Early Years Preschool Lead in London

We are currently recruiting for a passionate Room Manager to join our clients wonderful Nursery. You must be dedicated to ensure your room runs smoothly. You are expected to be a dedicated and ambitious Preschool Room Manager.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor and inspire a team to deliver the highest care and education standards and support and carry out 1-1 meetings and supervisions to support checking staff knowledge and understanding of Policies and Procedures and child development and EYFS.
• In line with our standards for pedagogy, lead and support the curriculum to ensure a child-centred approach to operating all aspects of the nursery and ensure the observation and planning process meets the needs of all children in line with the Quality Assurance Framework.
• Ensure internal policies and procedures and legislation from governing bodies are adhered to and team members can demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of Policies and Procedures through their individual impact statements and their practice.
• Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication with all stakeholders of the nursery and wider community including parents, professionals and colleagues.
• Support and manage Keeping Everyone Safe policies and procedures and continuously demonstrate, monitor and improve the practices and behaviours that underpin a high performing safety culture.
• Be the lead Designated Safeguarding Lead at the nursery and hold overall responsibility for the day to day management of safeguarding and child protection policies in the nursery when the designated DSL.
• Lead by example and drive the culture of Safeguarding Children and promoting professional staff behaviour.
• In collaboration with the Nursery manager, contribute to succession planning, identification and delivery of relevant training, and additional requirements for personal development plans including coaching and mentoring for all staff.
• Fulfil roles, responsibilities and legislative duty in relation to safeguarding children by ensuring that they have read, understood and implement the Safeguarding Policies and Procedures.
• Ensure that they have completed Child Protection training every two years as set out in the Child Protection Policy and that this training impacts on their ability to safeguard the children in their care.
• Work as part of a larger team to ensure all essential day to day tasks are completed in line with the nursery demands, e.g., hygiene standards and room preparation.
• Promote the nursery to current parents and potential customers to support retention and ongoing occupancy growth.
• Ensure commercial success of the nursery by maintaining expenditure in line with FTEs and budget KPIs and ensuring purchasing is made in line with the procurement guidelines.
• Engage with the Local Authority and understand the local offer to support the practice in all areas of the nursery.
• Continue personal professional development to ensure during periods of full responsibility of the nursery, knowledge and skills are up to date, full, and relevant to the role of the designated person in charge and responsible for leading the setting.
• Provide support for colleagues within the nursery and across the broader business when required.
• Attend staff meetings and training sessions to ensure continuous professional development.

Responsible for:

• Providing strong and clear line management for a Nursery team including mentoring of the wider leadership team including the third in charge role, room leaders and colleagues.
• Planning and demonstrating a clear understanding of efficient staff deployment, matching staff hours to FTE bookings and managing the rostering in line with regulatory standards.
• Ensuring strong and effective performance management and monitoring processes, with the ability to demonstrate impact and show improvements in performance, leading to the highest quality provision as set out in the Quality Assurance Framework, improved inspection ratings, full regulatory compliance, high levels of customer and employee satisfaction and growth.
• Leading a Health and Safety Culture where you ensure all team members recognise the part they each play in ensuring robust procedures are followed for Policies and Procedures and the regulatory standards set by our regulator.
• Providing an environment with a strong focus on customer and practitioner engagement and providing guidance to practitioners.
• Undertaking regular 1-1/supervision meetings with staff to plan and provide suitable professional development activities and opportunities for personal growth within a culture of self-driven development, to promote individual and team expertise in all aspects of nursery development and learning, to secure a highly effective, motivated and innovative team.

Essential Experience:

• Working in collaboration with colleagues and the Nursery Manager in achieving positive working relationships through effective communication, leadership and guidance and support of all members of the nursery team.
• A strong record of ongoing training and/or professional qualifications since qualifying.
• Proven experience of working in early years education settings with success.

Qualifications:

• Full and relevant level 3 qualification (essential).
• 12 hours paediatric first aid and first aid at work (essential).
• Level 2 Food Hygiene or equivalent - ideal.
• Relevant safeguarding/child protection training undertaken and a willingness to update training regularly (essential).
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Undergraduate or Foundation Degree in Early Childhood Studies or other relevant subject (Desirable).
• EYPP/EYTT or QTS post graduate status (Desirable).
• Full, clean driving licence and flexibility to travel as necessary.