daycare teacher Harlow, England
Job description
Nursery Manager (Job Share)
Little Lattons Nursery, Riddings Lane, Harlow, Essex, CM18 7HT
Salary: £30,000 - £36,000
Competitive salary dependent on experience.
*£3k retention allowance *subject to successfully completing a probation period
Hours: 40 hours a week with 30 days paid holiday including national bank holidays, which includes a whole week break over Christmas.
Little Lattons Nursery are seeking to appoint a nursery manager who is passionate about inspiring and leading a team to deliver outstanding care and education to children, and want to be part of a high performing nursery management team. Ideal candidates would have strong leadership and communication skills with a commitment to helping children thrive, motivating them to play, learn and grow by providing them with the best start in life. Applicants must have previous experience of leading a nursery team to deliver exceptional care to all children in the setting through a warm and positive approach with lots of creative ideas.
Essential requirements:
· Early years education and care qualification to at least NVQ Level 3 or equivalent, with preference for degree qualified practitioners
· Experience in a Nursery manager capacity
· A solid understanding of child protection/safeguarding issues and procedures.
· Enhanced DBS check
· Understanding of special educational needs and equality of opportunity
· Paediatric first-aid and food hygiene trained
· Ability to communicate effectively both in writing and orally
· Competent PC user (word processing, spreadsheets, emails)
Little Lattons Nursery offer a unique chance to be part of a friendly and supportive team. We are looking for a passionate and ambitious Nursery Manager whose primary objective is to ensure that their setting has the right staff, culture, policies, and resources to deliver the high standards of childcare and early years education.
You will lead our nursery teams to deliver outstanding care to all the children in our setting
· Through your inspirational leadership drive employee engagement, retention, and performance in the nursery
· Role model and mentor your nursery team to ensure the highest quality early childhood practice and experience for all children, including children with special education needs and/or disabilities
· Holding responsibility for the day to day running of the nursery and management of safeguarding and child protection policies - monitoring and improving practice and behaviours that underpin our high performance safety culture
· Engage with the Local Authority to understand the local offer, to support practice in all areas of the nursery
· Builds an effective parent engagement strategy, creating links between home and the setting.
· Compliance with all regulatory requirements
Little Lattons Nursery has a dedicated team that works hard to reach high standards in everything they do and this is further embedded through successful relationships with parents, the local community and the other local schools within NET. At NET Academies Harlow we believe in the future development of our employees, our staff development programme has meant staff are successful in progressing the next stage of their career.
Additional benefits working at Little Lattons Nursery:
· 50% childcare discount if places available
· Individual personal development programme for all staff
· A highly motivated staff team
· A caring and happy learning environment
· High expectations and excellent behaviour
· Personalised staff well-being programme
· Access to a dedicated Early Years consultant, who will provide ongoing support.
Job Description for Nursery Manager
Reports to: Head of School
Job Purpose
The purpose of the Nursery Manager is to bring their expertise and experience to provide excellent support and teaching to our children. In this role you are the key person in managing the experience of children and their parents. You will have a welcoming and warm manner and build confidence in our families. The Nursery Manager must be passionate about helping children to love learning and feel secure in a warm and inclusive environment.
Main responsibilities:
- To deliver and ensure a high standard of learning, development and care for children aged 0-5 years
- To manage the day to day activities of the setting
- To ensure that the nursery is a safe environment for children, staff and others
- To developing partnerships with parents/carers to increase involvement in their child’s development
- To manage other staff within the nursery
- To be responsible for any tasks delegated by the Head of School
Main activities:
- Overall day to day management responsibility for the preschool nursery
- To be responsible for the efficient running of the preschool nursery and overall delivery of a high-quality service
- To ensure that the preschool nursery provides a safe, caring, stimulating educational environment, both indoors and outdoors, at all times
- To ensure that the preschool nursery plans an appropriate play based Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum that enables children to make individual progress
- To ensure the preschool nursery meets Ofsted requirements at all times
- To manage, supervise and support the preschool nursery staff
- To undertake and assign designated officer roles, including safeguarding
- To work with other professionals in the local area for the benefit of children and families
- To ensure all staff understand and work to preschool nursery policies and procedures, including how to deal with child protection issues appropriately and how to respond to incidents, accidents, complaints and emergencies
- Take responsibility for planning, which ensures each child is working towards the early learning goals
- To organise and participate in the key person system
- To conduct staff appraisals and supervisions as appropriate and to identify staff training
- To ensure all records are properly maintained in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Trust
- To liaise closely with parents/carers, informing them about the nursery and its curriculum, exchanging information about children’s progress and encouraging parents’ involvement
- To work in partnership with senior management to update and review the self-evaluation and improvement plans
- To undertake any other reasonable duties as directed, in accordance with the preschool aims and objectives
- To support the wellbeing of all children and staff
- To maintain staff ratios and manage staff deployment to ensure staff holidays and absences are covered at all times
- To help, support and implement new initiatives at the nursery setting
- Support the development of good practice with regards to special needs and inclusion
- Manage the day-to-day operation in order to ensure the health and safety of the children, their parents and carers, the team and any visitors to the nursery
- Be fully aware of all emergency and security procedures
What our staff say about working at Little Lattons Nursery:
“I feel like it is an incredibly supportive working atmosphere where people want the best for one another and go out of their way to do their best for both staff and pupils. It is child centre nursery which is why I particularly love coming to work.”
“Staff and children feel that we are all part of one family that help and support each other.”
“I very much enjoy working for Little Lattons because I feel supported, valued and work with a great group of people.”
Potential applicants are both welcome and encouraged to visit the nursery. Please contact the school office by telephone on 01279 444 840.
NET Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of the Safer Recruitment process all shortlisted applicants will be subject to social media checks. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 20-40 per week
Salary: £30,000.00-£36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Childcare
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
School type:
- Day nursery
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Harlow, CM18 7HT: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Childcare: 1 year (preferred)
- Management: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 31/08/2023
Reference ID: https://www.mynewterm.com/jobs/583349932/EDV-2023-LLN-70225
