Nursery Manager

Nursery: Bright Horizons Cedar House Day Nursery and Preschool

Hours: Full Time - Mon-Fri - 40 hours a week

Salary: £42,523 - £56,100 per annum (dependent on qualifications & experience)

We are looking for a full-time, qualified Nursery Manager to join our Bright Horizons Cedar House setting, the nursery is made up of three large baby rooms, two toddler rooms and one preschool room and is an 89 child place setting.

The nursery is ideally located with easy access transport links, including Bush Hill Park Rail Station being just a three-minute walk from the nursery with regular services heading to London Liverpool Street. Also, it’s near Enfield town Centre, being approximately a two-minute drive away.

What we can offer you

Our benefits include, but are not limited to:

1. Above industry standard salary, with annual salary reviews
2. £2,000 bonus when your team achieves Outstanding Ofsted (or 5/6 combined Care Inspectorate rating)
3. Discounted childcare of 100% for first child
4. 33 days holiday per year, with the option to buy additional days
5. Smart Health access, including 24/7 access to Virtual GP appointments, fitness programmes and mental health support
6. Financial support through early access to wages, low interest debt consolidation loans and a wide variety of discounts across high street brands, travel, utilities and days out
7. Development programme access for every stage of your career, tailored to your individual journey, with opportunities across our network of nurseries
8. Access to our Future Leaders programme, preparing you to step into a Room Leader position
9. Employee Appreciation throughout the year including our annual Awards of Excellence gala’s
10. Happy to Talk Flexible Working

Why Bright Horizons?

We are driven by our HEART values (Honesty, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork). If your values align, you’d be a great fit to join one of our 300 nurseries across the UK. We’ve also been voted Great Place to Work every year since 2006 - as well achieving Great Place for Wellbeing and Great Place for Women.

Did you know, Bright Horizons Foundation for Children charity has been established since 2005 supporting the lives of thousands of children and families in crisis, across almost 100 locations? Each Bright Horizons colleague is entitled to a paid volunteer day every year!

What you’ll be doing

1. Lead our nursery teams to deliver outstanding care to all the children in your setting
2. Through your inspirational leadership drive employee engagement, retention, and performance in the nursery
3. Work in partnership with Recruitment and HR to ensure your nursery is fully recruited, encouraging a diverse workforce
4. Role model and mentor your nursery team to ensure the highest quality early childhood practice and experience for all children, including children with special education needs and/or disabilities
5. Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead at the nursery, holding overall responsibility for the day to day running of the nursery and management of safeguarding and child protection policies
6. Work in partnership with HR to identify succession plans for the nursery team and nurture, create and continuously develop a pipeline of high performing colleagues, building the strongest talent pool in the sector
7. Work with the Regional Director, Finance and Marketing teams to identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE growth within the nursery
8. Commercial delivery of the nursery performance, optimising revenue generation and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements, to deliver and exceed the annual budgeted EBITDA
9. Engage with the Local Authority to understand the local offer, to support practice in all areas of the nursery

What we’re looking for

1. Full and Relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification (essential)
2. Experience within an Early Years leadership role (ideally as a Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager, Assistant Manager or similar)
3. Experience of participating with a regulatory inspection, leading to a “Good” or “Outstanding” outcome
4. Experience of developing high performance teams, with effective regulatory compliance, quality improvement, delivery of high quality pedagogy, innovation and service excellence
5. Confident decision maker, with ability to support change and the understanding of the complex relationship between business/commerce and service excellence within a regulated setting
6. Strong knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, Child Protection, and the wider legislative requirements for working with children
7. Ability to build trust and strong working relationships with colleagues, parents and external partners

Bright Horizons are committed to creating inclusive environments where everyone has a sense of belonging and has the opportunity to contribute and thrive in meaningful and impactful ways. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to apply. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants. Please note, due to our sector all roles are subject to an Enhanced DBS.

We look forward to receiving your application!

If you experience any problems, please email europe.recruitment@brighthorizons.com and we will be happy to help.

About Us

At Bright Horizons, our culture is built on our commitment to Keeping Everyone Safe and providing world-class care and education, delivered by a world-class workforce. We believe our people’s potential is endless and with this in mind, we aspire to create an environment where our colleagues can thrive and accomplish the things they thought impossible.

Bright Horizons has been recognised as a Great Place to Work by our employees and the Great Place to Work Institute for the last 13 years. We care passionately about what we do, and our HEART values and principles help us support one another in the work that we do each day. These are quite literally at the HEART of our organisation’s ethos and culture as it helps us to provide a working environment that supports professionalism, growth and diversity.

We are passionate about our people’s ongoing learning and development. Our learning and leading with HEART framework supports each Bright Horizons colleague on the first steps of their leadership journey, whether that includes our 'World-Class Welcome' induction or our extensive ongoing training programme. Either way we want you to feel valued and invested in!

Celebrating in the accomplishments of our people is an essential part of our culture. We believe in the power of “thank you” and throughout the year, in ways big and small, formal and informal, we show our appreciation for employees at all levels. We have many ways to acknowledge and celebrate our people, including our very popular “employee appreciation month”. This is a chance for everyone to share their gratitude to one another, across the whole company. Whether it is a “thank you” placed on our website, a chocolate pizza, team lunch or an ice cream van visit, it is our way of showing each other we care and appreciate everything we do. Each year, we have our annual 'Awards of Excellence' events; whether you are an award winner or cheering on a fellow team member, these formal award occasions are opportunities to come together and celebrate one another.