Nursery Deputy Manager

As the Deputy Manager, you will help lead the staff to deliver and ensure all children receive quality care, help extend the child's learning. Create, plan, and implement activities and experience which help support all aspects of the EYFS. You will be responsible for opening and closing the nursery and will be required to cover for the Manager in her absence.#

This beautiful nursery is a converted farmhouse and rated Good by Ofsted (March 2024). It offers a cosy home from home environment providing quality childcare from 3 months to 5 years. We offer a broad range of activities for children to explore and expand their natural curiosity and learn through play. We love the great outdoors, and our nursery features open spaces for our children, they also experience outdoor learning in our bespoke forest school facility.

This role is working 40 hours per week, various shifts patterns between the opening and closing times of the nursery 7:00am-18:30pm.

Responsibilities:

- Supporting and liaising with the Manager on a daily basis.

- Assisting the Manager in ensuring effective staff recruitment following Footsteps Day Nurseries recruitment procedures. Supervising staff and students, conducting regular staff assessments, recognising training needs, monitoring training and developing teamwork.

- Planning and preparing activities to develop all aspects of the child's individual development in a stimulating atmosphere, within the Early Years Foundation Stage.

- To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn

- Undertake any other duties to ensure the smooth running of the nursery, and the safety and wellbeing of children, staff and families

Passion and commitment for working in childcare

- Ability to work shifts between 7.30-6.30pm Monday to Friday working 40 hours per week

- Over 1 year's experience of working in Early Years

- Commitment to continual development

- NNEB, BTEC Nat Dip, CACHE Dip in Childcare, NVQ level 3, EY Educator

Family First benefits include annual leave starting at 24 days on top of a paid birthday day off and bank holidays. On top of this we have discounted nursery fees for all our teams, friends and family, access to a discount/perks platform with exceptional learning & development opportunities tailored to you.