Nursery Manager
The Meadows Primary Academy, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST3 3AZ12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
11 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
28 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 36.25 hours per week Term time only plus 5 days inset (39 weeks)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 8 – SCP 28-33 £32,655 - £37,035 FTE (Pay award pending)
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and experienced Nursery Manager to lead our Nursery class.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day organisation and management of the nursery class, key responsibilities will include:
- Planning and delivering an engaging and age-appropriate curriculum in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework and our school’s nursery curriculum plan.
- Monitoring, assessing and reporting on pupils’ progress and attainment.
- Leading and supporting nursery staff in the delivery of high-quality learning experiences.
- Organising and managing the nursery learning environment to ensure it is stimulating, safe and inclusive.
- Acting as the main point of contact for parents, including leading parent meetings and providing regular updates on children's development.
The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge and experience of the EYFS curriculum, a strong track record of delivering whole-class carpet sessions and early years teaching and proven ability to plan, prepare, assess and monitor learning effectively.
This position is particularly suitable for a Higher-Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) or a Senior Early Years Practitioner (EYP) who has experience leading learning and is ready to take on the added responsibility of full class leadership, including curriculum planning and assessment.
The Meadows Primary Academy is an ambitious and inclusive community school with passion for delivering high quality education and our staff are innovative, hardworking and motivated.
At The Meadows, we aim to give our amazing children the very best. Our mission focuses on children, and adults, on the high expectations we have of our school community. Our 6 core values define our ‘personal excellence’ and are the backbone of our school. They guide our behaviour and drive everything we do.
What the school offers its staff
Shaw Education Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching or Support Staff employment:
- An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (Support Staff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
- Support Staff only based on working full time, all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day of employment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’ service including Bank Holidays)
- Electric Car Scheme: Environmentally friendly vehicles with our electric car scheme.
- Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoy health services designed to support your well-being.
- Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Support and Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection of discounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
- Free Eye Tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Institute of Education and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute and flourish in your role and in the Trust.
We know our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed to ensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewarding one.
Colleagues within the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house and professionally accredited. These courses include all of the National Professional Qualifications – NPQH, NPQSL, NPQEYL, NPQLL, NPQLT, NPQLTD, NPQLBC are all delivered by the Shaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute. In addition, we provide access to the NPQEL for Executive Leaders.
- Experienced leadership and subject-specific support.
- Guidance from former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
- Access to the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
- Opportunities to work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
- Participating in peer reviews.
- Access to a suite of online courses.
- Placement projects within our family of schools.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About The Meadows Primary Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 375 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- The Meadows Primary Academy website
- Email address
- rosie.harrison@shaw-education.org.uk
The Meadows Primary Academy (formerly Blurton Primary School), situated in Blurton, Stoke-on-Trent, joined the Shaw Education Trust family on 1st January 2020.
At The Meadows, every child is encouraged to believe in themselves and to have high aspirations. Through promoting a positive attitude combined with a strong work ethic; our children know that they can do well in life if they work hard and aim high. This is woven into everything that we do through our core values of respect, positivity and collective responsibility.
We have a dynamic team of exceptional teachers and support staff who act as exemplary role models, educating and nurturing each child, enabling them to achieve high standards of academic attainment whilst also enabling them to become capable, caring and confident human beings. Also, over the past five years, we have achieved our aim of becoming an Attachment Aware School. Through this, we are committed to working to establish attachment-like relationships with our children, particularly with challenging and vulnerable children, in order to improve their chances of learning and achieving.
Arranging a visit to The Meadows Primary Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email rosie.harrison@shaw-education.org.uk.
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