Overview
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Nursery and Care Club Manager to oversee our childcare programmes. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating a safe, engaging, and nurturing environment for children, ensuring that all activities promote learning and development. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead a team, organise activities, and foster positive relationships with children and their families.
Main Purpose: Responsible for the day to day running of a Nursery and Care Club. Administer, maintain up to date records of resources and accurate financial records, manage online registers.
▪ To provide leadership and management for the setting.
▪ To be responsible for the delivery of outstanding care of all children and ensure that learning opportunities are met
▪ To enable the child to develop in different context: social, emotional, physical and intellectual through play
▪ To be a role-model, lead and supervise the settings staff
▪ To report any concerns or problems to the Regional Manager
▪ To lead a strong routine and make sure it is followed, along with Policies and Procedures and Working Manuals
▪ To lead the planning and resourcing of activities. To ensure the setting has a good variety of activities on offer to stimulate the children and when necessary adhere to the EYFS.
▪ To attend all courses relevant to enhance your career and benefit the setting. To encourage staff to book training through Performance Management.
To reflect on daily practice and continuously develop and implement the setting quality improvement action plan
Key Responsibilities
▪ Be responsible for the programme of activities ensuring they are interesting, valuable and appropriate to the children using the facilities by providing a variety of play and learning opportunities and identifying and accommodating changing needs.
▪ Be responsible for the safety and well-being of setting users through checking equipment, undertaking first line child protection measures and organising activities appropriate to the users at any given time.
▪ Ensuring parents, carers and other visitors are made to feel welcome when visiting the setting and they receive appropriate information and advice.
▪ Maximising the learning value of the activities by planning and evaluating activities.
▪ Be responsible for the compliance of required documentation, for example registration of children, Ofsted requirements and safeguarding.
▪ Be responsible for all aspects of finance, for example managing the financial software ensuring that places are booked and parents / carers charged accurately.
▪ Be responsible for the collection, recording and reconciliation of payments.
▪ Ensuring financial systems are maintained for annual audit.
▪ Ability to understand and liaise with a range of stakeholders.
▪ You will be leading planning meetings and engage in discussions and decision making about children’s next learning steps.
▪ Prepare resources and set up for each session ensuring quality and quantities are adequate.
▪ Use knowledge and understanding of the curriculum, and the age range, to teach individual and groups of children according to the objectives agreed at the planning stage.
▪ Make regular assessments of progress for key worker group on the pro forma agreed.
▪ Liaise with parents on an informal basis as necessary and attend and report to parents at consultation evenings.
▪ Training will be given to ensure you are fully aware of the systems in place
Pay due regard for safe and effective transfer of all children to other adults e.g. lunchtime staff, parents and carers. Ensure that any necessary information about incidents, behaviour to these adults as necessary.
Pay: £29,213.00-£34,154.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
