Senior Nursery Manager, Billericay

Do you hold a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care & Children & Young People or are you working towards this qualification?

Experience:

• Nursery management: 2 years (required)

The Treehouse Club is a multi award winning group of Forestry Nurseries, Preschools and Out of School Clubs in the heart of Essex. Operating for 14 years, we have grown to 12 settings, with a further 3 early this year. We are looking for an experienced Nursery Manager who loves the benefits of outdoor education and can expand the setting on our forest school ethos.

Full-time: 4 days per week, 7:30am - 6:30pm with a set day off per week.

We are looking for the Nursery Manager to have:

• Good management experience within a day nursery
• Be passionate about providing the best possible outcomes for children
• An understanding of HR
• An understanding of setting occupancy and how to build on this
• Some understanding of marketing needs, working with the Operations Manager and Marketing Manager
• Good I.T skills including Excel

Benefits of our nursery manager include:

• Free daily lunch
• Free parking
• Extra birthday day off on us!
• Sick Pay
• Pension
• Staff events

Nursery Manager Job Role:

• To promote a consistent approach working towards our visions and mission, improving the quality of learning and development in the company’s settings and deploying this.
• Lead the team in providing high standards of care and education for the children.
• To lead Ofsted inspections and work with other local authorities as needed.
• To support with company development.
• Overall management of Health and safety.
• Review setting budget, and spend accordingly for your setting.
• Review Staff development and implement improvement plans, alongside carrying out regular supervisions with the staff.
• Ensure your setting is meeting the company policies and procedures.
• Review setting development plans and target and update accordingly.
• Provide the team with regular training updates, and ensure they are completing their mandatory training regularly.
• Monitor and promote equality.
• Lead the nursery in their self-evaluation and quality assurance processes.
• To undertake any other reasonable duties as directed.
• Join weekly calls with the other Managers, Area Managers and Directors to share best practice and to keep up to date with the business.

Safeguarding statement: The Treehouse Forestry Nursery and Out of School Club is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and takes its statutory duties and responsibilities in this context very seriously. We expect everyone working in or on behalf of the setting to share our commitment. We take pride in ensuring that our robust policies and procedures are reviewed regularly and implemented consistently, by everyone, as we strive to maintain a strong safeguarding working practices and culture. Annual safeguarding training is provided to all staff and is an integral part of the setting’s Continued Professional Development training. All staff, volunteers and main contractors undergo appropriate DBS checks prior to appointment.

Safer recruitment: The Treehouse Forestry Nursery and Out of School Club applies safer recruitment policies to ensure that all of our staff are suitable to work with children and young people. We advise you in advance that two people will be involved in your recruitment process. Both people will partake in your interview and each person will individually review all applications and paperwork to ensure that you are suitable for the role. Part of our safer recruitment procedure includes obtaining references for you. One of these references must be your latest employer. If you are unable to obtain a reference before the interview from your current employer then you must obtain references from the employer before that as well as one other reference. References from former employers are preferable over any other referee. Please note that we will need to obtain a reference from your latest employer before completing our processes for you to commence working for us. We are at liberty to advise you that if there are gaps in your employment history or any other information that gives us cause for concern, we will contact your former employers to obtain further information and satisfy any concerns that we have. We do not offer sponsorship to overseas applicants.

Eligibility to work within the UK: We will need to obtain evidence from you to confirm that you are eligible to work within the UK. We confirm that this information, as well as all personal information, will be held in our Staff Central Record.