Nursery Manager
Blackfield Primary and Nursery School, Southampton, Hampshire, SO45 1XA9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
To be negotiated with the successful candidate
Closing date
24 April 2026 at 1pm
Date listed
25 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £33,178.00 - £36,369.00 Annually (FTE) See Trust Pay Policy for further details
Nursery Manager job summary
Hours: 37.5 per week (8am-4pm, including an unpaid break of 30 minutes),
Actual Salary: £28,808 - £31,579
This is a permanent role.
Join Us in Making a Real Difference at Blackfield Primary School and Nursery
We are a school where you’ll feel part of something truly special — a place where every child is known, valued, and supported.
At Blackfield Primary School and Nursery our dedicated and skilled team of practitioners champion a culture of nurture, respect, and resilience, ensuring that all children are inspired to achieve the best possible outcomes.
The role will involve being responsible for the day-to-day management, staffing, organisation and smooth running of the Nursery, ensuring that the best possible environment and care are provided for the pupils. You will also have the opportunity to work as part of our Early Years Team. The attached job description and person specification provides further information.
Why Choose Us?
We’re part of Inspire Learning Partnership, a forward-thinking, research-led Trust that puts people first. When you join us, you’re not just taking a job — you’re joining a community where your voice is heard, your development is invested in, and your wellbeing is genuinely prioritised.
What We Offer:
- 🧘 Staff wellbeing at the core of our culture, not just in policy but in practice
- 💫 Be part of a Trust that’s small enough to know you, but big enough to invest in you
- 🌱 A tailored induction and clear, supportive, career development pathways
- 🧠 A research-led culture where innovation, curiosity and brave thinking are encouraged
- 🏖️ Longer holidays than maintained schools, including a 2-week October half-term
- 💬 Access to high quality professional development, collaborative networks and inspiring colleagues
- 💰 Competitive salary
- 🚴 Blue Light Card, Cycle to Work scheme, Halfords & Tredz discount
You'll be a fantastic fit if you:
- ✨Are enthusistic, innovative and keen to develop yourself as a professional
- 🛡️ Are committed to safeguarding and supporting all pupils to thrive
- 🤝 Value collaboration and want to contribute to a wider professional community
- 🌍 Want to be the change in a child's life
- 🏗️ Believe in building strong, collaborative, relationships with pupils, families, and colleagues
- 📅 Appreciate the flexibilty the role affords
Has this role got your name on it?
If you have any further questions or would like to arrange a tour of the base setting, please contact the school directly: info.bps@ilpartnership.org,
Early application is encouraged as we anticipate significant interest and therefore reserve the right to interview exceptional candidates prior to the closing date.
Our commitment to safeguarding
Inspire Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
An enhanced DBS check is required for all roles in regulated activity. The specific safeguarding responsibilities of this role are outlined within Part One of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025.
Further details concerning our safeguarding policies and procedures, including our statement on the Rehabilitation of Offenders, can be found on the Trust website.
As part of our due diligence and in line with the recommendation made in Keeping Children Safe in Education, the Trust reserves the right to undertake online searches on shortlisted candidates. Further details about our searches can be found within our Recruitment Policy.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Blackfield Primary and Nursery School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary school
- School size
- 435 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Blackfield Primary and Nursery School website
Blackfield Primary School is a member of the multi-academy trust, Inspire Learning Partnership, and benefits from the many opportunities being part of this Trust offers to all its staff and pupils.
It is a large, three form entry Primary School on the Waterside area in the New Forest. The school is very well resourced with technology and we have a large amount of space to enable our teachers to provide the best quality education.
Also, Blackfield Primary School has a strong emphasis on CPD and growing our staff to be future leaders.
Blackfield Primary school also benefits from having an additional week holiday, making the October half term a two week break.
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