Footsteps Nursery, Fradley
Nursery Deputy Manager
Permanent | 40 hours per week | Monday – Friday
Level 3 Childcare Qualification essential
As the Deputy Manager, you will help lead the staff to deliver and ensure all children receive quality care, helping extend the child’s learning. You will create, plan, and implement activities and experiences that support all aspects of the EYFS. You will be responsible for opening and closing the nursery and will be required to cover for the Manager in her absence.
This role is working 40 hours per week, with various shift patterns between the opening and closing times of the nursery 7:00am-6:00pm.
This position would suit a candidate who can drive due to the location of the nursery. This converted barn building is set in a beautiful rural location surrounded by fields, boasting large outdoor play environments suitable for all weather conditions. Our nursery, rated Good by Ofsted (March 2023), provides children from birth to 5 years the opportunity to explore, learn, and develop through many activities and resources available to promote learning through play. We love the great outdoors, and our nursery features open spaces for our children, along with outdoor learning in our bespoke forest school facility.
Responsibilities:
* Supporting and liaising with the Manager on a daily basis.
* Assisting the Manager in ensuring effective staff recruitment following Footsteps Day Nurseries recruitment procedures. Supervising staff and students, conducting regular staff assessments, recognizing training needs, monitoring training, and developing teamwork.
* Planning and preparing activities to develop all aspects of the child's individual development in a stimulating atmosphere, within the Early Years Foundation Stage.
* Working as part of a team to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop, and learn.
* Undertaking any other duties to ensure the smooth running of the nursery and the safety and wellbeing of children, staff, and families.
What we need from you:
* Passion and commitment for working in childcare.
* Ability to work shifts between 7:30am-6:30pm Monday to Friday, working 40 hours per week.
* Over 1 year’s experience of working in Early Years.
* Commitment to continual development.
* NNEB, BTEC Nat Dip, CACHE Dip in Childcare, NVQ level 3, EY Educator.
Why Join Us?
At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:
* Annual Leave: Starting at 24 days, plus a paid day off for your birthday and bank holidays.
* Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our team members.
* Wellbeing: Confidential employee assistance helpline available.
* Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth.
All perks are pro-rata for part-time staff and subject to successful completion of probationary period. These perks may be subject to further conditions and can be withdrawn or reviewed at the discretion of the company.
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.
Fradley is part of the Family First Group where we take great care to treat everyone as a person, with equal rights and responsibilities to any other individual, whether they are an adult or a child. We 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 Family First Group.
We are: Defined by Family. We’re a family by name, and we’re a family by nature too. We are defined in many different ways, by many different people. Different cultures. Different ideas. Different ages, genders, and skill sets. Whilst every individual will have their own definition of family, these definitions all come together to show Family First for who we are.
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