Nursery Manager in Wellington

We are searching for the best education professionals. Wellesley Park Primary School in Wellington is home to 300 children, including Wellesley Park Explorers. We are seeking to appoint an outstanding manager to join Explorers Nursery as our Nursery Manager and play a key role in growing our provision within Wellesley Park Primary School. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and shape the future of early years education in a modern, purpose-built environment designed to inspire outstanding learning and development.

Be part of something special, creating a nurturing, innovative space where every child can truly thrive. As part of our Early Years expansion, our Nursery is open five days a week, all year round for children aged 9 months to 4 years.

Level 3 Early Years Education and Childcare qualification or equivalent is essential.

We are looking for:

• A dedicated, hardworking manager who is able to raise and sustain high standards
• Someone who has excellent interpersonal skills with children, staff and parents
• A manager who is able to enthuse and inspire children
• Someone who is able to work as part of a team sharing excellent practice and learning from others
• A manager to be responsible for the efficient day-to-day running of the Nursery and overall delivery of a high-quality education from children aged 9 months to 5 years

We can offer you:

• A dedicated and supportive working environment
• Excellent professional development opportunities
• A modern, inspiring setting designed to support exceptional early years learning
• Eligibility to join excellent pension scheme
• Access to a range of continuous professional development opportunities
• Trust wide charity events designed to encourage our people to participate in meaningful activities
• Access to wellbeing provision which offers information and advice on a range of workplace and personal issues
• Flexible working opportunities
• Enhanced special leave provision, including additional time off as part of our ‘Personal Day’ entitlement which supports employees to achieve a better work/life balance
• Free car parking
• Gym membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free tea and coffee

The post is for 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday between the hours of 7:30am and 6:00pm all year. The salary scale is Grade 11 on the School Support Staff Pay Scale £32,597 to £36,363 per annum (£16.90 to £18.85 per hour) dependant on experience. The Employer pension contribution is 24.4%.

Visits to the setting are welcome, please phone the school office to make an appointment. A full job description and application pack is available on the school website. Please note, applications by CV or incomplete forms will not be considered.

Closing date: Wednesday 25th March 2026 at 9:00am

Interview date: Tuesday 31st March 2026

As a school we are committed to the safeguarding of our community, we follow full safer recruitment procedures including relevant references and DBS checks.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS). As part of our due diligence process when shortlisting, we may carry out an online search of publicly available material to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore with the applicant at interview.

References: References will be taken up on short-listed candidates that will include questions about past disciplinary actions or allegations in relation to behaviour with children, previous employers may be approached for information to verify particular experiences or qualifications before interview.

Data Protection Act: Information held by Blackdown Education Partnership complies with and is stored in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018.