Nursery Manager (Interim)

Role: Nursery Manager (Interim 6 months minimum)

Location: Scampton, Lincoln

Salary: GBP27,366 per annum

Interim (6 Months Minimum) Full Time 40 hours a week

Closing Date: Midnight 19th August 2022

Spring RAF Scampton is a 90 place nursery offering warm and friendly childcare for all children up to the age of 12 years. Spring RAF Scampton have a highly qualified and dedicated team who are passionate about nurturing children and promoting well-being.

Perks: We have some of the best employment terms and benefits package in the sector, including generous leave entitlement, paid time off to deal with family emergencies and paid maternity leave - as well as lots of benefits to save you and your family money and to save for your future. Check out more on our careers portal

We believe all children deserve the best early start in life. It's our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK, that is accessible to all. We support children to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright and engaging settings.

The role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Nursery Manager to join and lead our team at Spring RAF Scampton to provide a safe, caring, fun and stimulating environment. Our Nursery Managers provide the highest standard of leadership to their teams.

The way we work

We are proud to be part of the Action for Children family, a national children's charity and our success in Spring makes a difference. With over 150 years of experience in caring for children and young people, we are an award-winning quality and ethical provider. Any profit we make is aligned to support vulnerable children and young people in need across the UK, through the work of Action for Children.

Our successful candidate will have an enthusiastic and pro-active mindset with a positive attitude and have the ability to lead the team to form strong and supportive relationships with the parents, children and the team. Our Job Description outlines the requirements of the role, but the must haves' are:

• Minimum level 3 qualification in Childcare or Early Years
• Leadership and management experience, in a childcare setting.
• Experience of working in a senior role within a nursery setting or centre working with children aged 0 to 5 years and their families.
• Leading a staff team, including supervision, work allocation, assessment or training and professional development
• A thorough knowledge and understanding of the EYFS, Ofsted requirements and relevant current legislation.
• Understanding of child protection processes, safeguarding and working with vulnerable children.
• Commitment to inclusive and non-discriminatory working practice with children, families, colleagues and the community.

Talent pool: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.

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We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

We are passionate about promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons particularly people with Disabilities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce