Nursery Team Leader

Job Introduction

Would you like to join an employee-owned organisation that has topped the UK ‘Best Companies to Work For’ lists for 15 years, as well as been rated ‘World Class’ for its respect and support of colleagues, and ‘Climate Positive’ for its environmental achievements?

Now is your chance We have an opportunity for Team Leader (early years qualified to level 3 or above) to join the team at our Lime Grove Day Nursery in Hemel Hempstead on a full time basis.

In return for the passion, energy and enthusiasm you demonstrate as you provide every child the best possible care and early years education, we are offering you a pay rate of £12.21-£13.34 per hour.

Main Responsibilities
- Through positive interaction and purposeful engagement, you will ensure the individual needs of every child in your care are met. You will inspire and nurture your team to do the same
- You will guide and enable your team to work together to create and maintain a safe and supportive environment both indoors and out, which encourages children to confidently explore, experiment and grow
- The observations you record and share will celebrate children's achievements and identify their next steps of learning, which can collaboratively be supported both at nursery and at home. You will support, mentor and deploy your team so that their observations are just as meaningful and effective
- You will respectfully engage with parents, colleagues and external professionals in order to successfully work in partnership to uphold children's well-being

You are passionate and enthusiastic about enabling children to become happy and confident learners who can reach their full potential; the same is true of the team you lead. You’re self-motivated, naturally nurturing and a positive role model.

About The Company

Fun is an essential ingredient in all Childbase Partnership nurseries where the care and education opportunities for each and every child are as extraordinary as our colleagues who provide them.

As an employee-owned business, each and every one of our colleagues is empowered and encouraged to contribute towards the success of our future partnership through the sharing of ideas, opinions, experience and expertise. If we all contribute, we all benefit; we truly believe that.

Our Diversity Forum ensures our policy and practice is wholly inclusive and that discrimination, in all its forms, has no place within our company. Employee inclusivity, happiness and well-being is central to decision making across our partnership and as such, we invest in award-winning training, mentoring and career development programmes, in addition to offering a range of colleague perks and rewards. Your well-being, happiness and success is important to us.

We are a ‘climate positive’ business which means we save more greenhouse gas emissions than we generate, and we are committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2030. For every new colleague we welcome to our partnership we plant a tree in a Madagascan rainforest. How amazing is that?

**The Important Bits**:
Package Description
- 22 days annual leave increasing with length of service
- Potential for an annual tax-free cash bonus as an employee-owner
- Cash rewards for going ‘Beyond Expectation’
- 50% childcare discount from day one
- Annual awards dinner, staff conferences and nursery achievement celebrations
- Unlimited recommend a friend scheme (up to £1000 per recommendation)
- Qualification reward payments
- Digital learning journeys and paperless planning
- £1000 welcome bonus is available with some of our roles