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About the Role
Lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education, drive employee engagement, retention, and performance. Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead, manage daily operations and safeguarding policies, and partner with support teams for recruitment and commercial strategies. Optimize nursery performance, revenue, and cost efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team to deliver outstanding care and education.
- Drive employee engagement, retention, and performance through inspirational leadership.
- Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead.
- Hold overall responsibility for the day-to-day running of the nursery.
- Manage safeguarding policies.
- Partner with support office teams to recruit, nurture, and develop high-performing colleagues.
- Identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE growth.
- Optimize nursery performance, revenue generation, and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements.
Requirements
- Experience within an Early Years leadership role (ideally as a Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager, Assistant Manager or similar).
- Experience of participating with a regulatory inspection, leading to a ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ outcome.
- Experience of developing high performance teams, with effective regulatory compliance, quality improvement, delivery of high-quality pedagogy, innovation and service excellence.
- Confident decision maker, with ability to support change and understanding of complex relationship between commercial and service excellence within a regulated setting.
- 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.
- 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.
Skills
- Safeguarding
- Child Protection
- Regulatory compliance
- Quality improvement
- High-quality pedagogy
- Innovation
- Service excellence
Location
- Bromley
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Leadership role experience
- Nursery Manager experience
- Deputy Manager experience
- Assistant Manager experience
Education Level
- Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification
Salary/Compensations
- Starting from £45,510.40 per annum (dependant on qualification/s and experience)
Benefits
- Childcare discount of 100% for first child*
- Competitive bonus of up to £6,000, awarded in line with Ofsted inspection outcomes
- Enhanced parental leave
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and paid Christmas closure.
- Ability to also purchase additional leave*
- Pension
- Financial and wellbeing benefits including 24/7 virtual GP appointments, early access to wages, and more
- Professional development programme access for every stage of your career, including access to a careers coach
About the Company
- Organisation culture driven by HEART principles – Honesty, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork.
- Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
- Proud to be a Great Place to Work for 20 years.
Equal Opportunity
- Inclusive employer and welcome people from all ages and backgrounds to apply.
- Will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.