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Wivenhoe Park Day Nursery are always on the look out for exceptional staff to join our already talented team. Set in the peaceful surroundings of Wivenhoe Park on our Colchester Campus, our Day Nursery offers high quality daycare to children from 3 months to 5 years. We serve the local community, University staff and students. Being a large nursery, with 6 rooms, we are always on the look out for staff to join our team. Whether it be a senior practitioner position or an apprentice position you’re interested in, we’d love to hear from you.

Nursery Manager (Early Years Practice)

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University of Essex Campus Services (UECS) is looking to recruit a Nursery Manager (Early Years Practice). Set in the peaceful surroundings of Wivenhoe Park on our Colchester Campus, our Day Nursery offers high quality day care to children from 3 months to 5 years. We serve the local community, University staff and students.

Job reference:	REQ05641
Salary:	£34,239 – £38,499 per annum
Location:	Colchester
Employment type:	Fixed-term, Full-time
Application closing date:	07/03/2022
Duties of the role:
Working alongside the Nursery Manager (Business Operations) in a dual leadership role, the post holder is responsible for providing professional leadership and management of the Day Nursery, ensuring that all children in our care receive outstanding care and education, improving outcomes for all children and providing inspirational leadership to team members. Responsibilities will include having a strategic overview of the quality of the early year’s provision, developing and sustaining an outstanding environment; keeping abreast with legislation, guidelines and policies; creating development plans for the setting; liaising with schools regarding transition; and leading, managing and motivating the Day Nursery team.
Skills and qualifications required:
The successful candidate will have significant management experience in a ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ Early Years setting and must be fully and relevantly qualified to at least level 4 in an Early Years qualification or equivalent. Candidates must also have excellent knowledge of the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework and experience of curriculum development. You will have a thorough understanding of child protection and safeguarding issues and will have experience of building strong parent partnerships and of leading a setting during at least one Ofsted inspection. Being committed organised and flexible with the ability to work with young children and their families in a sensitive and positive way and possess excellent management and leadership skills are key for this post.

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We would love to hear from you

We are looking to increase our bank of Early Years Assistants to provide versatile hours with on-demand contracts. If you are interested please email nursery@essex.ac.uk with a copy of your CV.