Pre-School Deputy Manager

Greenleas School, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 2AB

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  2 November 2025 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  10 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £19,125.00 - £20,056.00 Annually (Actual)

Pre-School Deputy Manager job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Early Years Team as a Deputy Pre-school Manager. Working closely with the Pre-school Manager, you will provide safe, high-quality education and care for early years children. You will be responsible for the leadership and management of SEND support in our pre-school. We have undertaken work to review and develop our pre-school and are looking for a forward thinking, enthusiastic team player to support our manager with the next steps in our journey.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has at least three years’ experience of working in an early years care
• Has proven knowledge of SEND support plans, preferably experience of completing SEND support plans and EHCHNA applications
• Has Level 3 early years’ education and childcare qualification or equivalent
• Is able to implement a pre-school curriculum, considering the SEN Code of Practice, child protection procedures and equal opportunities considerations.
• Will ensure that the welfare and safety of children is promoted within the setting and that any child protection concerns are always acted upon appropriately and immediately
• Understands and is able to implement inclusive practices into the setting, to ensure all children have the opportunity to learn, interact and fulfil their potential.
• Can create a safe, stimulating and welcoming environment which reflects and includes the individual needs and interests of all children.
• Can effectively deputise in the manager's absence
• Will ensure that staff are appropriately supported to carry out their role effectively
  

We offer:

• A vibrant and welcoming atmosphere
• Friendly children
• Great opportunities for professional development
• A supportive, hard-working, collaborative and committed staff team

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who can help us better reflect the diverse ethnic backgrounds of our pupils and wider community.

We operate a safer recruitment policy and follow the CBC Code of Practice. Our recruitment process includes undertaking online searches in line with the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which, for any other purposes, are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Greenleas School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. We will carry out enhanced DBS checks where necessary on all staff and take references. Please note that online searches are undertaken as part of the safer recruitment process.

Central Bedfordshire Council Schools are equal opportunities employers and welcome applications from all members of the community.

Please advise us if you have a disability, learning difficulties, medical conditions or needs for which you would like us to make reasonable adjustments so that your application and working experience is more accessible.

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 Greenleas School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 9
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 680 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 9
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Greenleas School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/greenleas-school

We are a two-site school in the market town of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. We have over five hundred and sixty main school pupils in addition to those attending our Early Years provision which brings our total number to nearly seven hundred. We have one hundred and thirty staff across both sites.

We have a senior and middle leadership structure, providing opportunities for career development.

Our teachers have shared PPA on a Friday afternoon and come together across both sites for our staff meeting/Inset every Wednesday. We plan as a team across both sites.

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