Leadership & Room Management
- Lead the day‑to‑day running of the room, ensuring a calm, organised, and joyful environment.
- Supervise, mentor, and motivate your room team — supporting their development and wellbeing.
- Lead planning sessions and champion high-quality teaching and learning practices.
Learning & Development
- Deliver and oversee outstanding, play‑based learning experiences in line with the EYFS.
- Ensure observations, assessments, and children’s learning journeys are accurate, meaningful, and up to date.
- Support children with individual needs, promoting inclusion and early intervention where needed.
Communication & Relationships
- Build positive, professional relationships with families — sharing progress, ideas, and celebrations.
- Communicate effectively within your team and across the wider nursery.
- Be a role model supporting colleagues and encouraging a collaborative atmosphere.
Safety & Safeguarding
- Ensure safeguarding procedures are followed at all times.
- Maintain health & safety, risk assessments, and cleanliness within your room.
- Support children with routines, personal care, and transitions to new rooms or school.
Environment & Creativity
- Lead the organisation and layout of learning areas, ensuring they are engaging, tidy, and well-resourced.
- Introduce creative ideas, themed activities, and enriching experiences for children and staff.
- Champion outdoor learning and sensory opportunities.
Operational Responsibilities
- Support rota planning, staff deployment, and daily room logistics.
- Attend leadership, planning, and training sessions.
- Contribute to nursery-wide events, improvements, and projects.
Safeguarding:
At our nursery, the safety and wellbeing of every child is our highest priority. We follow robust safeguarding procedures in line with current legislation and local guidance. Staff are regularly trained to recognise and respond to signs of all forms of neglect, abuse, extremism and exploitation. Safeguarding is central to everything we do, and safeguarding is the responsibility of every member of our team. We operate strict safer recruitment processes, including enhanced criminal record checks, references, and qualification verification, to ensure all staff are suitable to work with children. We work closely with parents, carers, and external agencies to ensure every child is safe, supported, and protected.
· Uphold the nursery’s safeguarding policies in line with OFSTED guidance.
· Report concerns promptly to the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL).
· An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is an essential requirement for this role.
· Knowledge of safeguarding legislation (e.g., Working Together to Safeguard Children).
· Awareness of confidentiality, information sharing and data protection in safeguarding contexts.
Pay: £14.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring programme
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Work Location: In person
