Nursery Director

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Nursery Manager to lead our teams in delivering exceptional care to children in our setting. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for driving employee engagement, retention, and performance in the nursery.

• Lead our nursery teams to deliver outstanding care to all children in your setting
• Drive employee engagement, retention, and performance in the nursery
• Work in partnership with Recruitment and HR to ensure your nursery is fully recruited, encouraging a diverse workforce
• Role model and mentor your nursery team to ensure the highest quality early childhood practice and experience for all children
• 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
• 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
• Work with the Regional Director, Finance, and Marketing teams to identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE growth within the nursery
• Commercial delivery of the nursery performance, optimizing revenue generation and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements, to deliver and exceed the annual budgeted EBITDA

• Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification
• Experience within an Early Years leadership role, ideally as a Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager, Assistant Manager, or similar
• Experience of participating in a regulatory inspection, leading to a "Good" or "Outstanding" outcome
• Experience of developing high-performance teams, with effective regulatory compliance, quality improvement, delivery of high-quality pedagogy, innovation, and service excellence
• Confident decision maker, with the ability to support change and the understanding of the complex relationship between business/commerce and service excellence within a regulated setting
• Strong knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, Child Protection, and the wider legislative requirements for working with children

We are driven by our HEART values (Honesty, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork). If your values align, you would be a great fit to join one of our 300 nurseries across the UK. We have been voted Great Place to Work every year since and have achieved Great Place for Wellbeing and Great Place for Women.

Did you know that 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.