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About the Role

Join a brand new, boutique nursery in Barnes as an experienced Room Leader. Help launch a calm, attachment-informed setting from the ground up, leading a team and setting the standard for care. This is a unique opportunity to shape a nursery before it opens, influencing its operations, team development, and core values.

Responsibilities

• Lead, motivate, and support a team of practitioners, modeling outstanding early years practice and mentoring staff.
• Ensure the room is well-organized and welcoming, monitoring practice quality and driving continuous improvement.
• Lead high-quality teaching through play, planning experiences that reflect each child's interests and developmental needs.
• Act as a key person, building secure relationships with children and families, and supporting emotional wellbeing through responsive practice.

Requirements

• Minimum Level 3 qualification in Early Years.
• Previous experience in a nursery or early years setting.
• Previous experience managing and leading a team.
• Confident role-modeling of good practice from day one.
• Highly fluent English speaker with strong communication skills.
• Confident safeguarding knowledge.
• Solid understanding of the EYFS framework.
• Warm, patient, resilient, and proactive approach.
• Comfortable with the challenges of establishing a new setting.
• Passionate about early years.

Skills

• Leadership
• Mentoring
• Early years practice
• Teaching through play
• Planning
• Key person approach
• Relationship building
• Communication
• Safeguarding
• EYFS framework knowledge

Location

• Barnes, Richmond upon Thames, SW London (SW13)

Work Type

• Full-time
• Monday to Friday
• Shift patterns: 7:30am-4:30pm or 9am-6pm

Experience Level

• Experienced Room Leader
• Previous management and leadership experience

Education Level

• Min. Level 3 qualified in Early Years

Salary/Compensations

• £39,000-£41,000 (dependent on experience and qualifications)

Benefits

• A month of paid training ahead of opening
• Wellbeing support and supervision
• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
• Dedicated annual training budget
• 26 days annual leave (including public holidays), rising by a day for each year served up to five years
• Nursery closure between Christmas and New Year

About the Company

• A brand new, boutique nursery opening in Barnes in January 2027.
• Founded by a former nursery teacher turned child therapist with a masters in play therapy.
• A calm, attachment-informed setting.
• Nursery built around reflective, relationship-centred practice.
• Building filled with natural light and designed with care.