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About the Role
Join our Oak Lane Day Nursery as a Third in Charge, where you will lead, mentor, and inspire a team to deliver exceptional care and education. You will play a key role in promoting child welfare, health, safety, and safeguarding, while fostering strong partnerships with colleagues, parents, and professionals to meet each child's unique needs. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant difference to the next generation within an organization driven by HEART principles: Honesty, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, support, and inspire a team to deliver exceptional care and education.
- Promote and ensure child welfare, health and safety, and safeguarding.
- Maintain strong partnerships with colleagues, parents, and other professionals to meet each child’s needs.
- Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead when required.
- Promote the nursery to support retention and ongoing occupancy growth.
- Engage with the Local Authority to understand the local offering and support practice across all areas of the nursery.
Requirements
- Previous experience working within an Early Years setting, ideally as a Third in Charge, Room Leader, Early Years Educator, or similar.
- Confident decision maker with previous experience providing support and leadership to others.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, Child Protection, and the wider legislative requirements for working with children.
- Ability to develop trust and strong working partnerships with both colleagues and parents/carers.
- Ability to use a variety of communication techniques with both children and adults.
- All roles are subject to an Enhanced DBS.
Skills
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Team Support
- Child Welfare
- Health and Safety
- Safeguarding
- Partnership Building
- Communication
Location
- Twickenham
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Dependent on qualification/s and experience
Education Level
- Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification
Salary/Compensations
- £34,132.80 per annum
Benefits
- 50% childcare discount for first child
- Enhanced parental leave
- 20 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and paid Christmas closure
- Ability to purchase additional leave
- Pension
- 24/7 virtual GP appointments
- Early access to wages
- Professional development programme access
- Access to a careers coach
About the Company
- Our organisation's culture is driven by our HEART principles – Honesty, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork.
- Bright Horizons Oak Lane Nursery is rated Good by Ofsted.
- Bright Horizons has been voted Great Place to Work every year since 2006.
- Proud to be a Great Place to Work for 20 years.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all ages and backgrounds to apply.
- We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.
- Bright Horizons is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
- This post is subject to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, which will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.