Room Leader

Kids Ltd.; Cheadle; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunities for progression

Long-standing friendly staff team

Large outdoor spaces

Great Place to Work Certified 2025/26

Ranked #1 UK Best Workplaces for Women

Crowned Nursery Group of the Year

Best Workplaces in Education &Training

80% Childcare Discount

Free breakfast, lunch, and healthy snl

KP Academy training

Enhanced leave for family

Wellbeing rewards and events

Long service awards

Birthday day off

Competitive salary and pension

Friendly central support team

Job summary

Kids Planet Heaton Mersey is seeking a Room Leader to lead a nursery room, ensuring high-quality early years care and education aligned with the EYFS. You will motivate your team, drive best practice, and support professional development while building strong relationships with children and families.

Join our family-run setting to enjoy progression opportunities, a supportive staff team, excellent training via KP Academy, and benefits like childcare discounts and wellbeing initiatives.

Qualifications

• Must be Level 3 qualified in UK recognised early years qualification.
• Excellent understanding of EYFS.
• Extensive safeguarding knowledge.
• Leadership experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a room within the nursery, ensuring high-quality care and education in line with the EYFS.
• Support and guide the team, fostering a positive, collaborative environment and promoting professional development.
• Build strong relationships with children and families, meeting individual needs and supporting learning.

Skills

Level 3 EY qualification

EYFS knowledge

Safeguarding knowledge

Leadership experience

Education

Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

How you'll make a difference as a Room Leader:

By leading and managing a room within the nursery, ensuring high-quality care and education in line with the EYFS.

Through supporting and guiding the team, fostering a positive, collaborative environment and promoting professional development.

Through building strong relationships with children and families, ensuring each child's individual needs are met and their learning is supported.

What a Room Leader needs

• Must be at least Level 3 qualified in a UK recognised early years qualification.
• Excellent understanding of EYFS.
• Extensive knowledge of safeguarding children.
• Leadership experience desirable.

Kids Planet is a proud family-run business, we do things with heart and we're passionate about giving every child the best possible start. No two settings are the same, but all of them are built around our shared values: care, curiosity, and a genuine love for early years.

Join Kids Planet Heaton Mersey as a Room Leader!

We're now looking for a Room Leader to join our team, someone who's ready to get stuck in, spark imaginations, and help children thrive.

Why Kids Planet Heaton Mersey?

• Opportunities for progression
• Long-standing friendly staff team
• Large outdoor spaces
• Great Place to Work Certified 2025/26
• Ranked #1 UK Best Workplaces for Women, for the second year running
• Crowned NMT's Large Nursery Group of the Year, for the second year running
• Awarded one of the UK's Best Workplaces in Education & Training by Great Place to Work 2026
• 80% Childcare Discount - T&Cs apply

What we offer our Room Leaders:

• Free breakfast, lunch, and healthy snacks to fuel your day!
• Accredited training through our awesome KP Academy and bespoke training platform.
• Enhanced leave for maternity, paternity, fertility, and adoption because family matters.
• Wellbeing goodies, staff rewards, and fun events all year round.
• Long service awards to celebrate your commitment.
• Take the day off on your birthday, it's all about you!
• Competitive salary, pension plan and enhanced holiday allowance.
• Friendly central support team always on hand to help.