COULD YOU BE THE NURTURY’S NEXT MANAGER?
Imagine a place where curiosity blossoms and where every day feels like a new adventure. Welcome to our nursery, a haven of creativity and growth, where we don’t just care for children—we inspire them.
We are currently overseeing a highly targeted process to appoint the next Manager of The Nurtury Day Nursery & Pre-School. We’re on the hunt for a visionary Nursery Manager who can bring innovation, passion, and a touch of magic to our dynamic setting. If you believe that education starts with nurturing the whole child and that sparking joy, imagination and fun is key for learning, then you might just be the leader we need.
THE ROLE
- Lead and develop The Nurtury Day Nursery & Pre-school and aim to consistently achieve an Ofsted rating of OUTSTANDING.
- Provide inspiring leadership to a multi-disciplinary childcare setting.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with nursery practitioners, parents and suppliers.
- Provide a safe and stimulating environment for both staff and children to promote learning.
- To develop the professional knowledge, skills, and attitudes of staff members and provide continuous
- professional development opportunities.
- Sees potential in every aspect of the nursery - a solution focused attitude.
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE
- Will hold Early Years level 3 relevant qualification (or above)
- Excellent knowledge of The Early Years Foundation Stage 2024 and other compulsory statutory guidance.
- Robust safeguarding and child protection knowledge (including wider safeguarding).
- Confident knowledge of the inspection process and/or experience leading a team to a ‘Good’ or
- ‘Outstanding’ outcome.
- Will be a highly effective communicator.
- Will have significant experience of nursery settings, with a strong track record delivering results.
- Will be an exceptional leader who understands and will enjoy a nursery environment.
- Will be highly resilient and comfortable in a leadership role.
- Will have a track record of creating a high performing, positive team culture and environment.
- Will have strong personal values and integrity and understand and embrace the vision the Directors
- inspire to achieve within the setting and community.
OUR VISION
“To be the nurturing heart of our community, where every child blossoms, learns and thrives in a safe, supportive and joyous environment. We aspire to be a place where families find trust, children discover wonder, and the future is cultivated with care.”
THE REWARDS
We believe that exceptional work deserves exceptional rewards. Here’s what you can look forward to as part of our team:
- Outstanding Achievement Bonus: Receive a £2000 bonus when the nursery attains an Ofsted OUTSTANDING rating.
- Generous Holiday Package: Start with 20 days of holiday plus 8 paid bank holidays. After one year, enjoy an enhanced package of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays.
- Celebrate Your Birthday: Take your birthday off with pay after one year of service.
- Flexibility with Annual Leave: Option to ‘Sell Back’ up to 5 days of your annual leave.
- Pension Scheme: Secure your future with our comprehensive pension plan.
- Delicious Free Lunches: Savor free lunches prepared daily by our in-house chef.
- Comfortable Breaks: Relax in our heated and air-conditioned staff room, nestled in the rear garden.
- Recognition and Rewards: Benefit from our Reward and Recognition Scheme with voucher incentives.
- Professional Growth: Access professional training, career development plans, and regular one-to-one
- meetings for support.
- Wellbeing Support: Utilise our Employee Assistance Programme for health and wellbeing.
- Exclusive Discounts: Enjoy discounts at various stores.
- Comfort All Year Round: Work in a fully heated and air-conditioned environment.
- Exciting Events: Participate in fantastic events like our Christmas party, Cheese and Wine evenings, and
- Summer BBQs.
Job Types: Permanent, Full-time Monday to Friday
Working hours: 40 hours working week
THE NURTURY DAY NURSERY & PRE-SCHOOL
The Nurtury is a private family run nursery, looking to recruit highly skilled, motivated, fun and enthusiastic practitioners to join us!
Would you like to work in our incredible, newly refurbished setting? Not only is our nursery kitted out with wonderful resources, but it also has an enchanting outdoor area. It’s not just the children that we grow.
As a private nursery, unlike some chain nurseries, we're not bogged down with red tape. We provide our teams with direct access and the autonomy to be able to obtain their own resources.
Staff can enjoy breaks in their own staff room, located away from the main building in our tranquil garden, and take the time to relax and unwind from the intensity of their work. You are also welcome to enjoy a free lunch prepared by our very own in-house Chef.
At The Nurtury, we recognise how immersive our careers are within our lives, especially in childcare. Therefore, we always look to support our team with additional benefits and take the time to listen to the feedback from everyone on what is important to them.
We appreciate the energy and intensity required to work in childcare, so to prevent long term burn out, we offer an enhanced annual leave package for those who have been with us for over 12 months, and as an extra thank you, we’ll give you a day off (fully paid) to celebrate your birthday! However, like our children, no two people are the same, and for those who don’t wish to use all their annual leave, we want to provide that little bit of extra flexibility and allow them to sell back up to 5-days annual leave.
We offer a nursery wide bonus incentive related to Ofsted inspections, and in addition to that we have a monthly Rewards & Recognition scheme where all the team can nominate an individual for the monetary value reward! What’s more, we also offer discount services on many of your favourite stores!
But… it’s not all always just about the benefits. Career development is a big part of our vision here at The Nurtury.
Not only will we provide you with the training and access to platforms you require to carry out your role, but we’ll also regularly meet to check in with how you are getting on. Every member of the team will be given goals to achieve, but also depending on your aspirations, we’ll work with you to develop your professional goals and provide you with a career development plan. All practitioners will meet with the Senior Leadership Team regularly for supervisions and observations to create the right conditions and provide you with a safe environment for you to raise any concerns, no matter how small. Not only that, but as part of your development, you’ll carry out peer to peer observations on your colleagues and share best practice and ideas between the rooms.
If all that is not enough, we are a family here at The Nurtury and often hold social events with parents such as seasonal festivals (e.g Easter egg hunts, graduation ceremonies etc...) with the children, but sometimes we recognise even the parents need a break and we hold child free events (e.g. BBQ's and cheese & wine nights with musicians!) However…we also enjoy to socialise on our own as a family. Often we enjoy social events and let our hair down after periods of hard work, or on a quieter night, we might finish our team meetings with a trip to a local restaurant for those who fancy it. And then of course there are our legendary Christmas parties provided as a huge Thank You! from The Nurtury!
Once you join our Nurtury family, we continuously look for ways to support and reward you. Nurturing the areas that you are good at and allowing you to express your best talents is a sure-fire way to ensure that you are happy and love your job.
THE NURTURY DAY NURSERY & PRE-SCHOOL
The Nurtury is a private family run nursery, looking to recruit highly skilled, motivated, fun and enthusiastic practitioners to join us!
Would you like to work in our incredible, newly refurbished setting? Not only is our nursery kitted out with wonderful resources, but it also has an enchanting outdoor area. It’s not just the children that we grow.
As a private nursery, unlike some chain nurseries, we're not bogged down with red tape. We provide our teams with direct access and the autonomy to be able to obtain their own resources.
Staff can enjoy breaks in their own staff room, located away from the main building in our tranquil garden, and take the time to relax and unwind from the intensity of their work. You are also welcome to enjoy a free lunch prepared by our very own in-house Chef.
At The Nurtury, we recognise how immersive our careers are within our lives, especially in childcare. Therefore, we always look to support our team with additional benefits and take the time to listen to the feedback from everyone on what is important to them.
We appreciate the energy and intensity required to work in childcare, so to prevent long term burn out, we offer an enhanced annual leave package for those who have been with us for over 12 months, and as an extra thank you, we’ll give you a day off (fully paid) to celebrate your birthday! However, like our children, no two people are the same, and for those who don’t wish to use all their annual leave, we want to provide that little bit of extra flexibility and allow them to sell back up to 5-days annual leave.
We offer a nursery wide bonus incentive related to Ofsted inspections, and in addition to that we have a monthly Rewards & Recognition scheme where all the team can nominate an individual for the monetary value reward! What’s more, we also offer discount services on many of your favourite stores!
But… it’s not all always just about the benefits. Career development is a big part of our vision here at The Nurtury.
Not only will we provide you with the training and access to platforms you require to carry out your role, but we’ll also regularly meet to check in with how you are getting on. Every member of the team will be given goals to achieve, but also depending on your aspirations, we’ll work with you to develop your professional goals and provide you with a career development plan. All practitioners will meet with the Senior Leadership Team regularly for supervisions and observations to create the right conditions and provide you with a safe environment for you to raise any concerns, no matter how small. Not only that, but as part of your development, you’ll carry out peer to peer observations on your colleagues and share best practice and ideas between the rooms.
If all that is not enough, we are a family here at The Nurtury and often hold social events with parents such as seasonal festivals (e.g Easter egg hunts, graduation ceremonies etc...) with the children, but sometimes we recognise even the parents need a break and we hold child free events (e.g. BBQ's and cheese & wine nights with musicians!) However…we also enjoy to socialise on our own as a family. Often we enjoy social events and let our hair down after periods of hard work, or on a quieter night, we might finish our team meetings with a trip to a local restaurant for those who fancy it. And then of course there are our legendary Christmas parties provided as a huge Thank You! from The Nurtury!
Once you join our Nurtury family, we continuously look for ways to support and reward you. Nurturing the areas that you are good at and allowing you to express your best talents is a sure-fire way to ensure that you are happy and love your job.