Head of Childcare

**Job Introduction**:

- Discipline:

- Children's Centres and Childcare
- Job type:

- Full Time
- Contact name:

- Deborah Brown

We are looking for a **Head of Childcare** to lead a team of highly qualified nursery staff at our Better Nurseries based at Vista Field & Storkway Children’s Centres in Greenwich, Southeast London.

This role is required for 36 hours per week from 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday (some occasional weekend working may also be required if there is an open day). Better Nurseries are operated by GLL, the UK's largest leisure provider and charitable social enterprise. Vista Field Nursery is registered as a 52-place setting for 0-4-year-olds and Storkway Creche takes 16 x 2yr olds in the morning and currently 12 x 2yr olds in the afternoon. Both settings aim to create a safe, fun and stimulating environment through play and supporting the integrated approach to early learning and care. The emphasis is to ensure the children in our care are physically active every day with a particular focus on outdoor learning through play.

The Head of Childcare is a key role that oversees the day-to-day running of the settings in line with the statutory framework and aiming for Ofsted excellence. You'll lead the implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage including overseeing the planning and record keeping. An enthusiastic and inspirational manager, your leadership style will motivate your staff team as well as ultimately ensuring the children are well looked after, content and stimulated and their parents are happy too.

We're looking for someone with experience of managing a Nursery team. You'll have a Level 3 in Childcare, or a higher Early Years qualification.

You will understand the role of Children's Centres and understand equality and diversity is of the utmost importance as our service users come from a variety of backgrounds and cultures with differing needs, including children with Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

You'll need to be organised and hands-on as you'll do everything from recruitment and retention of staff, to arranging staffing/rotas in accordance with statutory regulations and budgets. Naturally you'll be a great communicator as you'll not only need to engage and encourage the children, but you'll also need to develop and maintain professional working relationships with local authority departments, regulatory bodies and other agencies. Mostly though, your passion for seeing the children develop, grow and progress will be what helps you make this role a success.

As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees:

- A salary of £38,575 to 47,491 per annum
- A values driven organisation
- Learning & development to support career development
- Good pension schemes
- Discounted gym membership for you and your partner
- The opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say on how we run plus associated events
- Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal & Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria
- Career Pathways, professional development is just the start. To ensure your stay on top of your game we provide training with practical and theory elements too
- Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
- 25% off Red Letter Days
- 25% off Buy a Gift
- 20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products
- Ride to work scheme
- Free eye tests and discounted glasses

About GLL:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time work options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.

So, whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working within a childcare environment, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.

However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to