NURSERY MANAGER
Little Forest Folk are looking for an experienced Nursery Manager to join our exceptional team at sites across South West London.
Come and join our beautiful fully outdoor forest nurseries, where we are providing 2-5 year olds with an exemplary early years learning experience, to help them become the children most likely to succeed in today’s world.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with deputy manager, room leader or other leadership experience, who is passionate about early years education and the outdoors to join an “Outstanding” outdoor nursery organisation, recognised by the Queen for their innovation.
The Role
As Nursery Manager, you’ll lead an experienced and accomplished team using your existing skills, experience and passion for child-led learning. You will follow children’s interests and scaffold their learning in extraordinary and enabling environments for play-based learning.
You'll love working with children, and although you'll be supernumerary, you will motivate, lead, role model to and inspire your team of practitioners and help them to grow as educators by spending half of your week in the forest playing with the children.
When you join our organisation, we will provide you with amazing support from our Back Office team. We want our managers to be inspiring leaders rather than pencil pushing paperwork operators so our Back Office team offer strong support by managing your HR, recruitment, invoicing, parent enquiries and as much paperwork as we can take off your shoulders. Your job is to passionately lead and inspire your team to continue to offer children wondrous daily experiences and give them the childhood they deserve.
What we are looking for in our ideal Nursery Managers:
A minimum of Early Years Level 3 qualification or QTS
Experience as a manager or deputy of a team
A great passion for nature play and engaging children with the outdoors
Experience of working and implementing the EYFS statutory framework
Good knowledge and understanding of the safeguarding children obligations
Someone who is highly organised, reliable and a driven team-player
Strong relationship-building and communication skills to build a rapport with parents and practitioners alike
The ability to adapt quickly to changes, is flexible and uses their initiative on a daily basis.
We believe in looking after the people who look after our children, so our educators enjoy a range of perks such as;
28 days annual leave, inclusive of public holidays
1 additional day of annual leave after each full year of employment
A day off on your birthday – everyone should spend their birthday eating cake, not at work
The opportunity to work for a week in the beautiful Tuscany.
Competitive salaries
Funded Level 3 Forest School Qualification
Career progression opportunities
Professional development and in house training with leading names in the Early Childhood industry
Social events throughout the year
A fit, healthy, active job
Discounts at our favourite outdoor retailers
Bike to Work scheme (with Cyclescheme)
Techscheme
Cash back health plan (with Paycare)
Workplace Nursery scheme
Hours: 40 hours per week
Location: Please contact for more details
Salary: £34,000 - £37,000, dependent upon experience
To apply please send your CV and a covering letter explaining why you would like to join our exciting venture to careers@littleforestfolk.com.
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