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Nursery Manager
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★ Your Dream Career in 2025 Starts Here: Join N Family Club and enjoy the best salaries, benefits, and career growth opportunities in the industry! ★
If you hold a relevant Early Years qualification (Level 3 or above), don’t miss the chance to join a forward-thinking, dynamic nursery group that’s changing the face of early years education.
Discover the N Advantage — Our competitive salary and benefits package for 2025:
★ Competitive Salary: Earn between £37,000 - £60,008, reflecting your experience and dedication
★ A performance related bonus of up to 25% of base salary, plus £1,000 for Ofsted ‘Outstanding’
★Generous Holiday up to 35 days of holiday (including 3 days between Christmas/ New Year and a ‘Me’ day off of your choice!) plus opportunity to purchase up to 5 days leave per year
★ Daily Perks: Complimentary lunch and drinks every day
★ The N Partnership Access a personal development fund of £100 per year
★Funding and paid time off for Level 3/EYTT/ EY Degrees/Forest School/Leadership and other training and professional development through our N Academy
★ N Coaching & Mentoring programmes
★ Clifton Strength Assessments
★Leadership events
★ Annual leadership Mountains ski trip
★ Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, and Shared Parental leave pay after 2 years of continuous service, plus neonatal leave, fostering leave and carer’s leave
★ Childcare discount of 40%
★ Emergency childcare: 6 back-up childcare days in any of our nurseries
But that’s not all…
★ 5-Year Bonus: Celebrate your 5th year n.iversary with a round-the-world trip and 2 extra weeks of holiday
★ 10-Year Bonus: After 10 years, enjoy an OUT OF THIS WORLD experience and another 2 weeks of holiday
★ Referral Bonuses: Earn up to £1,000 for every friend you refer who joins N Family Club
★ Exclusive Discounts: Get access to discounts on groceries, shopping, entertainment, and more with the Each Person’s app
★ Travel Support: Season pass loans and cycle-to-work schemes to make commuting easy
Social Fun: Join us for our annual Winter Party, Summer BBQ, and regular team socials
★ Health & Wellbeing: Discounts on gym memberships and digital fitness classes through My Gym Discounts
Why N Family Club?
We’re more than just a nursery group; we’re the UK’s most innovative early years education provider.
Our vision? To be the highest quality, and most loved, early years education group in the UK.
Our purpose? To inspire and develop the next generation to reach their full potential in an ever-changing world.
At N Family Club, we dreamed of creating a place where early years education would be reimagined. A place that fosters creativity, embraces a curriculum-led approach, and prepares children for the modern world. We're proud to be making that dream a reality, and now, we’re inviting you to be a part of it!
What it means to be a Nursery Manager at N Family Club…
As a Nursery Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of nursery operations, ensuring compliance with regulations while maintaining exceptional standards in people management, commercial strategy, and educational excellence. Your role will blend expertise in children's education, business acumen, customer service, and people development to create an environment where children thrive in safety, learning, and fun.
You will lead with vision, guiding your team to deliver the highest level of care and education, while also driving operational efficiency and financial performance. Your ability to balance the educational and commercial elements of the nursery will be crucial in fostering a supportive, engaging, and compliant setting for both children and staff
Welcome to the enchanting world of N Godalming – where every day is a masterpiece of joy and discovery in the heart of Surrey! Join our fantastic team at our gorgeous 119-place purpose-built nursery, a haven for little dreamers in the charming town of Godalming.
Commute with ease – just a 10-minute walk from the station, or hop on the 70, 71, or 72 bus for a direct route. And for those who embrace the drive, on-site parking awaits, making your journey as delightful as the experiences that await.
Ready to make 2025 your year?
Apply now and be part of something extraordinary. Your dream career starts here!
For more information about N Family Club, our team culture, and our world-class benefits, visit our Careers website or check out our Glassdoor page.
Key Responsibilities
- Create, and ensure there is, a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone plays as a team and can achieve their full potential, promoting the N Family Club culture and values
- To be the Designated Safeguarding Lead at the nursery and hold overall responsibility for the day to day management of safeguarding and child protection policies.
- Own the operational management of your nursery ensuring all N policies and procedures are followed, alongside compliance with EYFS statutory requirements, H&S legislation and Ofsted requirements.
- Be responsible for leading the team to deliver the highest quality education in line with the N Pedagogy and Curriculum, driving improvement through the nursery self evaluation plan. This will include completing actions set by the Education Advisor or identified through N100 audits and mock inspections.
- Take full accountability for recruitment, retention, staffing, succession planning and be a champion for N Academy signing posting teams to relevant learning. Actively engage with the local community and local team to support both attracting and retaining team members.
- Be a role model for exceptionally high standards, never cutting corners, thriving on feedback and leading on improvement plans to move forwards.
- Build and maintain brilliant relationships with parents, taking the time to learn customers names and build genuine relationships with them, making spaces feel warm and uplifting, constantly finding ways to go beyond and championing relevant initiatives e.g. pedagogical partner handovers
- Work with sales and marketing to drive occupancy levels, managing capacity to offer education to as many families that require this in the local area maximising all the space in the nursery.
- Risk assess the nursery through the day, every day, and take appropriate action; maintaining and critically assessing all policies, procedures and practice to continuously drive improvements, creating an open culture of behavioural safety.
- Commercial delivery of nursery performance, optimising revenue generation and cost efficiency in line with N Family targets to deliver and exceed nursery budgeted EBITDA
- Engage in the local community to build and establish local partnerships including strong connections with the local authority to ensure we meet all local requirements.
- Encourage the local team to engage in the local community to build and establish local partnerships including strong connections with the local authority to ensure we meet all local requirements.
- Role model N values whilst coaching, guiding, proactively and openly resolving problems, developing and succession planning your team
- Respect and value all team members, children and parents, encouraging a positive and diverse working environment
- Responsible for always adhering to the company's H&S policy: “Statement of Intent"
- Work a flexible work pattern within the nursery opening hours (7am-7pm), with the flexibility to attend out of hours meetings and events as required
About N Family Club
We began with a dream. To be the highest quality, and most loved, early years education group in the UK. We imagined a future of early years education that was different. Where a focused, curriculum-led approach would inspire big dreamers and big career movers. Where children are prepared for this ever-changing, modern world and where people come to life when they come to work!
Our Commitment To Safeguarding
At N, we have a commitment to safeguarding our children and thoughtfully prioritise the safety and well-being of everyone in our nurseries. As part of our commitment to ensuring a secure environment, we diligently adhere to the guidance provided by regulatory bodies. Our dedication to safer recruitment practices is underscored by our compliance with key legislation designed to protect vulnerable individuals.
By embracing these laws and legislation (DBS Code of Practice; DBS Referral Guidance; Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and Regulated Activity), we uphold the highest standards of safety and accountability, fostering a nurturing environment where everyone can thrive.
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In line with Safer Recruitment and Keeping Everyone Safe, N Family Club will carry out online searches for all shortlisted candidates including a Google and Social Media search. Any information found from the online searches, may be discussed at the interview stage.
Our Hiring Process
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