Pre-School Room Assistant Manager

Red Bus Nursery & Pre-School; Bristol; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading nursery as a Baby Room Assistant Manager in Bristol, where you will support the Room Manager in daily operations, ensuring high-quality care for children. With a focus on teamwork and professional development, this role offers a supportive environment and the opportunity for career growth within a flourishing company.

Benefits

Up to 36 days holiday per year

Paid time off over Christmas

Discounted childcare

Significant learning and development opportunities

Pension

Company and staff events

Lovely uniform options

Easy parking

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years post-qualifying experience required.
• Experience in a supervisory role or similar position preferred.
• Demonstrated great practice in child care.

Responsibilities

• Support the Room Manager in leading day-to-day operations.
• Ensure children are well cared for and engaged.
• Assist in staff development within the team.

Skills

Leadership skills

Child care

Teamwork

Education

Relevant Early Years qualification above Level 3

Job description

Salary: Salary up to £30,284 per year depending on experience

Experience Required:
2+ years

Location:
Flax Bourton,
Flax Bourton, Bristol, BS48 1UL, United Kingdom

Salary up to £30,284 per year depending on experience - FB

Baby Room Assistant Manager - full time

We are a beautiful setting based in Flax Bourton, easily accessible from so many places in Bristol, and Red Bus been operating as a company for 11 years. We continually strive to do things better and we just want Red Bus to be the best place ever for children and the best place for staff to work. Our Flax Bourton site has been open only for 12 months and it is flourishing. We already have an amazing established team but we are still growing so need to add some more lovely people to that.

We really value and take care of our staff team and they all work so well together, supporting each other and helping where they can. Our managers are open and listen and do what they can to make working for Red Bus the best experience.

All this has led to us being Ofsted Outstanding in our first two settings, no pressure though, we're rated that way because we just do things very well and all work together. We are very focused on quality but we are also very relaxed and love to have fun.

If you join Red Bus you will join a very strong community of like minded people who work together and who tend to stay working for us for a long time. We are growing and we have good solid, staffed teams, we just need more of you as more and more parents turn to Red Bus in difficult times. We are also supported by our own team of bank staff.

Come and join us ! Or even just come and talk to us to see if it is for you ....

We have a lovely position available in our Pre-School Room for an Assistant Manager.

We are looking for an individual who has a minimum two years post qualifying experience who will have demonstrated great practice and strong leadership skills.

About the role:

To support the Room Manager to lead and manage the staff team in the day to day operations to ensure the room runs smooth, children are well cared for, engaged and thrive, also to assist in the development of staff within the team This is a large baby area spread over interconnecting rooms.

This position would suit someone who is already in a similar or a Room Leader type position or someone who has some experience in a supervisory role and wants that next step.

What we offer you as an Assistant Manager:

· a child centric approach, we love the children to have as much fun and possible and to learn in the best environments

· a quality and professional environment. We are rated Outstanding with Ofsted and we help our Practitioners train and learn to this standard

· lovely people who work for Red Bus who are very team focused and work together

· a management team who listen and support and who importantly value the work our staff do in these important roles

· amazing environment for you and the children ! Fully resourced, continually changing, very much fun!

· significant learning and development opportunities for you to train and achieve your goals;

· a growing company with many career opportunities

· full time work on a 4.5 day week to give you a half day off

- up to 36 days holiday per year including 3 days paid time off over Christmas plus 8 bank holidays

· lovely uniform based on what the staff like, multiple options for indoors and outdoors and plenty of it

· easy parking

· company & staff events

· pension

· discounted childcare

We also pay an extra £1,000 per annum if you hold any of the following : SEND level 3, Forest School approved qualification, or any relevant Early Years qualification above Level 3. Fancy gaining more qualification with us ? We're here to help and support you.