Assistant Manager

Clyde Valley Kindergarten is looking for an Assistant manager, to cover maternity leave until the end of December 2024. The candidate would have the BA Childhood Practice qualification or currently working towards this qualification.

They would work closley with the Kindergarten manager and assist her in her daily duties. The Kindergarten currently has a team of 15 employees.

Job Overview

The role of the Assistant/Deputy Nursery Manager is to support the Nursery Manager in providing professional leadership and management of the nursery and its staff and to support the Nursery Manager in the successful management of the day to day running of the nursery and deliver high quality standards of care and education for all children.

Aims

• Comply with all regulatory requirements

• Provide high standards of care and education

• Support all nursery staff in their roles

• Acquire and maintain positive working partnerships with staff, parents and carers

• Adhere to all company policies and procedures

• Ensure that all company policy and procedures are adhered to by all staff

• Promote a high standard of quality within the nursery.

• Ensure appropriate planning and assessment is in place and is accurately maintained by all staff

• Provide leadership and support to all staff to enable them to establish and maintain professional positive working relationships with both colleagues, parents and carers

• Deploy staff effectively to ensure the required standards are maintained

• Develop and maintain professional working relationships with relevant outside agencies

• Support the Nursery Manager in creating and maintaining a culture of self-evaluation and reflective practice throughout the nursery

• Adhere to all health and safety policies and procedures and support the Nursery Manager in ensuring all staff receive health and safety training

Support the Nursery Manager with recruiting, inducting, supporting, training and appraising all staff to deliver high quality childcare practice

• Support the Nursery Manager to identify, address and support individual training needs and self-development such as supervisions and appraisals

• Support the Nursery Manager with all administrative duties associated with the nursery, including maintaining children’s records, ordering equipment and keeping personnel files

• Undertake any other duties as reasonably requested by line manager

• Assume additional management responsibilities as and when required

The duties and responsibilities included in this job specification are not exhaustive or restrictive and can be reviewed at any time in the future, changes and other duties deemed relevant to this post may be added.