At a Glance
- Tasks: Oversee nursery operations, ensuring compliance with Ofsted and EYFS standards while supporting managers.
- Company: Storal operates a collective group of nurseries across England, focusing on high-quality early years outcomes.
- Benefits: Enjoy family-friendly benefits like 50% childcare discount and enhanced parental leave.
- Other info: This role covers the South West region with a salary up to £50,000 plus car allowance.
- Why this job: Join a passionate team dedicated to improving children's care and education in the South West.
- Qualifications: Must have Level 3 or above qualification in early years and experience as a regional nursery manager.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 50000 £ per year.
Location: Regional role, covering the following South West
Hours: 40 Hours per week Monday to Friday
Salary: Up to £50,000 plus car allowance
Who & What is Storal? It’s our collective group of Nurseries across England. Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and we are passionate about Early Years. Bringing your whole self is a must if that’s pink hair, being Neurospicy or having a unique pastime, we encourage it all. Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better.
Purpose and vision To ensure the highest standards of care and education, driving operational excellence, supporting staff development, and maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. By doing this, commercial results will follow and our customers (parents & children) will notice.
Meaningful relationships As a Regional Operations Manager, you will act as a key link between the nurseries and senior management, ensuring that each thrives while aligning with the ethos, behaviors, and objectives of Storal.
Important tasks
- Support nursery managers to achieve business results including quality and commercial performance.
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of your nurseries in your assigned area, ensuring the management teams meet and/or exceed company expectations.
- Ensure all nurseries comply with relevant legislation, including Ofsted/EYFS requirements, health and safety, and safeguarding standards.
- Lead, coach, and mentor Nursery Managers to help them achieve their goals and support the development of their teams.
Objectives and impact
- Ensuring nurseries maintain strict compliance with, and drive standards above regulatory requirements.
- Improving financial performance year over year, maintaining and improving margin, and identifying opportunities for growth and expansion.
- Monitor occupancy levels, staffing requirements and parent engagement so you can implement strategies to maximise enrolment across settings.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of company-wide initiatives and policies.
Essential requirements
- Level 3 or above full and relevant qualification in early years
- Experience working as a regional nursery manager, across multiple sites
- Excellent knowledge of EYFS, Ofsted standards, and safeguarding practices
- Experience in budget management and commercial oversight
- Strong ability to inspire and motivate others
Must Haves
- Ability to role model Storal Behaviors
- A clear understanding of Storal Ethos
- A passion for little people
Why work for us:
- Family Friendly Benefits – enhanced parents leave including maternity, paternity & adoption & Childcare Discount at 50% off all fees
- Wellbeing & Refuel Benefits – extra day off per year for your wellbeing and access to modern-day, progressive mental health support & sick pay
- Financial Perks – emergency cash access to your pay before pay date, free financial coaching
- Social Perks – online community for peer-to-peer socializing eg. book club, pets club, pinecones club & continuous professional development accessible to you at any time
- Plus, many more.
We care about our people. Curious to know more? Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete thorough compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.
Regional Operations Manager in Basingstoke employer: Storal Learning Ltd
Storal offers a supportive environment with enhanced parental leave and a 50% childcare discount. Located across England, the team is committed to high standards in early years education and safeguarding practices.
