Early Years Room Manager, Kindergarten

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We have a beautiful setting in Flax Bourton which opened in June 2022, easily accessible from so many places in Bristol and North Somerset. Red Bus has been operating as a company for over 11 years. We continually strive to do things better and we just want Red Bus to be the best place ever for children and the best place for staff to work.

If you are an experienced Early Years Practitioner with supervisory or management experience and you are looking for something new, we might be the next step for you. We know that times are hard and a lot of nurseries are struggling, and maybe not able to offer the support and career progression you are looking for at the moment. At Red Bus we are able to do that right now and we have an exciting Room Management position open.

Our Room Managers are only partly counted in numbers and are responsible for running and leading the room, in this case our beautiful baby suite for our 2-3's. You will have an Assistant Manager and Lead Practitioners supporting you. You will be a key part of the overall management team of the nursery.

This team gets great support, training and career development. As people moving into these positions can be from nurseries where they have been at for some time, we offer a smooth as possible transition to Red Bus with great onboarding and induction planning. We have lovely supporting staff in our teams and we can take the risk out of that move for you.

If you are experienced in this industry with a minimum of a Level 3 qualification in Early Years and 3 years post qualification experience, would really like to work for a very stable, highly staffed company who really take care of staff and pay well and offer great benefits and training and career opportunity, do consider applying to us. If you would prefer to have a chat or email first then please feel free to contact us directly through our careers website. This might be your first move into a more senior position or you might already have a lot of experience at a senior level, either way, consider speaking to us.

We have beautiful spacious rooms which direct access to amazing outside space, a haven for loveliness. Red Bus has an enviable reputation with the local schools at current settings for Red Bus new starters, we're very proud of that ! We have a very large area with amazing gardens, beautiful resources compliment the environment.

Contact us now for a very responsive reply. We are conducting interviews face to face and we would love to show you around ! We really value and take care of our staff team and they all work so well together, supporting each other and helping where they can. Our managers are open and listen and do what they can to make working for Red Bus the best experience.

What we offer you as a Room Manager :
• a child centric approach, we love the children to have as much fun and possible and to learn in the best environments
• a quality and professional environment. We are rated Outstanding with Ofsted and we help our Practitioners train and learn to this standard

- part out of numbers to allow you to effectively run your room
• lovely people who work for Red Bus who are very team focused and work together
• a management team who listen and support and who importantly value the work our staff do in these important roles
• amazing environment for you and the children ! Fully resourced, continually changing, very much fun!
• significant learning and development opportunities for you to train and achieve your goals;
• a growing company with many career opportunities
• full time work (40 hours per week)

- up to 25 days holiday + 3 days paid time off over Christmas plus 8 bank holidays = up to 36 days off per year!
• lovely uniform, multiple options for indoors and outdoors and plenty of it
• easy parking
• company & staff events
• pension
• discounted childcare

We also add on a further £1,000 per annum for anyone with an Early Years qualification higher than Level 3 or for Forest School or SEN Level 3.