Nursery Manager
Loose Primary School, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 9UW28 days remaining to apply
Start date details
February 2026 provided employment checks completed
Closing date
9 January 2026 at 7am
Date listed
12 December 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £27,852.00 Annually (Actual)
Nursery Manager job summary
Little Loose Nursery:
Recruiting a Nursery Manager and Nursery Team
Little Loose Nursery is launching soon, completing our whole-school vision for education at Loose Primary School. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to shape something exceptional from day one. We are building a brand-new nursery within our outstanding EYFS environment, set in beautiful grounds, and we are recruiting a Nursery Manager and a team of dedicated Nursery Practitioners to bring it to life.
As part of Loose Primary School and the Coppice Primary Partnership, you will benefit from exceptional CPD, high-quality professional support, and the opportunity to grow within a forward-thinking organisation that puts children’s needs, character development, and adaptive teaching at the heart of its work.
We are seeking a Nursery Manager who can lead with vision, expertise, and creativity, supported by a committed team who share the same ambition. Whether you are the new manager or someone to support, together, you will shape a stunning nursery provision that reflects our core philosophy: play as the vehicle for deep, meaningful learning. Core working hours for Nursery Manager will be 8.30am - 4.30pm with half hour unpaid lunch break. This is a 37 hour per week role.
Key features of this opportunity
Build a brand-new nursery from the ground up, shaping the vision, ethos, and direction of travel.
Work alongside our EYFS Team Leader to draft an adaptive, child-centred curriculum that meets the needs of all pupils.
Lead and support a team committed to delivering the highest quality of learning and character development.
Be part of an organisation that invests in people, values innovation, and champions professional growth.
Work in fabulous surroundings with outstanding facilities and space to design truly inspiring early years learning environments.
Join a partnership that expects ambition and supports excellence.
We want practitioners who go above and beyond for children, who believe in early years as the foundation for life, and who are excited by the chance to shape something remarkable.
If you are passionate, values-driven, and ready to help build the nursery our community deserves, we want to hear from you.
Please do view the attached document with images showing how our new nursery is expected to look.
The benefits of joining Coppice Primary Partnership:
Excellent professional development
The support of committed, enthusiastic and dedicated colleagues
A supportive and challenging environment
Pupils who are eager to learn and a credit to the school
Supportive parents
Access to private healthcare, including 24 hour GP access
A family first approach - cover to ensure that you don’t miss important family events
Free access to wraparound care for primary aged children attending trust schools when staff are required to work. This includes access to the holiday play scheme.
The holiday play scheme is also open and free to staff who have children who attend other schools when staff are required to work.
All staff have access to Kent Rewards, a site offering cash back, discounts and vouchers for a range of popular high street stores
Throughout the year, school and trust wide social events will be available. These will all be optional, but we believe in developing relationships and social events can certainly help! Events will be informal affairs, usually in informal settings and are open to all staff
A large, modern and well-resourced primary school, set in excellent school grounds, where opportunities for high quality outdoor learning are facilitated
An opportunity to share a real, relevant and engaging curriculum.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children, and expects our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applications made are subject to a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Please note, we review applications on a rolling-basis and will therefore close the advert early if we find the right candidate, we look forward to receiving your application.
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 Loose Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 4 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 657 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Loose Primary School website
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