Nursery Manager

Being a Nursery Manager for Your Coop Childcare means you get to combine your sociable, customer focused nature with your enthusiasm and passion for childcare! In this role, you will play a leading role in overseeing the running of the nursery, managing budgets, supporting colleagues, and building great relationships with your parents and children all while working for a business that puts people at the heart of everything they do.

As a Nursery Manager you will be responsible for: 

• Playing a key role in creating a safe, welcoming and stimulating environment that promotes children’s learning
• You will effectively manage the day to day running of the nursery delivering outstanding standards of care and education in partnership with colleagues, parents and children
• Be accountable for meeting all objectives and nursery targets with a commercial and people focus, ensuring the nursery if efficient and profitable
• Lead the nursery team with a positive and passionate outlook, being able to deal with any conflict resolution while developing yourself and others through professional development and monitoring performance
• Be happy to be big on our differences and maintain minimum operating standards
• You will be big on inspiring, exciting, and challenging colleagues to deliver the best childcare and education

You may be thinking what makes Coop Childcare unique? Why should I join? Here are three reasons why you should join the society! 

1. Community – We put our people at the heart of everything we do and are never afraid to offer a helping hand 
2. Culture – We have a flexible and unique working culture where everyone has the platform to voice how we can do better
3. Opportunity – We pride ourselves on the foundation that everyone should have the ability to grow and prosper

Joining us means you will be part of something amazing and it also means you will have access to lots of great benefits including: 

• 10% Coop Discount (20% every payday weekend on food)  
• Coop Exclusive Discounts (Who doesn’t love a discount) 
• 22 Days Annual Leave (Because we all need a break) 
• Coop Society Membership (Because we want to know how we can do better)  
• 3 Days a Year for Volunteering Hours (Now more than ever we need to support one another)
• GroceryAid Colleague Support (Because sometimes we all need a helping hand) 
• Refer a Friend Reward Scheme (We want everyone to shout how a business should be run)
• Training and Development Opportunities (Because everyone can be themselves)

During these ever-changing and uncertain times, we want to reassure you that we are still recruiting in our nursery and your application is very important to us.  It is always our number 1 priority to keep our practitioners and children safe, therefore we have implemented measures in order to do this such as providing our teams with access to hand sanitiser and PPE, including face masks, while our nurseries are being regularly and thoroughly cleaned thanks to our new deep cleaning system.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• Minimum Level 3 Qualification in Early Years (Level 4 Desirable) 
• Minimum two years early years’ experience
• Early years management experience preferable
• ICT qualification preferable or very good knowledge of Microsoft applications
• Excellent knowledge of the EYFS and Ofsted Early Education inspection Framework