Are you looking for a new challenge? Want to work for a nursery that cares about your personal development, where you will be supported to achieve your goals. This is the right nursery for you.
Ofsted 2025 " Staff feel really well supported by leaders and talk about the inclusive and constructive culture when receiving feedback regarding their personal practice "
Benefits -
· free childcare – from day one with us!
· Extra little “thank you” gifts for special occasions.
· Christmas bonus up to £300
· Summer BBQ and Christmas party.
· Length of service awards and gifts – recognising your loyalty!
· Closed for Christmas & New Year – enjoy the holidays with your loved ones!
· Closed for last week in August – finish the summer in style!
· Free staff uniform.
· Refer a friend bonus up to £500 per referral – no limits on the number of referrals you can make!
· Wellbeing ambassador in our setting, to look after your health and wellbeing
· An open-door management policy – you should always feel like can come and talk to us.
· Access to various training and courses and ongoing progression and development opportunities.
· Enhanced SMART pension scheme for all staff - for comfortable future retirement!
Job Description: Deputy Manager (Early Years Educator) £500 Bonus after probation.
Responsible to: Nursery Manager
We are seeking an enthusiastic, childcare professional for our beautiful nursery as deputy manager, this is a shared role and will be for 3 days per week.
Key areas
To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children attending the Nursery.
To support the manager to implement a quality EYFS curriculum ensuring stimulating and varied play and learning opportunities for all the children specific to their individual needs.
To ensure the rooms are running effectively, promote team work; including ensuring the staff complete appropriate activities, organise breaks
To ensure the safety and well-being of all the children.
Ensure understanding and appropriate implementation of the nursery’s Safeguarding Children Policy.
To ensure the room leaders are effectively running the rooms, offering a challenging enjoyable EYFS experience
To fully support the key person system and ensure ratios are adhered to at all times
To complete staff rotas for each room, to ensure there is adequate staffing to ratios
To give support to other staff in the Nursery
Support the manager in delivering coaching, feedback, staff supervisions and team meetings where necessary
Duties and responsibilities
Provide a stimulating play rich environment, where resources can be accessed appropriately by all children and activities differentiated to ensure the needs of all children who attend are met;
Work as part of a team leading and supporting other nursery staff and volunteers;
To liaise with where necessary the Designated Safeguarding Lead to ensure children are fully safeguarded;
Implement an effective positive behaviour policy, ensuring consistency and taking into account children’s levels of understanding and stages of development;
Support nursery induction through home visits, selection of key person roles and settling in procedures;
Work with parents to ensure children’s individual needs are met; reporting on the development, progress and attainment of children through termly parent discussions;
Support the managers to plan and implement the Early Years Foundation Stage Learning outcomes appropriately to meet the needs of all children through differentiation of tasks;
Be able to set clear targets, based on prior attainment, for children’s learning;
To keep appropriate and efficient records, accident, incident forms, medication forms etc, integrating formative and summative assessment into short and long term planning;
Support children to develop independence and self help skills ensuring intimate care policies are appropriate and are followed;
To have particular regard to the individual needs of each child who attends the nursery ensuring that that each child’s needs are met and they are able to fully participate in the session;
Support the serving of food and refreshments to children;
Take responsibility with other staff members for following the nursery’s registration and departure procedures;
Support with the setting out and clearing up of equipment;
Organise resources for the nursery and consider any further resource needs and their effective placement;
Build effective professional relationships with colleagues, parents, carers and other agencies eg speech and language
Keep appropriate, accurate and efficient records to support with children’s play and well-being;
Ensure you are fully are aware of all welfare requirements, and that all procedures for child protection and safeguarding are understood and effectively implemented;
To liaise with the Special Educational Needs Coordinator regarding early identification and application of policy to support children with additional needs;
Communicate and co-operate with specialists from outside agencies;
Attend training and keep up to date with changes to welfare requirements, planning for children’s learning and safeguarding procedures ensuring understanding and implementation;
Attend meetings which relate to the nursery’s management, administration or organisation including open days, weekends or evenings as required;
Show a strong commitment to training and ongoing professional development, keeping up to date with recent developments and initiatives relevant to current practice;
Participate in the supervision and appraisal system of own performance;
Undertake any other duties as may be reasonably required by the Manager.
Pay: £17.00-£17.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Application question(s):
- Tell me about your previous experience as a Deputy Manager
Experience:
- deputy manager: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
- full and relevant childcare qualification to level 3 (required)
Work Location: In person
