Room Leader (Babies) (Welcome Bonus)

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, LLC.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Childcare discount 50%

Welcome bonus £1000 (T&Cs apply)

Pension and wellbeing benefits

Career development programme

Job summary

Bright Horizons Fulham Wharf Nursery is seeking a Room Leader to inspire a team and deliver high standards of care and education in the Baby room. The setting is 99 places in a traditional building with a large garden, near Imperial Wharf and Fulham Broadway.

We offer a salary starting from £32,864, a Welcome Bonus of £1,000, generous annual leave, childcare discount, pension, and extensive professional development.

Qualifications

• Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification.
• Experience in Early Years settings, preferably as Room Leader or similar.
• Passion for inclusive learning environments.
• Strong EYFS knowledge and safeguarding understanding.
• Ability to develop partnerships with colleagues and parents.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and support a team to provide high-quality care and education.
• Ensure child welfare, health and safety and safeguarding.
• Build strong partnerships with parents and professionals.
• Promote development of milestones in each child’s room.

Skills

EYFS knowledge

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Team mentoring

Education

Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

Nursery – Bright Horizons Fulham Wharf Day Nursery and Preschool Salary – Starting from £32864 per annum (dependent on qualification/s and experience) Location – Fulham, 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.”

We’re looking for a Room Leader to join our Fulham Wharf Nursery, situated just a five-minute walk from Imperial Wharf train station and Fulham Broadway tube. There are also several bus routes and easily-accessible parking. This role is for the Baby room. For this position, we are offering a Welcome Bonus of £1000 (T&C’s apply).

The 99-place setting is based within stunning traditional building with large windows to bring the outdoors in! Unusually for a London nursery, Fulham Wharf also features a large garden complete with cycling tracks!

Benefits

• Childcare discount of 50% for first child
• Enhanced parental leave 31 days annual leave, inclusive of 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.

Proud to be a Great Place to Work for 20 years.

At Bright Horizons, our culture is built on our commitment to Keeping Everyone Safe and providing world-class care and education, delivered by a world-class workforce. We believe our people’s potential is endless and with this in mind, we aspire to create an environment where our colleagues can thrive and accomplish the things they thought impossible. Bright Horizons has been recognised as a Great Place to Work by our employees and the Great Place to Work Institute for the last 13 years. We care passionately about what we do, and our HEART values and principles help us support one another in the work that we do each day. These are quite literally at the HEART of our organisation’s ethos and culture as it helps us to provide a working environment that supports professionalism, growth and diversity. We are passionate about our people’s ongoing learning and development. Our learning and leading with HEART framework supports each Bright Horizons colleague on the first steps of their leadership journey, whether that includes our 'World-Class Welcome' induction or our extensive ongoing training programme. Either way we want you to feel valued and invested in! Celebrating in the accomplishments of our people is an essential part of our culture. We believe in the power of “thank you” and throughout the year, in ways big and small, formal and informal, we show our appreciation for employees at all levels. We have many ways to acknowledge and celebrate our people, including our very popular “employee appreciation month”. This is a chance for everyone to share their gratitude to one another, across the whole company. Whether it is a “thank you” placed on our website, a chocolate pizza, team lunch or an ice cream van visit, it is our way of showing each other we care and appreciate everything we do. Each year, we have our annual 'Awards of Excellence' events; whether you are an award winner or cheering on a fellow team member, these formal award occasions are opportunities to come together and celebrate one another.

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