Nursery Manager

Nursery Bright Horizons Bishops Stortford Day Nursery & Preschool

Salary 50000 per annum (dependent on qualification/s and experience)
Hours - Full time 40 hours Monday - Friday

Location Bishops Stortford CM23 2AF

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.

Our purpose-built nursery consists of six rooms three baby rooms two toddler rooms and a large pre-school room. The nursery boasts a beautiful baby terrace on the first floor for under twos along with a well designed garden consisting of a Forest and growing area along with an area for relaxing/creating

Our Benefits

• 50000 per annum

• Childcare discount of 100% for first child

• Competitive bonus of up to 6000 awarded in line with Ofsted inspection outcomes

• Enhanced parental leave

• 25 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 Nursery Manager you will lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education to all the children in your setting and through inspirational leadership drive employee engagement retention and performance. You will act as Designated Safeguarding Lead holding overall responsibility for the day to day running of the nursery and management of safeguarding policies. You will work in partnership with support office teams to recruit nurture and continuously develop high performing colleagues as well as identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE growth. You will optimise nursery performance revenue generation and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements.

What were looking for

• Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification

• Experience within an Early Years leadership role (ideally as a Nursery Manager Deputy Manager Assistant Manager or similar)

• Experience of participating with a regulatory inspection leading to a Good or Outstanding outcome

• Experience of developing high performance teams with effective regulatory compliance quality improvement delivery of high-quality pedagogy innovation and service excellence

• Confident decision maker with ability to support change and understanding of complex relationship between commercial and service excellence within a regulated setting

• 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

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

INDNMP

Bright Horizons is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post is subject to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS check which will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

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. Apply today!

We look forward to receiving your application!