The Little Learners Montessori Northwood Nursery
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent, 40 hours
Salary: Up to £32,000.00 per year
Schedule: 8 hour shift, Monday to Friday, No Weekends
School type: Day nursery
Work Location: Northwood
Why The Little Learners?
First established in 1993, The Little Learners is a family run business with a dedicated team of highly trained Montessori staff and qualified childcare specialists. We offer Montessori education from 6 months – 5 years.
As a family business, we strive to create a nurturing environment for our staff to grow and excel. We invest the time and effort to support all our staff to continue their professional development through our excellent, newly refurbished training company, Montessori Apprentice Academy.
What we’re looking for:
The Nursery Deputy Manager is a qualified childcare professional with responsibility for the day to-day running of the nursery in the absence of the Manager. They perform an important role caring for children, maintaining a high-quality, stimulating learning environment, supervising staff and imparting their knowledge and skills to others. They are creative and reflective leaders able to implement new ideas and use a range of strategies to continually improve practice and support the Manager in their day to day role.
Main Duties:
- Provide high standards of childcare and education – this includes providing a safe, caring environment to enable the emotional, social and educational development of children, through individual attention and group activities.
- To support the aims and objectives of the nursery and assist the proprietor in the organisation of a high quality establishment.
- To reflect on practice and routines, tailoring them to meet the individual needs of each child throughout the day.
- To lead planning and the provision of a stimulating range of age-appropriate activities and ensuring your room is well-resourced and creatively set-up.
- To work in partnership with all parents/carers, building and maintaining relationships that encourage trust, open communication and involvement in nursery life.
- To assist the Manager in showing prospective parents around the nursery facilities.
- To lead observations and the assessment of children’s learning and development ensuring records are kept up-to-date, are of a high standard and are shared effectively.
- To promote stimulating resources for the children to engage and develop in.
- To report any concerns promptly to your Manager or Area Manager.
- To deal with the planning and organisation of staffing schedules.
- To conduct the administrative procedures to include chairing staff meetings, planning agenda, recording minutes.
- To assist the Manager with the welfare requirements- e.g. visitor sign in and out book, staff and child register, admissions forms, allergy list, first aid box, risk assessments, accidents/incidents etc.
- To be aware and make aware of any children who have special needs, ensure appropriate action is taken where such a child is identified. Ensure that the SENCO in charge carries out their duties to refer any child who has SEN and works accordingly with external agencies.
- To take on Managerial duties- in the absence of the Manager.
This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties and the post holder will be required to undertake any other reasonable duties discussed and directed by the line manager.
What we can offer you:
- Performance bonus of £300 per annum, £100 per term
- Annual appraisal and coaching meetings to support well-being and development.
- Termly team bonding events, as well as our annual Christmas & Summer party.
- Free access to a variety of CPD courses and regular online workshops through our apprentice academy to support your continuous professional development.
- Option to study on our Montessori Diploma or Apparatus Workshops (9 days) to develop your understanding of Montessori free of charge
- Annual Professional Development Day, receiving award winning workshops specially created for our leadership staff.
- Free DBS
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The safeguarding of all our children is our highest priority and therefore a clear and valid DBS, as well as two references will be required from all successful candidates.
If this role is of any interest, please contact Roxy via email directly with your CV to be considered for the role.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £32,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Wellness programme
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Application question(s):
- Do you hold a Level 3 Qualification in Childcare?
- What makes you a ‘Good Fit’ for The Little Learners Team?
