Nursery Manager

Nursery Manager

Brentford Full-Time No home office possible
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Overview

Job Title: Nursery Manager
Location: Brentford
Salary: Up to £58,000, with the potential to earn a further £6,000 in bonuses
Hours: 41.25 hours
Reports to: Regional Manager

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Be All In: You lead with unwavering commitment, ensuring the nursery operates to the highest standards of care, compliance, and professionalism, while championing the well-being of children, families, and staff.
  • Come Together: You cultivate strong collaboration across the nursery, building trusted relationships with your team, families, and the wider community to create a united, values-led environment.
  • Be Yourself: You bring confident self-awareness to your leadership, modelling reflective practice, supporting individual growth, and creating a culture where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued.
  • Go Further: You demonstrate bold ambition by driving continuous improvement, leading strategic initiatives, and aligning the nursery with Fennies’ mission, vision, and long-term goals.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive Pay & Perks: Salaries that match or outshine our competitors, a comprehensive pension scheme, and exclusive staff childcare discounts of up to 75% when you enrol your children at Fennies.
  • Leadership Community: Regular manager meetings to discuss, innovate, and socialise, with tailored learning and development sessions, mentoring, and coaching to help you grow as a leader.
  • Career Development: Targeted development plans and bespoke guidance from educational experts to support your professional journey.
  • Personalised Induction: A structured onboarding experience including 1:1 Clifton Strengths coaching to help identify and build on your strengths as a manager.
  • Well-being Support: Access to well-being benefits, including BUPA support, team incentives, and up to 33 days of annual leave.
  • Celebration & Connection: Events such as summer barbecues and Christmas parties.
  • Performance Recognition: £750 quarterly performance bonuses to reward your commitment and impact.
  • Daily Dining: The Fennies Café offers a range of choices, with free daily lunch options.
  • Fennies Club: Recognition of length of service with gifts and plaques as part of our commitment to honour dedication.

What You Bring

  • Excellent knowledge of Birth to 5 Matters, typical child development stages, and a sound understanding of the EYFS.
  • Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification.
  • Minimum grade 4/GCSE C in Maths and English (or equivalent).
  • Proper implementation, audits, and requirements for key person, safeguarding, health & safety, and confidentiality systems.
  • Ability to safely administer medication, First Aid, and critical care policies.
  • Experience preparing for Ofsted visits and maintaining compliant standards.
  • Ability to derive solutions for resolving issues and complaints per Fennies policies and procedures.
  • Ability to achieve KPIs in line with Fennies mission statement.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Fennies, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued. We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people; successful applicants will undergo an enhanced criminal record check and identity verification. In line with Safer Recruitment, online checks may be carried out for shortlisted candidates.

Note: This posting may include standard recruitment notices and compliance statements.

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Contact Detail:

Fennies Nurseries Recruiting Team

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