Junior Nursery Manager
Dudley, ENG, GB
JobDescription ---------------------- JobTitle: Junior Nursery Manager Remuneration: £13.86 per hour + benefits Working Hours: 40hours per week with flexibility required to ensure regular working across alldays and session times. Location: YMCAHayes Lane Day Nursery Responsibleto: Area Manager and Deputy Area Manager Background: YMCABlack Country Group (YMCA BCG) is the branch of the YMCA global movement in theBlack Country. YMCA BCG operatescharitable companies \& associated trading subsidiaries in the Black Countryboroughs and South Staffordshire area. The combined turnover of the group is inexcess of £6M, delivering a wide range of community services includingsupported housing, youth work, childcare and family support, drug and alcoholcounselling, skills and employment training, health and well-beingservices. YMCA BCG employs over 200staff and also works with around 50 volunteers and voluntary trustees. Job Role: Asa Junior Manager you will be expected to manage and be accountable for the dayto day running of the childcare provision, with the support of a Senior NurseryManager. Toensure that the setting provides safe, caring, and stimulating environments forall registered children aged 6 weeks to 5 years. Toensure that the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework is implementedeffectively within the setting. Tolead and nurture staff to enable them to deliver high quality provision andoutcomes. Tomaximise occupancy levels and manage income and expenditure within agreedbudgets. Responsibility for the delivery, promotion and practice of safeguardingpolicies and procedures, ensuring the safeguarding of all children in theNursery is a priority. Main Duties: Operations 1. Toensure all children and their parents/carers that attend the Nursery areenthusiastically greeted/welcomed by name on their arrival, are actively valuedand included for the full duration of each session. To both role model andcommunicate it is a vocation to provide child care. 2. Tobe a key holder for the Nursery building, ensuring that alarms are deactivated,premises are safe and health and safety checks completed. 3. Toensure that the Nursery is adequately staffed at all times, ensuring statutorychild/worker ratios are consistently adhered to and that staff are effectivelydeployed. This will include the production of staff rotas and room plans. 4. Toestablish and implement procedures to ensure that the building is safe at alltimes, ensuring that all activities are timetabled, that access is properlycontrolled and that all necessary risk assessments are completed. 5. Toensure all trips are operated safely and securely at all times including thecompletion of appropriate risk assessments, with due regard for example toregistration of children, child/staff ratios, and health and safety. 6. Ensurethat the Nursery Food Policy is implemented and delivered by all staff. Thatall food and drink given to the children meets their individual dietary/faithrequirements and comes only from the childcare kitchen or another approvedsource. Ensure that high standards of food hygiene and safety are maintained atall times by all staff when serving food to children. Ensure that all staffhave relevant Food Hygiene training. 7. Toensure basic Paediatric First Aid is available at all times by appropriatelytrained and qualified staff and that the Accident Policy is adhered to by allstaff, and monitoring information submitted for the Associations Health \&Safety Committee. 8. Toensure the Nursery operates at all times within and follows the Associations Safeguarding Children and Young Peoplepolicy. Ensure that all staff and othersworking in the nursery have the minimum necessary safeguarding training. 9. Withsupport from the Health \& Safety Manager, to ensure the Nursery operates atall times within and follows agreed Health and Safety procedures, includingeffective risk assessment, in accordance with the Associations Health \& Safety Policy, and to act as the settings Responsible Person. 10. Toensure the nursery, all play areas, equipment and resources (includingoutdoors) are safe to use, cleaned and prepared daily before the childrenarrive, and maintained in accordance with manufacturers guidelines. Thisincludes completion of appropriate risk assessmentsQuality, performance and education 11. Toensure that the Nursery delivers the YMCA BC curriculum, providing a highquality balanced range of age-appropriate activities meeting the needs of eachchild as outlined in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework. 12. Toensure that each child in the nursery is provided with a Key Worker withparticular responsibility for their care, assessment/observation,information-gathering, and pastoral support. Ensuring each Key Worker is aresufficiently directed, trained, and resourced to effective carry out theirduties. 13. Toensure the Nursery is fully compliant with Ofsted requirements, ensuring thatthat the Self Evaluation Framework is regularly updated and that reportsresulting from inspection visits are acted upon. 14. Toestablish and maintain strong working relationships with the parents/carers,ensuring effective two-way communication through the use of social media,newsletters, open events, parents evenings, etc. 15. Topromote positive attitudes and behaviours from all children, encouraging aculture that praises the positive and challenges the negative. Ensure all staff work within the guidelinesof the Behavioural Policy. 16. Toencourage respect for the religious and cultural beliefs of others with aspecific focus on Christian festivals, beliefs, values and practises,supporting the YMCA BC Chaplain to engage in the services delivered.People management and development 17. Withthe support of the Associations Executive Head of HR and Ethos Services, torecruit, induct, manage and develop all staff as required. 18. Toline manage, observe, develop and, in their absence, operationally cover for,the Deputy Nursery Manager and other senior staff, enabling them to effectivelymanage the staff team. 19. Towork with the Chief Operations Officer for Early Years and Nursery AreaManager/Deputy Area Manager to ensure all staff are adequately trained anddeveloped, co-ordinating a programme of regular team meetings and trainingsessions, as well as access to external training and professional developmentopportunities. 20. Tolead staff meetings and deliver training where necessary, some of which willtake place outside of normal working hours.Finance and administration 21. Toensure relevant and accurate information is obtained, regularly updated andsecurely stored, about each and every child/service user. 22. Youwill receive training and support to manage income and expenditure withinagreed budgets and be responsible for nursery purchases within agreed budgets. 23. Toensure agreed systems for the notification and collection of fees fromindividuals and third parties are maintained at all times. This will alsoinvolve the active chasing of any non-payments/arrears. 24. Tomanage employment housekeeping, such as signing off time monthly time sheets,Annual Leave/ TOIL requests, and, with support from the HR Department, manageday to day employment issues.Business development 25. Todevelop and deliver strategies that will achieve agreed occupancy rates. 26. Toprovide prospective parents and carers with appropriate, prompt and informationthat enables them to make informed decisions about their use of the Nursery,and to enable them to conduct exploratory/initial visits.Policy and procedure 27. Towork within the terms of YMCA BCG guidelines, policies and procedures at alltimes. 28. Thepost holder must at all times carry out their responsibilities with due regardto the YMCAs Equal Opportunities \& Diversity PolicyGeneral 29. Promotethe work and mission of the YMCA movement in general, including supporting the articulationof the Christian ethos of the organisation to staff and customers alike. 30. Mustattend occasional meetings in outside normal working hours. 31. Mustbe willing to work flexibly including at different nursery settings whereneeded, in the event of sickness and/or holiday. 32. Respectprayer and devotional times that may take place from time to time in YMCAgatherings and related activities. Person Specification ======================== Junior Nursery Manager -------------------------- #### Knowledge \& Experience Essential Desirable Experience of managing/deputy managing a Day Nursery that, at the time, was assessed by Ofsted as being Good or Outstanding. Experience of line managing/supervising staff in a Day Nursery setting. Experience of working in day nursery settings, covering babies through to Pre-School children. Sound knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework, with the ability to enable others to deliver them in a Day Nursery setting. Excellent knowledge of child development issues and the ability to plan and deliver activities suitable for appropriate age groups. Experience of safeguarding procedures and contributing to multi-agency safeguarding (child protection) case reviews/management. Experienced in using day nursery software systems. #### Qualifications #### Childcare \& Education (Level 3) qualification #### Maths and English to GCSE level or equivalent #### Skills Possess strong inter-personal skills and the ability to engage/ build strong parent/carer relationships Good oral and written communication skills and the ability to write clear, concise and relevant reports. Ability to line manage, supervise and develop staff, identifying strengths and areas for further development, and putting in place measures to improve performance and effectiveness Ability to deliver significant performance improvements, possessing an eye for detail and the drive to bring about meaningful and lasting significant change. Ability to manage accurate financial records, budgets, and cash-handling processes Ability to deliver in-house training for staff Ability to maintain appropriate confidentiality and professional boundaries Possess good IT-user skills, including use of Word, Outlook, and Excel, social media and the ability to quickly and effectively master the use of nursery software systems. Motivation to work with children Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationship and personal boundaries with children Emotional resilience to work with children who need support with managing their behaviour. General Must dress in an appropriate manner for the role, wear the YMCA BCG nursery uniform provided and maintain a high standard of personal hygiene. Encourage respect for the religious and cultural beliefs of others. Experience of working in a culturally diverse area and a commitment to equal opportunities in the workplace which creates a welcoming environment for people of all faiths and of none. Ability to travel between sites when required. Current first aid qualification. The post will be offered subject to receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
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