Nursery Manager, UK

Bright Horizons UK; London; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Horizons UK is seeking a Nursery Manager for their Blackheath Day Nursery. This role involves leading a team to provide excellent care and education while managing all aspects of nursery operations. With a supportive environment driven by HEART principles, this position offers a chance to make a real difference in children's lives. The candidate should have a Level 3 qualification and experience in Early Years leadership.

Benefits

Childcare discount of 100% for first child

Enhanced parental leave

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Pension

Financial and wellbeing benefits

Professional development programme access

Qualifications

• Experience in Early Years leadership roles like Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager, or similar.
• Involvement in regulatory inspections.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead.
• Drive employee engagement and performance.

Skills

Leadership

Decision Making

Safeguarding Knowledge

Child Protection Understanding

Education

Level 3 Early Years Qualification

Job description

Nursery – Bright Horizons Blackheath Day Nursery and Preschool

Salary – £43,724 - £57,172 per annum (dependent on qualification/s and experience)

Location – Blackheath, London

Are you looking to work for an organisation whose culture is driven by our HEART principles – Honesty, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork? Where you can be yourself, feel supported, and help to make a difference to the next generation? Somewhere you can say: “I did that.”

Our lovely 74-place nursery is proud Ofsted rated ‘Good’. Our nursery offers fantastic space within our rooms, which provide outstanding opportunities and engaging surroundings. The nursery also features a fantastic outdoor garden space, complete with age appropriate equipment!

Our Benefits

• £43,724 - £57,172 per annum

• Childcare discount of 100% for first child

• Enhanced parental leave

• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and paid Christmas closure. Ability to also purchase additional leave*

• Pension

• Financial and wellbeing benefits including 24/7 virtual GP appointments, early access to wages, and more

• Professional development programme access for every stage of your career, including access to a careers coach

*Subject to T&Cs

The Role

As a Nursery Manager, you will lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education to all the children in your setting, and through inspirational leadership drive employee engagement, retention and performance. You will act as Designated Safeguarding Lead, holding overall responsibility for the day to day running of the nursery, and management of safeguarding policies. You will work in partnership with support office teams to recruit, nurture, and continuously develop high performing colleagues, as well as identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE growth. You will optimise nursery performance, revenue generation, and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements.

What we’re looking for

• Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification

• Experience within an Early Years leadership role (ideally as a Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager, Assistant Manager or similar)

• Experience of participating with a regulatory inspection, leading to a ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ outcome

• Experience of developing high performance teams, with effective regulatory compliance, quality improvement, delivery of high-quality pedagogy, innovation and service excellence

• Confident decision maker, with ability to support change and understanding of complex relationship between commercial and service excellence within a regulated setting

• Strong knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, Child Protection, and the wider legislative requirements for working with children

• Ability to develop trust and strong working partnerships with both colleagues and parents/ carers

We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all ages and backgrounds to apply. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants. Please note, due to our sector all roles are subject to an Enhanced DBS.

If you want to make a difference, with a company who has been voted Great Place to Work every year since 2006, apply today!

We look forward to receiving your application!

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