Room Leader (Preschool)

Bright Horizons; London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Horizons Southgate Day Nursery is seeking a passionate Room Leader to join their team in London. In this role, you will lead and inspire a team to provide exceptional care and education for preschool children, ensuring their development and safety. With a strong emphasis on creating an inclusive environment, you will mentor staff and collaborate closely with parents and professionals. Benefits include enhanced parental leave, childcare discounts, and a comprehensive professional development program.

Benefits

Childcare discount of 50% for first child

Enhanced parental leave

20 days annual leave plus bank holidays and paid Christmas closure

Pension

Financial and wellbeing benefits including 24/7 virtual GP appointments

Professional development programme access

Qualifications

• Experience working within an Early Years setting; ideally as a Room Leader, Nursery Nurse, or similar.
• Understanding of Safeguarding and Child Protection requirements.
• Ability to mentor and support team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team to deliver exceptional care and education.
• Promote child welfare, health and safety, and safeguarding.
• Maintain strong partnerships with colleagues, parents, and other professionals.

Skills

Passion for creating fun and inclusive learning environments

Strong understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

Strong knowledge of Safeguarding

Ability to develop trust with colleagues and parents

Communication techniques with children and adults

Education

Full and relevant Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

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Nursery – Bright Horizons Southgate Day Nursery and Preschool

Salary – Starting from £31,512 per annum (dependent on qualification/s and experience)

Location – Southgate, 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 Southgate nursery situated in Southgate, London and is located a 3-minute walk from Southgate tube. This is for the Preschool room.

The 99 place setting occupies a fabulous fully refurbished traditional building where great emphasis is placed upon big windows, to maximise the feeling of light and space within the building, the aimto bring the outdoors in! They also offer extracurricular Boogie Mites and myHappymind programmes, and unusually for a London nursery, it has a large garden at the rear where children can play sports and enjoy all sorts of outdoor activities!

• 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
• Shift: 40 hours over 5 days

*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!

INDCLH

We look forward to receiving your application!