Family First Nurseries
Nursery Deputy Manager at Family First Nurseries in Rochester ME1 2UR
Job Description
Kloisters Kindergarten – Nursery Deputy Manager 12-month FTC
£34,000 per annum
45 hours per week
Join Kloisters Kindergarten, Rochester!
We’re a warm and welcoming nursery with excellent commuter links, providing a stimulating environment where children learn and thrive every day.
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Deputy Manager to support the day-to-day running of the nursery, lead and inspire the team, and help ensure the highest standards of care, learning, and compliance. You’ll work closely with the Nursery Manager to create a positive environment for children, families, and staff.
This is a full-time role, 45 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Why Join Us?
At Family First, we value our team members and offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:
- Employee Childcare Discounts: 75% off nursery fees for our team members.
- Annual Leave: 24 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Celebrate your birthday with a day off on us!
- Health and Wellbeing Programme: Confidential employee assistance helpline available.
- Development: Tailored learning and development opportunities to support your career growth.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the EYFS are met throughout the nursery.
- Assist in managing the acceptance and administration of medication and ensure care plans are thorough and up to date for children or staff with health conditions.
- Ensure that all children receive stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments and resources that are appropriate to their age and stage of development.
- Promote respect and credibility for this position through effective communication skills, impartiality, and consistency.
- Inspire staff team with creative ideas and new challenges with aim to achieve outstanding practice.
- Undertake any other duties to ensure the smooth running of the nursery and safety and wellbeing of children, staff, and families.
- Duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added.
Requirements:
- Over 1 years’ experience of working in Early Years - Essential
- Sound knowledge of the statutory framework for the EYFS and regulatory requirements - Essential
- Over 1 years’ experience of working in a management position - Desirable.
- Level 5 qualification in Childcare and/or Management and Leadership - Desirable
- Experience of successfully passing an Ofsted inspection to good or outstanding – Desirable.
Take the next step and explore a role that makes a positive impact on children’s lives. Apply today and let our friendly recruitment team support you every step of the way. We can’t wait to welcome you to the Family First community!
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.
Kloisters Kindergarten 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.