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Job Description

Title: Nursery Manager

Hours: 40 hours a week

Length: permanent

Job Description and Responsibilities

We are recruiting someone to manage the day-to-day running of Sevenoaks Day Nursery, responsible to the Board of Trustees, supported by a team of nursery staff as well as a Finance and HR Manager, who will ensure the long-term objectives of the charity are met.

The ideal candidate will be confident and experienced in various areas of childcare and development, operations and administration, leading a team, promoting strong professional relationships and passionate about our Nursery values and charitable objectives. This includes:

Childcare and development

Essential

 Responsible for providing high quality childcare for the families belonging to the Nursery.

 Leading the implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage, including overseeing planning and record keeping.

 Remaining abreast of current developments in childcare and education policies and practices.

 Up to date knowledge of safeguarding guidelines.

Finance, operations and administration

Essential

 Responsible for ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements affecting the Nursery and for ensuring that all paperwork and records required to be kept are completed accurately and fully.

 Keeping up to date with latest developments in childcare and pre-school learning to shape and influence strategy and policies. Making sure the policies are reviewed regularly and kept up to date, that all staff are familiar with the Nursery’s policies and that the policies are followed.

 Ensuring the right staffing is in place to meet regulatory requirements and to ensure the Nursery policies can be followed.

 Responsible for overseeing all finance and HR matters, assisted by the Finance and HR manager.

 Managing the complaints procedure (unless the complaint relates to the manager)   and informing the Trustees of any complaints.

 Planning and oversight of the maintenance of the buildings and equipment belonging to the Nursery.

 Managing and responding appropriately to correspondence sent to the manager including the manager@sdn.org.uk email address.

Desirable

 Embracing new technology where it benefits the operation of the Nursery.

 Knowledge and experience of invoicing systems.

 Good understanding of the government funded hours and any other funding that applies.

 Have experience in using various family information apps.

Leading a team

Essential

 Delivering excellent operational performance by leading a team of childcare and support staff to deliver an excellent service to families in line with the objectives and ethos of the Nursery.

 Supporting the governance process by attending Trustee meetings and preparing documentation for review as required.

 Using parent feedback, performance data, quality checks and your own observations to coach, give feedback and create development plans for team members, ensuring a relentless focus on the delivery of results, and that the potential of team members is realised.

 Managing the recruitment and overseeing induction procedure for all new staff.

 Undertaking or assisting in disciplinary and grievance investigations and meetings with regard to staff.

 Promoting and managing staff development including identifying training needs, a training plan and evaluating training undertaken by staff.

 Strong decision-making skills.

 Experience in supporting apprenticeships.

Professional relationships

Essential

 Promoting and facilitating partnerships with parents/carers and other family members.

 Developing and maintaining highly professional working relationships with relevant Local Authority departments, regulatory bodies and other agencies.

 Responsible for liaising with external agencies including Ofsted and social services, and to supply with the required information.

 Promoting the nursery to current and potential families.

 Building and maintaining a network of other nurseries to compare practice and provide support, for example, in arranging joint training to reduce costs, learning from a wider range of experience.

Nursery values and charitable objectives

Essential

 Promoting and acting in accordance with the charitable objectives of the nursery as determined by the Trustees. To ensure that staff and parents understand the charitable objectives of the nursery.

 Managing the occupancy to ensure it meets the charitable aims.

Desirable

 Leading initiatives for fundraising through various channels for ongoing support for the nursery.