Deputy Nursery Manager

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Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? Are you passionate about supporting children and families? If so, look no further! We are currently offering a job share opportunity for two part time Deputy Nursery Manager's to join our dynamic team at our Early Years Service in Gunthorpe.

Here at Barnardo's we believe that every child deserves the best start to life. This is an exciting opportunity to support the ongoing development of this setting and achieve outstanding quality provision for the local schools and wider community.

We also provide a wrap around service that provides care for school age children who will attend our breakfast, after school club and we also run a holiday club. The successful candidate will need to have previous experience with all age groups and needs to be confident in dealing with challenging situations.

Working pattern

Monday to Friday

Positions - 2

Location of the post

Play House Preschool Out of School/Holiday Club, Gunthorpe Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE4 7TS

Starting Salary - we will offer this role from step 2, which will be £24,440, per annum.

Essential requirements

• Minimum NVQ level 3 or equivalent qualification in relevant field
• Experience in working with Children in a childcare setting of ages 2-12 and their families.
• Experience working in a supervisory role.
• Ability to demonstrate a strong understanding of child protection, safeguarding and working with vulnerable children.

Some of the Key Responsibilities include:

• Create and Develop activities within the provision, plan programmes of activities for children and young people.
• Providing a 'duty' management role to the service, offering information, advice and support with operational day-to-day running of the service.
• Ensuring consistent use of policies, procedures and processes.
• Attending appropriately to the physical and emotional needs of children and young people, including health and safety aspects of equipment, environment and activities in consultation with Children's Services Manager.
• To establish fair, respectful, trusting, supportive and constructive relationships with parents and children, communicating sensitively and effectively
• Screening and leading the referrals process.
• Lead in establishing and maintaining relationships with other agencies within Peterborough/Cambridgeshire to support children, young people and families.
• To contribute to the financial stability and sustainability of the Preschool, Out of School and holiday club by. promoting and marketing the setting, arranging show rounds and visits and working together with parents to ensure continuity of service.

More about the Service

Barnardo's Out of School Holiday Club opened in September 2017 and the pre-school was set up shortly after. The setting has built a reputation for working closely with the community, providing quality support for children ages 2 - 12 years and is currently assessed as "Good" by Ofsted in July 2021. We are proud to say that all profit we make from our settings go back into Children's Services provision, providing much needed support to vulnerable children and families in the area.

If you would like some more information about this role, please contact Stacey Williams - Stacey.Williams@barnardos.org.uk or visit our Facebook page here

When completing your application please refer to the skills, knowledge and experience you have in relation to the Additional Information sheet, Person Specification & Job Description.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, this role we will appoint at the minimum pay band - this ensures that pay progression steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.