Deputy Nursery Manager
Ark Schools, London, W11 4AN9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
12 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
27 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,543 to £34,074 (depending on experience)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Key Requirements:
- Minimum Level 3 Diploma in Early Years Education and Care or equivalent
- Right to work in the UK
- An awareness of keeping children safe, noticing safeguarding and welfare concerns, and knowing how and when to take appropriate action
- A team player that can work collaboratively as well as using own initiative
What the school offers its staff
Benefits:
- A Real Living Wage Employer: We are a Real Living Wage employer with a minimum salary of £13.15 per hour for all roles in London. We also pay 11% pension contributions
- Ongoing Learning: We are committed to providing the best development for all our staff. We close the nurseries for five days each year to focus on staff training and ensure there is protected time for training and supervision each week for every adult. We work hard to ensure there are clear career progression routes
- Annual leave: We are proud of our staff and want everyone to feel valued for playing their part. That’s why staff receive 25 days holiday each year, excluding bank holidays
- Wellbeing: Staff wellbeing is incredibly important to us. We know that while incredibly rewarding, working in a nursery can be challenging. We therefore work hard to ensure all staff have the support and infrastructure they need to take care of their wellbeing
- Part of a Network: Ark Start is part of Ark, a charity that aims to transform children’s lives through education. Ark operates a network of 39 schools across London, Birmingham, Portsmouth, and Hastings as well as a number of charitable ventures. Being part of a network means our staff get access to the opportunities, infrastructure, and support of a large organisation
Further details about the role
Reporting to: Headteacher, Ark Start
Location: Acton and West Croydon
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Closing date:12/07/2024 at 10am
Interviews: w/c 15/07/2024
Salary:£29,543 to £34,074 (depending on experience)
About the role:
As we expand, we are looking for two Deputy Managers to join the founding team at Ark Start Nurseries. In this role, you will provide the highest standards of physical, emotional, social, and intellectual care for all children in your care. You'll ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare and safety are promoted, and you'll work to provide an enabling environment in which all children can play, learn, and develop.
We are particularly looking for individuals who have a genuine passion for young children and who are eager to progress into leadership roles. With the skill, creativity, commitment, energy, and enthusiasm required for leading room practice, you'll play a crucial part in shaping the future of our nursery. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to take learning beyond the classroom, engaging in outdoor and forest learning, cooking, and gardening activities. This won't just be another day in the classroom!
Key Responsibilities:
- Encouraging young children to enjoy learning about their environment through fun games and activities
- Encouraging the development of social awareness through interactions with other children
- Ensuring that classrooms and outside play areas are child-friendly and safe
- Promoting high standards of the nursery at all times to parents, staff, and visitors
- Keep records of all children’s development and learning journals and share this with parents and carers and ensure all record keeping is up to date and accurate
Commitment to safeguarding
Ark is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. In order to meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants.
All employees must undertake an enhanced DBS check. You are required, before appointment, to disclose any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. Non-disclosure may lead to termination of employment. However, disclosure of a criminal background will not necessarily debar you from employment - this will depend upon the nature of the offence(s) and when they occurred.
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About Ark Schools
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- HR@arkstart.org.uk
We’re an international charity, transforming lives through education. We exist to give every young person, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life. In the UK, we’re a network of 39 schools, educating around 28,500 pupils in areas where we can make the biggest difference and we’re recognised as one of the highest achieving academy groups in the country. We want to change the lives of children everywhere, not just in our own schools. So, we create and incubate Ventures designed not only to help pupils in Ark schools, but also to improve education systems.
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