Room Leader

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, LLC.; Enfield; On-site; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading nursery as a Room Leader and make a difference to the next generation! At Cedar House, you'll lead a dedicated team to provide exceptional education and care, promoting child welfare and development. Enjoy a supportive environment, competitive salary, and various benefits to enhance your career in early years education.

Benefits

Childcare discount of 50% for first child

Enhanced parental leave

20 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Professional development programme access

Financial and wellbeing benefits including 24/7 virtual GP appointments

Qualifications

• Experience working within an Early Years setting, ideally as a Room Leader or similar.
• Understanding of Safeguarding and Child Protection laws.
• Strong communication skills with children and adults.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, support, and inspire a team to deliver exceptional care.
• Ensure child welfare, health and safety, and safeguarding standards.
• Develop partnerships with colleagues, parents, and other professionals.

Skills

Passion for creating fun and inclusive learning environments

Ability to develop trust and strong working partnerships

Strong understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

Education

Full and relevant Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

Nursery – Cedar House Day Nursery and Preschool

Salary – £31,512.00 per annum (dependant on qualification/s and experience)

Location – Enfield, Middlesex

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.”

We’re looking for a Room Leader to join our Cedar House nursery.

The nursery is ideally located with easy to access transport links, including Bush Hill Park Rail Station being just a three-minute walk from the nursery with regular services heading to London Liverpool Street. Also, it’s near Enfield town centre, being approximately a two-minute drive away.

Our Benefits

• Starting £31,512.00 per annum
• Childcare discount of 50% for first child*
• Enhanced parental leave
• 20 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 Room Leader, you will lead, mentor, support, and inspire a team to deliver exception care and education, to help all children within the room to develop and meet their individual milestones. You will promote and ensure child welfare, health and safety, and safeguarding, and maintain strong partnerships with colleagues, parents, and other professionals to meet each child’s needs.

What we’re looking for

• Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification
• Previous experience working within an Early Years setting – ideally as a Room Leader, Nursery Nurse, Nursery Practitioner, Early Years Educator or similar
• Passion for creating fun and inclusive learning environments
• Strong understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
• 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
• Ability to use a variety of communication techniques with both children and adults

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!

If you experience any problems, please [e-mail] we will be happy to help.