Nursery Manager
Nursery: Windmill Nursery School
Hours: 40 Hours per week, Monday-Friday, Full Time MATERNITY COVER for 12 months
Salary: £16.50ph dependent on qualifications and experience.
Hi, I’m Jessica, the Nursery Manager at Windmill Nursery.
Every day at Windmill, we encourage children to be inquisitive and creative in our stimulating learning environment. In doing so, they quickly develop a real love of learning and a naturally curious mind.
Our experienced team brings a wealth of early years insight. We understand that every child is unique, with their own story to tell, so we make sure each child learns in a way—and at a pace—that’s just right for them.
Our happy, welcoming nursery is a space where children can imagine, explore and grow—whether they’re enjoying our creative play and sensory rooms, or heading outside to discover adventures in our large garden. We love bringing the indoors outside, often tailoring planned experiences to make the most of our outdoor spaces.
We work in close partnership with parents, building strong relationships that enrich each child’s development. Our home-from-home environment uses natural resources to spark imagination and wonder.
We’re proud to be part of such a vibrant and diverse community, and we celebrate a wide variety of cultural festivals throughout the year with our children and families.
Who & What is Storal?
It’s our collective group of Nurseries that we are happily apart of here at Windmill. Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and are passionate about Early Years. Bringing your whole self is a must if that’s pink hair, being Neurospicy or having a unique pastime, we encourage it all. Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better. Check out our website to learn about our leaders and the expertise they bring to our Storal community.
About you
You are a Level 3 or above qualified, experienced Nursery Manager who thrives on leading by example, and inspiring others to be the best that they can be.
You love supporting and encouraging the natural curiosity and excitement of young children, whilst also motivating your team to do the same.
You have a natural, nurturing openness, along with a warm and positive outlook, and you care about learning and education standards for young children in the UK.
What you'll be doing
Day to day as a Nursery Manager you will be an intrinsic part of the nursery management team ensuring the setting has the right staff, culture, policies and resources to deliver the highest possible standards of childcare and early years education.
You will offer solutions where you identify areas for improvements whether that relates to learning and teaching techniques or, creating more stimulating experiences and environments for the children and their educators. You will embrace inclusivity to ensure the individual needs of all those within your care are achieved.
You will encourage a love of learning through high quality teaching under the EYFS framework, ensuring that all children are kept safe and have rich stimulating experiences. You'll do this by leading, motivating and inspiring the educators, managing ratios through the staff rotas, attracting new hires and providing learning and developing opportunities to the team. You will also deputise for the Nursery Manager during their absence.
What you'll need
A full and relevant Early Years Education qualification Level 3 or above or equivalent
Experience in a managerial role including nursery administration or similar
A strong knowledge and understanding EYFS framework
Reflecting the Storal values around responsibility, openness and working together and experienced in providing staff training and support
Demonstrable leadership qualities (ideally within Early Years)
Excellent communication skills with both children and adults
Why work for us:
Family Friendly Benefits- enhanced parents leave including maternity, paternity & adoption & Childcare Discount at 75% off all fees & 100% discounts when returning from maternity leave
Wellbeing & Refuel Benefits- extra day off per year for your wellbeing and access to modern-day, progressive mental health support & sick pay
Physical Health – Discounts with XX
Financial Perks- emergency cash access to your pay before pay date, free financial coaching
Social Perks – online community for peer-to-peer socializing eg. book club, pets club, pinecones club & continuous professional development accessible to you at anytime
Plus, many more.
We care about our people.
Curious to know more?
We’d love to tell you more about what makes Windmill so special.
Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.
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- Nursery Management
- Role
- Nursery Manager
- Locations
- Windmill Nursery School
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