Deputy Nursery Manager (Maternity cover)
- Nescot (North East Surrey College of Technology)
- Epsom KT17 3DS, UK
- Jan 07, 2025
Job Description
Nescot is recognised as the ‘Employer of the year’ at the Surrey Business Awards 2024 and offers a wide range of benefits and wellbeing activities to staff.
We are seeking a passionate Full time Deputy Nursery Manager to join our GOOD Ofsted rated growing 90-place nursery based in Epsom, Surrey. This role is maternity cover due to start April 2025 and is fixed term until December 2025 or until the postholder returns.
Benefits:
- Free parking on-site, 5-minute walk from Ewell East Station and great transport Links
- Free hot lunchtime meals
- Opportunity to do a Leadership and Management qualification on site.
- Discounted Starbucks, modern hair and beauty salon, on-site gym, sports hall, fitness class, osteopathy and day nursery
- Free online qualifications
- Free uniform provided
- 2 early closures in Summer and a Christmas 1pm finish
- Home form Home environment, private day nursery
- Wellbeing support
- NEST Pension
Our 90 place recently extended Nursery features fantastic room sizes based on one floor along with two garden spaces for the children to access in all weathers. There is also a sensory room and soft play room.
What we’re looking for:
- An inspiring practitioner
- A genuine passion and enjoyment for working with children
- Experience of management within a nursery setting
- String People skills and strong knowledge of safeguarding.
Main Duties:
- Provide our children with the best possible care and education by having shared vision with the head of nursery.
- Lead and role model best practice
- Proactive in marketing the nursery
- Regular presence in the nursery rooms, engaging with staff and parents/carers
We have a well-established team, with many staff remaining at our nursery for over 10 years.
At Nescot, we’re proud of our inclusive culture and we welcome all applications. This role is employed through Nescot Enterprises Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nescot which operates different terms and conditions.
Closing date is the 2nd February 2025
Interviews will be as and when candidate apply
We reserve the right to close this role sooner*
Salary
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North East Surrey College of Technology has become one of Further Education's success stories as we progress towards being recognised as outstanding. In January 2016 Ofsted inspected the college and said that teaching was ‘consistently good’, that students ‘enjoy being at the college’ and praised the progress made at the college since the last inspection in October 2010.
At Nescot we want to help you succeed in your ambitions. Our students value our welcoming, friendly and caring atmosphere and our lively learning community will help you to make the most of your time with us.
Our safe campus is set in the beautiful Surrey countryside and we are only 30 minutes away from central London with direct trains from Victoria and Waterloo. The large, free car park makes access easy for learners from throughout the region.
Attracting learners from the local community, nationally and from overseas, our range of courses include Further Education, Higher Education, professional, leisure, short, full and part-time courses.
We pride ourselves in being able to offer courses which meet the educational needs of our students, and in giving you the freedom to develop as an individual. The College offers progression routes at all levels and to our own Higher Education courses validated by the Universities of Greenwich, Kingston and West London and Pearson is one of our awarding bodies.
Equality and Diversity
Nescot continually strives to progress with our equality and diversity objectives and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening including checks with past employers, online checks, and enhanced DBS clearance.
Please note: It is an offence to apply for roles at the college if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity related to children.
As users of the Disability Confident Scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.