Nursery Manager

Salary: £42,000 – £54,000 per year

Our client’s nursery is a small nursery it has 26 places and is set in a secret garden in central London. The nursery is a unique community nursery established for nearly 60 years. It is a registered charity. Our client’s nursery provides a special setting on a conservation site, boasting a wild and magical outdoor garden space, in an historic part of central London. They pride themselves on providing children with the opportunity to discover and develop their skills in an extensive outdoor setting with a strong focus on child-led play-based learning which is underpinned through forest school and environmental activities.

The Nursery Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the nursery setting, ensuring the daily delivery of high quality and innovative early years practice that reflects the EYFS curriculum and pedagogy of the nursery.

We are looking for an experienced Manager to help lead, motivate and inspire the nursery team to deliver and promote exemplary early years education. This role requires a strong, communicative, caring and experienced leader who has a passion to continuously enhance and develop the setting to reflect the interests and needs of the families and local community.

You will be responsible for: Deputy Manager, SENCO, Early Years Practitioners

Your responsibilities will include:

• Further improving the quality of care and education throughout the setting.

• Adhering to, and support all team members to understand and follow, the legal

requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

• Arranging regular staff meetings as appropriate including agendas and minutes. Supervise

and support all members of the setting team in their day-to-day duties. Carrying out

inductions, appraisals and reviews, training and development and individual supervisions.

• Being responsible for all duties associated with the management of the setting e.g.

maintaining records on the children and their families, ordering equipment, maintaining an

inventory, keeping personnel records, ensuring other records are adequately maintained

and updated: the daily attendance register, accident and incident records.

• Effective staff recruitment and retention following best practice.

• Promoting the high standards of the setting at all times to parents, staff and visitors.

• Maintaining high occupancy levels through site visits and promotion of the setting.

• Leading regular development updates and meetings with the Management Committee.

• Reviewing and implementing policies and procedures.

• Working closely with Treasurer and accountant to monitor expenditure and generate

financial projections.

• Fundraising through grants, events and other initiatives.

The successful Nursery Manager will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.