Deputy Manager
Main duties and responsibilities:
* To be a good role model to staff, ensuring that best practice is promoted at all times. To support and supervise room staff with their daily duties, including the planning of age-appropriate activities that are reflective of the children’s interests and needs, updating children’s learning records, providing support for intimate care, following policies and procedures, and ensuring that Health and Safety procedures are carried out effectively, including the implementation of cleaning schedules.
* To ensure learning experiences of the highest quality through a range of well-planned play which is enjoyable and challenging, and with opportunities for children to engage in activities planned by adults, as well as child-initiated activities. To ensure that legal ratios are maintained in your room at all times, whilst supporting other rooms in the nursery where necessary.
* To use your initiative to take control of a situation with regard to staff or children if the manager is unavailable. To ensure close supervision of children during all meal times and adhering to the allergy and dietary requirements of all children within the nursery.
* To adhere to task deadlines, and to support room staff with meeting deadlines, including (but not limited to) paperwork, mandatory training, and children’s development folders. To attend appropriate and regular training courses, especially with regard to th...