Deputy Nursery Manager

Nursery: Children 1st @ Syston, 1324 Melton Road, Syston, Leicester LE7 2EQ

Hours: Full Time, Monday to Friday
Salary: From £14.40 per hour (depending on experience and qualifications)
Benefits: Performance related bonus, 50% childcare discount, wellness day and much much more.

*£1000 WELCOME BONUS*

Remarkable futures start here

At Syston we feel truly privileged to be part of our child’s early years—providing a nurturing environment where they can learn, grow, and thrive.

Our carefully designed spaces—from the calming Tree Room to our exciting Cottage and Construction areas—spark creativity, imagination, and a love of learning.

With dedicated gardens for each age group, our children spend their days immersed in nature, exploring, discovering, and engaging in hands-on learning through play.

Our warm and welcoming atmosphere, combined with a wide range of thoughtfully selected resources, creates a home-from-home where every child feels safe, happy, and valued.

Who & What is Storal?

It’s our collective group of Nurseries that we are happily apart of here at Syston. Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and are passionate about Early Years. Bringing your whole self is a must if that’s pink hair, being Neurospicy or having a unique pastime, we encourage it all.  Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better. Check out our website to learn about our leaders and the expertise they bring to our Storal community. 

About you
You are a Level 3 or above qualified, Senior Early Years Educator / Senior Practitioner / Senior Nursery Nurse / Room leader who is ready for their next step or, you may even be an experienced Deputy manager or similar who thrives on leading by example, and inspiring others to be the best that they can be . Either way, we'd love to hear from you.

You love supporting and encouraging the natural curiosity and excitement of young children, whilst also motivating your team to do the same.

You have a natural, nurturing openness, along with a warm and positive outlook, and you care about learning and education standards for young children in the UK.

What you'll be doing
Day to day as a Deputy Nursery Manager you will be an intrinsic part of the nursery management team ensuring the setting has the right staff, culture, policies and resources to deliver the highest possible standards of childcare and early years education.

You will 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.

You will encourage a love of learning through high quality teaching under the EYFS framework, ensuring that all children are kept safe and have rich stimulating experiences. You'll do this by leading, motivating and inspiring the educators, managing ratios through the staff rotas, attracting new hires and providing learning and developing opportunities to the team. You will also deputise for the Nursery Manager during their absence.

What you'll need

• A full and relevant Early Years Education qualification Level 3 or above or equivalent

• Experience in a managerial role including nursery administration or similar

• A strong knowledge and understanding 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

Benefits at a glance

For you -We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and accessing your pay before payday with PayCaptain

Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)

Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets and more

Development - Investing in your future Micro-learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund

Our community - Growing together Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.

We pay for your DBS upfront along with reimbursing your annual update service charge

We partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

And much much more

Storal is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All employees will be subject to background checks, enhanced DBS check and reference checks.

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