Deputy Nursery Manager

Department: Estates & Facilities – Nursery
Salary: £43,617 – £51,111 per annum (Grade 4)
Reference: 1448
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 13 March 2024
Closing date: 1 April 2024

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Overview

About Role

Westfield Nursery is a high performing nursery owned and run by Queen Mary University of London for the children of students, staff, and families from the local community. It offers 65 full time child places within the five age-based rooms and has a strong reputation for quality and best practice.

This would be an ideal opportunity for an experienced Senior room leader, room based assistant manager or a current Deputy looking for a new and exciting challenge.

Our purpose built; nursery needs an individual to help our dedicated staff team in maintaining an atmosphere that nurtures children under five.

About You

The successful candidate must possess a minimum of a Level 3 childcare qualification, such as the Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce, along with some relevant management experience. Experience in a supervisory role with strong people management skills, understanding of the Statutory Early Years Foundation framework 2024, and the ability to convey its guidance to others are required. Additionally, an understanding of health and safety legislation and its practical implementation in an early years setting is essential. The candidate will also be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the setting’s SEN policy and coordinating provision across the setting.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.

The post is full time (40 hours per week), permanent appointment.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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