Nursery Manager

at  Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Nursery: Bright Horizons Livingston Day Nursery and Preschool
Salary: From £40,000 (dependant on qualification/s and experience)
Location: Livingston
We are looking for a full time, qualified Nursery Manager to join our Bright Horizons Livingston Nursery.
This beautiful nursery supports your child from baby to preschool with lots of exciting things to do, including an enriching Ready for School programme and a Boogie Mites programme to bring the fun of music into the children’s learning.
Nature walks or visits to the local parks and library, giving the children an opportunity to become familiar with their surroundings and confident in new areas.
Located less than five minutes’ walk from Livingston South train station, also offering onsite parking.

• Lead our nursery teams to deliver outstanding care to all the children in your setting
• Through your inspirational leadership drive employee engagement, retention, and performance in the nursery
• Work in partnership with Recruitment and HR to ensure your nursery is fully recruited, encouraging a diverse workforce
• Role model and mentor your nursery team to ensure the highest quality early childhood practice and experience for all children, including children with special education needs and/or disabilities
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead at the nursery, holding overall responsibility for the day to day running of the nursery and management of safeguarding and child protection policies
• Work in partnership with HR to identify succession plans for the nursery team and nurture, create and continuously develop a pipeline of high performing colleagues, building the strongest talent pool in the sector
• Work with the Regional Director, Finance and Marketing teams to identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE growth within the nursery
• Commercial delivery of the nursery performance, optimising revenue generation and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements, to deliver and exceed the annual budgeted EBITDA
• Engage with the Local Authority to understand the local offer, to support practice in all areas of the nursery