Footsteps Nursery, Lakehouse
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, help extend the child’s learning. Create, plan, and implement activities and experience which help 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, various shifts patterns between the opening and closing times of the nursery 7:00am-18:30pm.
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, recognising 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.
- To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn
- Undertake 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 7.30-6.30pm 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
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 skillsets. 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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Family First benefits include annual leave starting at 24 days on top of a paid birthday day off and bank holidays. On top of this we have discounted nursery fees for all our teams, friends and family, access to a discount/perks platform with exceptional learning & development opportunities tailored to you.
*All perks are pro-rota 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
Established in 2019, we are UK’s fastest growing childcare provider and it’s our ambition to grow further by acquiring well run local nurseries that provide outstanding quality childcare and we strive to provide an enjoyable working environment for all our team. Whether you are working in one of our nurseries, or as part of our support team, you’ll feel part of the family. It’s always been like this, it’s in our DNA.
If you love childcare as much as we do, you’ll fit right in. We know that choosing your next career move is a big step, but fear not – our people are our most important asset and we make a big deal when it comes to taking care of you!
From humble beginnings with a very small team, Family First began its journey with just 4 nurseries within London and has grown to 100 nurseries across the UK. Although we have grown, we have stayed true to our values, ensuring the highest possible standard of childcare, with a passion for developing our teams.
Our people are passionate about creating a special environment for all of the children within our care to flourish. Whilst there’s lots of hard work involved, to ensure that all our children are provided with the best possible standard of care, it’s the fact that we all love working with children, believe in what we do and have a lot of fun doing it that really helps us pull together, to create the highest quality of childcare that we’ve become famous for.
It’s the reason that parents choose to trust us with their children; because when you enjoy caring for children and seeing them develop into wonderful young people as much as we do, the feeling to have enriched someone’s early years journey is truly overwhelming.