Purpose of the Role
The role of the Nursery Manager is to ensure all children attending Star Bright Day Nursery receive high quality care, are kept safe and are provided with planned and stimulating play experiences which meet their individual needs and support all aspects of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
To plan and deliver effective management of the nursery, in accordance with the nursery operational plan and long term plan
To ensure that first and foremost, safeguarding children and staff is our utmost priority.
To promote and maintain our reputation for providing exemplary practice.
To manage and continuously improve the delivery of the curriculum - the Early Years Foundation Stage.
To ensure the director is kept up to date with the running of the nursery
To ensure the quality of care in maintained at the highest of standards.
To be the overall lead for health and safety
To support, evaluate and lead the staff team to maintain and enhance outstanding practice
To provide a wide range of general administration and support duties.
To be the named Manager of the setting.
To be responsible for liaising with OFSTED, the local authority, and any other agencies
Actively promote and support charities
Working with HR to ensure the nursery is fully recruited with suitable qualified people, encouraging a diverse workforce, who are comprehensively inducted, trained and supported; the workforce plans are in line with occupancy, and all nursery teams are fully compliant with their regulatory training, company induction and required development programmes at all times.
Lead and role model best practice and high standards of behaviour within the staff team, deliver relevant training to practitioners, and continually reflect on practice to identify and drive continuous improvement to deliver high quality care and education for all children and staff.
Provide exceptional organisational leadership of nursery teams – promote Star Bright Family, culture, values, and behaviours, to drive improvement in customer and client satisfaction and employee engagement, retention, and performance in the nursery, making a positive contribution to service excellence
Support the implementation of the Quality, People and Growth action plans across the nursery setting, to ensure alignment with company strategic objectives and ensure all routine practices, procedures and policies are implemented securely and consistently across the nursery setting.
In line with Star Bright Day Nursery UK standards for pedagogy, implement Star Bright Day Nurseries curriculum to ensure a child-centred approach to operating all aspects of the nursery, and ensure the observation and planning process meets the needs of all children in line with the Quality Assurance Framework
Implement and manage Keeping Everyone Safe policies and procedures and continuously demonstrate, monitor, and improve the practices and behaviours that underpin a high performing safety culture
To be the lead Designated Safeguarding Lead at the nursery and hold overall responsibility for the day to day management of safeguarding and child protection policies in the nursery.
To lead by example and drive the culture of Safeguarding Children and promoting professional staff behaviour.
In collaboration with HR and Director, complete effective annual appraisals for all staff, and contribute to succession planning, identification and delivery of relevant training, and additional requirements for personal development plans including coaching and mentoring for all staff
Working with HR, identify succession plans for the nursery team and nurture, create and continuously develop a pipeline of high performing practitioners and room leaders, building the strongest talent pool in the sector
Working with the Director to identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE (Full Time Equivalent) growth in the nursery (FTE would be calculated as the number of hours attended divided by the total number of hours available. For example, a child attending for 4 hours a day at a nursery with 10 core hours a day would have an FTE of 4/10 = 0.4).
Commercial delivery of the nursery performance, optimising revenue generation and costs efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements to deliver and exceed the annual nursery budgeted EBITDA (EBITDA = Net Income + Interest + Taxes + Depreciation + Amortization)
Engage with the Local Authority and understand the local offer to support the practice in all areas of the nursery
Be responsible for fee collections, invoices and all areas pertaining to finance.
To ensure the nursery complies with all relevant legislation, plus local authority and OFSTED requirements.
To ensure the provision is of the highest quality at all times and strives to attain the highest ratings such as OFSTED “outstanding”.
To manage the nursery’s Quality programme.
To ensure that the nursery target occupancy levels are met – in conjunction with the Director.
To ensure that there is a Parent Carer Partner committee working with the management team.
Ensure that all duties are performed efficiently and within prescribed timescales and in accordance with the nurseries wide range of revised policies and practices.
Demonstrate at all times, understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities and diversity in the workplace, treating all children, staff, students, colleagues, visitors and parents fairly and respectfully , irrespective of age, ability, religion, race, gender, sexuality, disability, belief or background.
Qualifications/requirements:
Full and relevant level 3 qualification (essential)
12 hours paediatric first aid and first aid at work (essential)
Relevant Lead safeguarding/child protection training undertaken and a willingness to update training regularly (essential)
Evidence of continuous professional development
Pay: £30,627.61-£40,658.93 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
