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Nursery Manager - Maternity

Bronte School, Gravesend

  • Ref:KCC886-6026-55S
  • Posted:01/05/2020
  • Pay:Bronte Nursery Pay Scale
  • Start Date:July 2020
  • App Close Date:29/05/2020 at 16:00
  • Interviews:To be arranged

Advert

Nursery Manager (Maternity cover) – Full Time

Bronte Nursery

Required from July 2020

Salary:                            £27,000 - £32,000 depending on experience 

Reports to:                 Bronte Nursery Director

The Nursery Manager will be absent from July 2020 on maternity leave. A well-qualified, experienced person is now sought to cover this central role.

Key Roles

  1. (Overarching role) To steer and manage Nursery life, sustaining its ethos, and promoting a warm, happy environment for the children. To uphold staff pride and professionalism in all areas.
  2. To manage Nursery childcare operations: working through and with room leaders, to ensure effective and professional childcare and educational routines and standards
  3. As DSL, to monitor and uphold all safeguarding procedures
  4. To lead the staff team, promoting high standards and upholding morale.
  5. To be closely involved with marketing and admissions
  6. To provide high quality communication and support for parents.
  7. To oversee Nursery office and administration.

Personal Specification

Technical Skill Requirements:

  • Level 3 qualified, or bachelor’s degree in Early Years Provision
  • Full knowledge of the EYFS Statutory Framework, KCSIE and related safeguarding regulations and other regulatory requirements applicable for early years childcare, including health and safety requirements
  • experience of a management role in an Early Years setting
  • IT literacy in programmes such as MS Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint

 Personal Qualities requirements:

  • commitment and passion for children, their happiness, growth and development
  • positive attitude and a good role model for staff
  • ability to maintain a welcoming, calm manner
  • good administrative skills and methodical approach; effective oral and written communicator
  • adaptability and flexibility, with the ability to plan and prioritise own work.

Applications

Applications should comprise of a completed Nursery application form and a covering letter, which should briefly summarise the candidate’s background and reasons for applying. Applications may be sent as a hard copy or in electronic form to Miss Susan Allison by post or email susan.allison@bronteschool.co.uk . Closing date for applications Friday 29th May 2020.

Bronte Nursery, 21 Pelham Road, Gravesend, Kent DA11 8QW; 01474 355106 (t); www.brontenursery.co.uk

Bronte School and Nursery Ltd is an equal opportunities employer. The School and the Nursery are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate for this post will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

 

 

Information about the school

Bronte School is an independent preparatory school for children aged 3 to 11. The School’s ethos is based upon the twin pillars of academic excellence and of being a family school. A stimulating and purposeful curriculum is accompanied by high quality academic management, which aims to provide inspiration and challenge for all the children of the school, analysing in detail progress and attainment for each individual boy and girl. Educational breadth is seen as complementary to depth and level of study. Art, music, PE and drama take their place alongside the humanities, languages, science, and the core subjects of English and mathematics.

The School has considerable success in supporting children through to a place at their first-choice school. For many this is a selective or super-selective grammar school, whilst others also go on independent schools or other types of state schools. Another route is to a major 13-18 boarding school, via a feeder prep school for Years 7 and 8.

Bronte is a small school, of around 150 pupils, in a single class entry, with maximum class size of 20. The teachers are dedicated, professional and supportive, caring deeply for the children and getting to know them very well. This personal attention forms a central part of the School’s family atmosphere. Pastoral care is very strong, and is seen as fundamental to the children’s success, happiness and sense of self-fulfilment.

The School has a Christian tradition, at the same time as having extensive diversity in the ethnic and cultural composition of its families, reflecting that of the local area.

Bronte is privately owned, by Nicholas Clements. As Proprietor, he is responsible for the governance of the School. The Headmistress is Emma Wood. There is an Advisory Board, which provides support for the governance.

Bronte Nursery, the School’s sister setting, is a large, high quality nursery, ages 3 months to 4 years. It is located about 200m away, also on Pelham Road.

Job Contact Information

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.