Nursery Room Leader – Babies Room

Monkeypuzzlehartleywintney; Wokingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nursery is seeking an enthusiastic Babies Room Leader to join their team in Wokingham. This full-time role involves supervising children, mentoring staff, and ensuring high standards of care and education. The position offers competitive pay and opportunities for professional growth within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Highly competitive pay

Continued opportunities for professional growth

Wellbeing-focused leadership team

Bonus day of holiday on your birthday

Loyalty & performance rewards

Recently refurbished staff facilities

Paid lunch breaks

Refer a friend scheme benefit of up to £250

Free on-site parking

Qualifications

• Minimum Level 3 Early Years qualification required.
• At least 2 years’ experience as a Nursery Practitioner or similar.
• Sound knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and support the needs of the children.
• Mentor playroom-based staff and students.
• Ensure the effective implementation of the company’s keyperson system.

Skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Creativity

Teamwork

Education

Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionateBabies Room Leader to join our amazing nursery team. As a Room Leader, you will be key to the development and growth of the children at the setting, the smooth running of the Babies room and a role model for your team.

• Highly competitive pay
• Continued opportunities for professional growth
• A wellbeing-focused leadership team
• Bonus day of holiday on your birthday
• Loyalty & performance rewards
• Recently refurbished staff facilities
• Paid lunch breaks
• Loyalty and performance rewards
• Refer a friend scheme benefit of up to £250
• Free on-site parking

Hours & salary:

• This role is full time: 7:30am – 6:30pm (40 hours with paid lunch breaks) condensed hours over 4 days with a day off during the week.
• From £30,000 to £31,500 (dependent on experience & qualifications)

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise, engage with, support, and meet the needs of the children.
• Bring a positive attitude and creative ideas that inspire children to learn and staff to perform.
• Support, supervise and mentor playroom-based staff and students.
• Develop and maintain warm and professional relationships with the children, parents/carers, colleagues and visitors.
• Deploy staff effectively to ensure the required high standards of the nursery are maintained.
• Help prepare and join the children in engaging (and sometimes messy) activities.
• Be willing to sing, dance, dress up, and take the occasional trip to the moon
• Ensure the effective implementation of the company’s keyperson system and allocate key children appropriately.
• Ensure that all children are kept safe, and that staff are confident to follow safeguarding procedures.
• Implement and support others in delivering the EYFS in line with current practice and guidelines.
• Promote a high standard of quality within the nursery, including practice, environment and resources to meet the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
• Be proactive and responsive, and react to children’s interests
• Ensure appropriate planning and assessment is in place and is accurately maintained by the appropriate staff.
• Support the development of good practice in relation to special educational needs and inclusion.
• Assume additional management responsibilities as and when required.
• In conjunction with the management team identify, address and support in individual training needs and self-development such as supervisions and appraisals.

The duties and responsibilities included in this job specification are not exhaustive or restrictive and can be reviewed at any time in the future, changes and other duties deemed relevant to this post may be added.

Essential skills & qualifications expected as a Room Leader:

• Minimum full and relevant Level 3 Early Years qualification.
• Child Protection.
• Background in working to the Early Years Foundation Stage framework.
• At least 2 years’ recent experience working as a Nursery Practitioner or similar.
• Experience of working and communicating with parents and carers.
• Ability to communicate confidently with adults and children.
• Good organisational skills.
• Able to work well within a team and under pressure.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Generate creative ideas to inspire learning.
• Ability to write clear objective observations.
• Excellent planning and organizing.
• Ability to write reports and keep clear and accurate records.
• Working with and supporting parents.
• Sound knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.
• Confident knowledge of Safeguarding processes and procedures.
• Able to conduct child observations and assessments with a strong understanding of child development.
• Exceptional knowledge of the current Early Years Inspection Framework.

Any necessary training will be provided through our engaging training platform.

• Previous Room Leader experience within an Early Years setting.
• Working with outside agencies.

About us:

As part of Monkey Puzzle Hartley Wintney, you will be joining our caring, welcoming and supportive team. We have been open since 2016 and are situated in a beautiful leafy setting just outside the picturesque village of Hartley Wintney. We are currently going through an exciting redevelopment project which includes refurbished staff room and kitchen, the creation of a new room for our youngest babies, and an extension of our two gardens to include new natural learning environments for the children.