Nursery Manager

Millbrook Combined School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP12 4BA

15 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  2 November 2026

• Closing date

  1 August 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  17 July 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: £34,319.00 Annually (FTE)

Nursery Manager job summary

To lead, manage, and develop the maintained school’s nursery setting. You ensure high-quality early years education in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework. You work under the strategic direction of the Deputy Headteacher (DHT) for Teaching & Learning (T&L). You collaborate closely with Reception Team Leaders to ensure seamless curriculum progression and excellent transition into school life.

Job title: Nursery Manager

Responsible to: Deputy Headteacher - Teaching and Learning

Qualification: Level 5 Early Years Qualification

Condition: Bucks Pay Range 5 (£34,319 - £36.975) FTE, 41 weeks per year, 37 hours per week

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Direction & Quality of Teaching

• Line Management: Report directly to the Deputy Headteacher for Teaching & Learning.
• Curriculum Alignment: Design an ambitious EYFS curriculum that directly connects to the school's overall T&L framework.
• Reception Collaboration: Work side-by-side with Reception Team Leaders to align tracking, learning goals, and teaching strategies.
• Transition Excellence: Create and execute a robust transition plan to ensure children move seamlessly from Nursery into Reception.
• Data & Assessment: Monitor student progress, identify learning gaps, and present data reports regularly to the DHT.

Operations & Staff Management

• Team Leadership: Lead, inspire, and manage daily operations for nursery nurses, assistants, and support staff.
• Performance Management: Assist the DHT in conducting performance reviews and identifying staff development (CPD) needs.
• Rosters & Ratios: Maintain accurate staff deployment to meet statutory adult-to-child ratio requirements.
• Maintained Compliance: Operate within local authority funding models, admissions policies, and school budget limits.

Safeguarding, Health & Safety

• Safeguarding Lead: Act as a central figure for safeguarding within the early years phase.
• Compliance: Maintain flawless health, safety, and hygiene standards in line with school policies.
• Risk Assessments: Conduct and update risk assessments for all nursery spaces and trips.
• Record Keeping: Keep highly accurate, confidential student records that strictly comply with GDPR.

Partnership & Collaboration

• Parent Engagement: Maintain open, informative communication with parents to support home-school learning.
• Specialist Liaison: Coordinate with the school SENCO and external agencies to support children with SEND.
• Whole-School Life: Integrate the nursery into wider school events, assemblies, and termly initiatives.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.

About Millbrook Combined School

• Organisation type: Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 11
• Education phase: Primary school
• Size: 628 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Millbrook Combined School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/millbrook-combined-school

Here at Millbrook Combined School we get to know our children well as every child is special. We expect children to do their best and we have high expectations in relation to appearance, attitudes, behaviour, courtesy and work. We also demand high standards of ourselves. We pledge to provide high quality teaching and resources to help children learn.

Millbrook Combined is a successful primary school with a strong reputation in both the local community and wider educational environment. We are looking to appoint facility assistants as part of our development plan for growth in the coming years. We have various facility growth plans throughout the school including car parking, our own on site cafeteria, two main halls for hiring, swimming pool hire and more.

Please see our website for more information: www.millbrook.bucks.sch.uk

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