Nursery Manager - Putney

Best Start Recruitment; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension enrolment

Hot lunch

Training & development

Job summary

Best Start Recruitment seeks a Nursery Manager for a Putney setting. This full-time role offers a salary around £45k with an annual performance bonus.

The nursery operates 51 weeks a year with one-week Christmas closure, and hours are 7.45am–6:30pm, four days per week with one day off. 4 weeks annual leave plus extra leave with service, sick leave policy after year one, pension, and development support are provided.

Responsibilities

• Ensure excellent standards across all areas of the setting are maintained and developed to provide the best outcomes for our children and families
• Ensure and enable excellent delivery of all aspects of the EYFS curriculum in a creative and inspiring way
• Ensure the Nursery ethos of helping every child “learn well” is embedded and executed consistently throughout the Nursery and understood by all staff
• Strong people leadership and role modelling to create a fantastic culture and working environment for the team
• Core focus on building occupancy - as a new setting this is critical
• Strong partnership with parents and external agencies to support every child's learning, development and well being
• Ensure all policies and procedures embedded in the setting; with safeguarding being paramount
• Oversee all aspects of Safeguarding

Job description

Nursery Manager - Putney

Full time

Salary £45k + annual performance bonus

Small friendly nursery!

The Nursery is open 51 weeks per year, with 1 week closure at Christmas

Working hours: 7.45am - 6:30pm, 4 days per week with 1 day off per week

Annual Leave: 4 weeks paid annual leave, plus 1 additional day with every year of continuous employment (up to a maximum of 1 additional week)

Sick Leave: 1 week paid sick leave after 1 year of employment

Other Benefits: Pension enrolment, a very robust and supportive leadership team, great supportive working environment, training & development and a hot lunch!

The Manager will be responsible for all aspects regarding the overall running of the Nursery. This role is super-numery and as such the Manager is not counted in ratios. The Manager is supported by a super-Numery Deputy and Area Director.

Roles & Responsibilities

• i) Ensure excellent standards across all areas of the setting are maintained and developed to provide the best outcomes for our children and families
• ii) Ensure and enable excellent delivery of all aspects of the EYFS curriculum in a creative and inspiring way
• iii) Ensure the Nursery ethos of helping every child “learn well” is embedded and executed consistently throughout the Nursery and understood by all staff
• iv) Strong people leadership and role modelling to create a fantastic culture and working environment for the team
• v) Core focus on building occupancy - as a new setting this is critical
• ) Strong partnership with parents and external agencies to support every child's learning, development and well being
• v) Ensure all policies and procedures embedded in the setting; with safeguarding being paramount
• vi) Oversee all aspects of Safeguarding

Nursery Manager - £45+ annual performance bonus