Nursery Director

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Bright Horizons Full time
Lead Our Nursery Team to Deliver Outstanding Care

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Nursery Manager to join our team at Bright Horizons Floral Place Day Nursery and Preschool. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality care and education to our children, while also driving employee engagement, retention, and performance in the nursery.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead our nursery teams to deliver outstanding care to all the 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, optimising revenue generation and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements, to deliver and exceed the annual budgeted EBITDA
  • Engage with the Local Authority to understand the local offer, to support practice in all areas of the nursery
What We're Looking For:
  • Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification (essential)
  • Experience within an Early Years leadership role (ideally as a Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager, Assistant Manager, or similar)
  • Experience of participating with 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
  • Ability to build trust and strong working relationships with colleagues, parents, and external partners

We look forward to receiving your application.



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