Nursery Manager

Role: Ref 11743 - Nursery Manager(Dual)

Location:Langport and Taunton Somerset.

Salary:36800 per annum(negotiable)

Contract/Hours:Permanent Full Time 40 hours a week. Your time will be split between the two services.

Closing date: Midnight on Thursday 21^st August 2025

Benefits:

• 28/30 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays

• 60% discount on childcare within our nurseries and clubs

• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.

• Flexible maternity adoption and paternity packages

• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover

• Blue Light Card eligibility with 15000 national retailers discounts
  

Were thrilled that youre considering a career with Spring. Spare us five minutes and well tell you what you need to know

About Spring

Spring offers award-winning childcare services as part of the national charity Action for Children. Its our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK that is accessible to all. We are focused on enabling young people to learn have fun and make friends in our bright engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team. Join us and you can look forward to:

• A kind caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing both physical and mental.
• Flexible working wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
• Lots of opportunities for training learning development including gaining qualifications.
• Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.

About the nurseries:

The Hollies

Spring The Hollies is a 50-place nursery based in the centre of Taunton which was purpose built offering three well-resourced rooms and a fantastic spacious outdoor space for children aged 3-months to 5-years all of which have been completely renovated in September 2024.

The nursery has a beautiful large outdoor space for the children and the Spring The Hollies team prides themselves on creating child led opportunities for babies through to rising fives helping them to learn develop confidence and have fun. The team are dedicated to ensuring all children have the best experience.

The Levels

Spring the Levels is a 36-place nursery based in The Levels Childrens Centre in Langport that offers affordable high-quality childcare alongside its sister settings. The nursery is set in a beautiful rural setting within a designated childrens centre; where communication between parents staff health visitors and children are paramount. Heuristic play both indoors and outdoors is encouraged as we support scaffold and enhance each childs interests whilst ensuring that close links with Huish Epicopi school and local schools support the transitions for both the children and their families. A creative wraparound deck and newly refurbished outdoor area makes the nursery light open and inviting.

About the role

Were looking for an enthusiastic and pro-active Nursery Manager to join and lead our two teams at Spring The Hollies and Spring The Levelsyou will oversee the two.

You will be providing leadership direction and support to both Nurseries across these two locations.

While the two Nurseries and teams differ in scale and workload the existing Deputy Managers who are well established are well-equipped to provide support in your role.

The Levels and The Hollies are 40 minutes apart and you will be travelling between the two to spend 3 days a week with one and 2 days a week with another according to the needs of the business (although these hours could change). You will need to be very flexible in your attitude to working hours.

You will provide a safe caring fun and stimulating environment. Youll provide the highest standard of leadership and form strong and supportive relationships not only with your team but also to our parents and children.

Youll be responsible for the day-to-day running of the nurseries and work to develop oversee and manage high quality child centred provision of early years education and day care services for children aged from birth to five years. Providing a direct management of your teams of staff together youll promote and establish a working environment which the emotional physical social psychological physical developmental and educational well-being of children is paramount.

Some other key responsibilities of your role will be.

• Actively engaging in marketing and advertising in order to develop an excellent reputation for the nursery.
• Supporting the development of an innovative approach to childrens learning and play that is demonstrated by teams working well together within the setting.
• Undertaking the Designated Safeguarding Lead and Registered Manager role in relation to Ofsted registration
• Overseeing the recording and reporting of planning observation and progression for all children including a full and thorough assessment of the setting against the Early Years Foundation Stage framework.

Lets talk about you.

In the role of Dual Nursery Manager were ideally looking for someone who has:

• Minimum level 3 qualification in Childcare or Early Years.
• Level 2 in Mathematics or be willing to undertake this within 2 years of employment
• Leadership and management experience in a childcare setting.
• Experience of working in a senior role within a nursery setting or centre working with children aged 0 to 5 years and their families.
• Leading a staff team including supervision work allocation assessment or training and professional development.
• Knowledge andunderstandingof the EYFS Ofstedrequirementsand relevant currentlegislation.
• Understanding of child protection processes safeguarding and working with vulnerable children.
• Commitment to inclusive and non-discriminatory working practice with children families colleagues and the community.
• You must be a driver to be able to travel between the two services regularly.

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey wed love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.

Good luck! We cant wait to hear from you.

Contact: If you need support with your application please contact our Recruitment Team at quoting the above Reference.

Well be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity Equality and Inclusion

At Spring Oscars were dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

We arecommittedto safer recruitment practices to protectourservice users; therefore all applicants are expected tohaveanunderstandingof andcommitmenttosafeguarding best-practice.

Dont meet every single requirement

If youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with the job description wed love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role or another role within the Action for Children family.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for thisrole.

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details CV Supporting Statement & Information Equality & Diversity Submission & Declaration please refer to the Job Description when applying.

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.

Talent Pool:Were sure youve got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If youre unsuccessful this time around wed like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if youd rather we didnt do that.

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