Job Description: Nursery Deputy Manager

Location: Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday, year-round

Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum

Are you looking to work in a newly refurbished nursery filled with exciting new resources? Join our client’s new team and grow with them! Our client offers great salary packages, benefits, employee rewards, and occasional bonuses. The nursery is freshly refurbished to welcome the new team and new families under new management. Expect a generous annual leave package, increasing with long service, plus your birthday off. Enjoy a minimum of 50% off your own childcare fees and additional discounts for your family and friends. If you’re ready to start now, we can complete your induction in a neighbouring nursery, giving you the exciting opportunity to open and create new nursery environments.

Benefits:

Family First benefits include annual leave starting at 24 days plus a paid birthday day off and bank holidays. Enjoy discounted nursery fees for all our teams, friends, and family, access to a discount/perks platform, and exceptional learning and development opportunities tailored to you.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff member, parent, and visitor at all times.
• Ensure compliance with the statutory framework for the EYFS throughout the nursery.
• Manage the acceptance and administration of medication, maintaining thorough and up-to-date care plans for children or staff with health conditions.
• Provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments, and resources appropriate to each child’s age and stage of development.
• Promote respect and credibility through effective communication, impartiality, and consistency.
• Inspire the staff team with creative ideas and new challenges aimed at achieving outstanding practice.
• Maintain accurate records and accounts relating to children and staff on the EyMan system and on file.
• Undertake any other duties to ensure the smooth running of the nursery and the safety and wellbeing of children, staff, and families.

Please note: Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive. Changes and additional duties relevant to this post may be added as required.

Requirements and Skills:

• Essential:
  • Full and relevant Level 3 Childcare qualification.
  • Over one year’s experience in Early Years.
  • Sound knowledge of the statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements.
• Desirable:
  • Over one year’s experience in a management position.
  • Level 5 qualification in Childcare and/or Management and Leadership.
  • Experience of successfully passing an Ofsted inspection to good or outstanding.

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A Disclosure and Barring Service Certificate will be required for all posts. This post will be subject to enhanced checks as part of our safeguarding duty.

About Us:

Our client is part of a well established nursery group, where everyone is treated as a person with equal rights and responsibilities, whether they are an adult or a child. They are committed to providing equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice for all children and families according to their individual needs. Discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, race, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, ethnic or national origin, or political belief has no place within the our clients setting.