Deputy Nursery Manager in Nottingham

Zero2Five are proud to be working with a well-established Day Nursery based near Gamston, Nottingham who are looking to employ a passionate Deputy Nursery Manager to join their experienced and supportive team focusing on supporting children to play and explore whilst developing socially, intellectually, emotionally and physically. This is also an exciting opportunity for an experienced Third-in-Charge who is looking to take the next step up in their career.

Key Responsibilities

• To support the Nursery Manager in ensuring all registers monitoring children's and staff's attendance/deployment are accurate.
• Ensure all staff hold a current DBS check and that no reference requests are actioned for staff past or present without prior approval from Head Office.
• Manage the overall operations of the nursery, ensuring compliance with EYFS, DFE and Ofsted.
• To work in accordance with the philosophy of the Directors, Management Team, local and national policy in meeting all safeguarding and welfare requirements creating a stable, happy, safe and secure environment for staff, trainees, volunteers, children, parents and visitors whilst on the premises.
• To do whatever is acceptable within the terms and conditions of your employment to support the Nursery Manager to ensure that the Nursery runs smoothly and efficiently, keeping all office records up to date and passing all relevant correspondence onto the Head Office/Directors.
• To support the Nursery Manager in supporting a self-reflective team who contribute fully to Nursery and Room Improvement Plans.
• To ensure that emotional stress is minimised by creating a welcoming, secure and ordered environment.
• Ensuring that every effort is made to develop and maintain good relationships with staff including showing respect, support and empathy.
• To respect each child as an individual taking time to understand their needs, whilst refraining from showing any favouritism.
• To ensure an appropriate and effective induction procedure is followed for each child that includes accurate baseline information gathered in partnership with parents/carers.
• To ensure that high standards of care and teaching strategies are provided and maintained to enable each child to develop a sense of well-being and therefore progress in all Prime and Specific Areas of learning.
• To work alongside the Nursery Manager and Room Leaders to analyse developmental progress of children and consider the progress of identified cohorts e.g. SEND.
• To ensure EYFS learning and development requirements are met and oversee all educational processes (planning, delivery, observations/assessment and reviewing) whilst also monitoring staff's ability to identify next steps.
• To ensure that the Nursery throughout achieves high levels of cleanliness, including maintaining an up to date and accurate accident/incident book.
• To report any incident involving the need for medical attention to the Area Manager/Directors whilst ensuring that all records and reports are collected, signed and analysed to identify any patterns forming.

Essential Criteria:

• Over 2 years of management experience.
• Level 3 or above Early Years qualification.
• Excellent ICT and communication skills.
• Paediatric First Aid certification and a commitment to maintain it.
• A current and clean DBS certificate.
• A thorough understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), Ofsted requirements, and safeguarding policies.

The successful candidate will step into a role offering an outstanding salary package, boosted by fantastic benefits such as in-house training and genuine opportunities to accelerate your career. You'll be part of a vibrant, welcoming team and work in a modern setting equipped with top-class facilities—an environment where you can truly thrive. If this sounds like the type of vacancy you feel you have been looking for, then apply today!