Nursery Manager

Nursery:
Cherry Tree, 73 Orford Ln, Warrington WA2 7BS

Hours:

Full Time, Monday to Friday 40 hours

Salary:
Up to £38,200 (dependent on experience and qualifications)

£1,000 WELCOME BONUS

Remarkable Futures Start Here

Cherry Tree's

Purpose:

To give children healthy foundations in fantastic settings, helping them build the confidence and resilience that will set them up for success later in life.

Storal’s

Purpose:

To give children healthy foundations in fantastic settings, helping them build the confidence and resilience that will set them up for success later in life.

The Team:
You’ll have a supportive team to help you succeed, including an Operations Manager, Deputy Manager, Office Manager, Early Years Educators and an education coach to help with the delivery of the Storal curriculum.

How you’ll spend your time here:
Day to day as a Nursery Manager you will be an intrinsic part of the Nurseries success ensuring the setting has the right team, culture, policies and resources to deliver the highest possible standards of childcare and early years education.

You’ll offer solutions where you identify areas for improvements whether that relates to learning and teaching techniques or, creating more stimulating experiences and environments for the children and their educators. You will embrace inclusivity to ensure the individual needs of all those within your care are achieved.

• Full and relevant Early Years Education qualification Level 3 or above or equivalent
• GCSE maths or equivalent
• Experience in a managerial role including nursery administration or similar
• Strong knowledge and understanding of the EYFS framework
• Reflecting the Storal values around responsibility, openness and working together and experienced in providing staff training and support
• Demonstrable leadership qualities (ideally within Early Years)
• Excellent communication skills with both children and adults

Our nurseries are warm and nurturing environments that not only support children to be ready for school, but also equip them with all the life skills they need to flourish and succeed.

• Basics: enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and access to Pay Captain
• Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity leave
• Health & wellness support: partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets
• Development: micro‑learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund
• Community: termly inset days, team member app and Storal Awards

Storal sets the highest standards when it comes to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that encourages feedback, discussion and resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete thorough compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.