• To assist in ensuring that all children attending the nursery are kept safe and receive rich and stimulating play experiences appropriate to their age and stage of development
• In the absence of the manager to undertake the overall day-today management of the nursery, including after school club, breakfast club, holiday club, drop in services and any other supplementary services.
• To assist the manager in ensuring that all legislation in relation to registration with regulatory bodies, special needs, child protection and Health and Safety is complied with and that company policies and procedures are adhered.
• To work as an effective deputy manager to deliver a high quality, education and care centred service that meet the needs of children and their families
• Support the manager to ensure that practice and provision in the nursery meets the outstanding requirements of OFSTED and the Early Years Foundation Stage.
• Develop strong parent partnerships to ensure high quality of care and children and parent satisfaction.
• To support team across all our settings, activities, services, including after-school club, breakfast club, drop in centres, holiday club, fundraising events, parents evening and other activities.
• To actively promote and implement the nurserys vision, with a clear focus on childrens achievement.
• To redevelop regular activity plans to encourage childrens learning through play, by providing a stimulating and enabling environment, which enables all children to develop to their full potential.
• To provide a welcoming and aesthetically pleasing environment which fully reflects, values and respects the ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds of the children and families attending the setting or living within the local community.
• To take responsibility for the planning and preparation of all the rooms and the outside areas, using observation of children and evaluation of the provision to ensure all play areas fully enhance childrens learning and interests and are effectively risk assessed.
• To have key worker for a group of children, as agreed by the Nursery Manager, ensuring that each child has access to a broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum.
• To implement a high quality planned curriculum, in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage, to encourage, learning and understanding through play activities and to ensure a well-planned, safe and learning environment.
• To carry out high quality written and photographic observations, planning and assessments using the EYFS development matters bandings, identifying next steps for childrens learning.
• Ensure childrens learning journals are kept up to date and regular reports are written to ensure effective communication with colleagues and parents.
• To work in partnership with internal and external professionals and agencies to ensure key information is shared to support the needs of the children and families within the setting.
• To work in partnership with local schools and settings to share good quality information and ensure children experience smooth transitions.
• To undertake risk assessments on a daily basis and ensure relevant action is taken to minimise, reduce or remove risks to children.
• To clear and tidy the inside and outside play areas at the end of activities or the end of the day.
• To maintain high professional standards to ensure childrens individual needs, dietary needs, and personal care is met at all times and information is shared fully.
• To share responsibility for preparing and serving snacks and light meals/breakfasts for children, adhering to hygiene regulations.
• To ensure telephone enquiries, correspondence and visitors are dealt with appropriately.

Management

• Ensure that all children attending the nursery receive rich and stimulating experiences appropriate to their age and stage of development.
• To support the staff to understand and implement the Early Years Learning Goals.
• Ensure full and concise record is kept and all achievements are recorded for all the children and all necessary targets are pin pointed, demonstrating how to profile children to encourage further development records.
• Ensure staff coached to document observations on each childs progress, identify achievements, opportunities for progression and development.
• Support the managers across both nurseries to manage staff rota and have set lunch breaks for fairness and to ensure the nursery is not understaffed at any time.
• Ensure all the staff have set time allocated to update learning journals on a weekly bases.
• Support the manager to maintain a database of Bank staff to support the team during staff shortages.
• To actively promote all childrens services and oversee marketing and outreach in the local community.

Human Resource

• Support the nursery manager with staff issues such as performance, grievances, investigations, disciplinary matters, absence management, flexible working, sick leave, return to work interviews and informal conversations.
• Maintain accurate staff personnel files in the Head office and in the nursery, ensuring all suitability checks and evidence of paperwork are in place.

Finance

• Collect parents fees and monitor debts in accordance with our terms and condition and financial procedure.
• Support the manager by ensuring all relevant data such as: administrative, finance and information relevant to parents are collated on a daily bases and inputted onto the Abacus Nursery Management system.
• Support the manager to monitor all expenditure.
• Identify efficiencies to ensure expenses are kept to a minimal.
• Operate a full cost recovery structure for all activities and services.

Policies and Procedures

• Support the manager to implement all nursery policies
• Supervise the administration of all medication within the nursery ensuring the medicine policy is followed at all times.
• Ensure all medical forms are fully completed and signed by parents.
• Ensure QCCAs procedures manuals are followed, specifically Childcare, Employee Handbook, HR Guide, Health and Safety, Training and Finance.

Health & Safety

• Lead the responsibility for Health, Safety and Cleanliness throughout nursery
• To undertake regular risk assessments,
• To monitor all child protection issues and keep a log of any accident or incident.
• To arrange for effective and regular waste removal.
• To ensure that all front-line staff maintain the personal hygiene of children
• Operate the highest standards of hygiene and cleanliness in the bedding, nappy changing and food services areas
• To ensure that the preparation and cleanliness of nursery playrooms, bedding, nappy-changing room, food-serving areas and equipment is carried out in accordance with set policies and procedures
• To maintain proper emergency and security procedures including the registration and collection of children.
• Adhere and promote the emergency and security procedures, e.g. fire procedures, routines for dropping of and collecting children and marking the register.
• To be responsible for recording accidents in the accident book.

Security & Equipment

• Support the manager to maintain an inventory of all resources available
• Ensure care, maintenance and security of all equipment and toys

General

• Action and monitor all child protection issues, parent issues, complaints and accidents to ensure that remedial action is taken immediately, liaising with the Nursery Managers.
• Ensure that following any OFSTED visits, any recommendations made by the inspectors are set as target for the nursery to achieve.
• Ensure nursery menus are followed and the fresh food is readily available, ensure the highest standards of food hygiene at all times.
• Ensure snack and lunch is not ordered in excess and that the costs is recovered from parents.
• Review and monitor occupancy levels to ensure they are maintained to maximum capacity.
• To ensure that the nursery is fully properly equipped and ensure that orders are generated on time
• Be fully conversant with all operational systems
• To offer an equal opportunities service with regard to race, gender, culture, faith and/or disability
• To undertake any additional tasks related to the effective delivery of the Childrens Services from the senior managers.

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