Room Leader (Preschool)

Bright Horizons UK; London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Horizons UK is seeking a dedicated Room Leader for their Southgate nursery in London. The role involves leading a team to provide exceptional care and education for children, with a focus on their individual milestones and welfare. The company offers competitive benefits and a commitment to professional development, making it a great place to grow your career.

Benefits

50% discount for first child

Enhanced parental leave

20 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Pension plan

Access to professional development programs

Qualifications

• Experience as a Room Leader or in a similar role in Early Years settings.
• Strong understanding of Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
• Ability to develop strong partnerships with colleagues and parents.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team in delivering exceptional care.
• Promote child welfare and maintain health, safety, and safeguarding standards.
• Build strong partnerships with parents and other professionals.

Skills

Child Welfare

Early Years Education

Safeguarding

Communication

Education

Level 3 Early Years qualification

Job description

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 aim to 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!

Our Benefits

• 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!

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