Bright Horizons Recruitment – Nursery Manager

Website Bright Horizons

Job Description:

The Nursery Manager is directly responsible for the effective leadership of the nursery team, providing training, coaching and mentoring and implementing a robust performance management strategy to ensure service excellence for our current and prospective customers. This includes leading change internally and role modelling leadership behaviour in line our HEART principles, delivering or exceeding all key performance indicators and business results.

Working with the RD, Marketing, Finance and HR, the NM is responsible for managing and monitoring the commercial performance of the nursery and leading practice in nurseries to improve customer and employee engagement and retention, alongside effective staff deployment, whilst managing all costs in line with budget.

Job Requirements:

  • Able to communicate clearly with adults and children using a variety of techniques (oral and in writing)
  • Ability to lead organisational change and transformation whilst retaining staff engagement
  • Highly motivated and driven, achieving positive impact and meeting deadlines
  • Ability to build trust and develop cohesive teams – strong empathy to understand child and parents view, clear expectations and fair-minded
  • High energy and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment – calm approach and ‘can-do’ attitude
  • Able to reflect on the quality of own performance respond positively, respond positively to direction and improve
  • Encourages colleagues to realise their potential and empowers high performers
  • Able to manage workload and manage time effectively to deliver the desired results
  • Able and competent user of company ICT systems and have the willingness to learn and develop ICT skills
  • A strong record of on-going training and/or professional qualifications since qualifying
  • Demonstrable track record of driving leadership strength and development of successful ongoing performance management and impact measurements, in close partnership with HR
  • Strong decision-maker, with the proven ability to support change; a secure understanding of the complex relationship between business/commerce and service excellence within regulated setting, with the ability to follow guidelines and work with others to achieve success

Qualification & Experience:

  • Experience of developing high performing teams, with a successful record of accomplishment of supporting effective regulatory compliance, quality improvement, delivering high quality pedagogy, innovation and service excellence.
  • Experience of proving support and leadership to a staff team to enable staff in fulfil their roles, responsibilities and legislation duty in relation to safeguarding children.
  • Proven experience of working in early years education settings with successful management leading to ‘Good or better’ regulatory inspection outcomes
  • Experience of budget preparation, efficient staff deployment and rostering programmes, and managing commercial performance and reporting metrics
  • Knowledge of Local Authority and Regulatory requirements and inspection processes across the UK

Job Details:

Company:  Bright Horizons

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: London, England, UK

Application Deadline: N/A

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