Room Leader
| Posting date: | 19 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 June 2025 |
| Location: | ME4 6BA |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | YMCW Nursery Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | RL Chatham |
Summary
Nursery Room Leader – Job Description
Main Purpose of Role:
To be a proactive room leader managing and mentoring the staff in your room whilst providing a safe, stimulating and inclusive environment in which children are supported and encouraged to achieve their full potential.
To offer full and practical support in the day to day running of the nursery.
Main duties of role:
Below is a list of tasks and responsibilities that you are obliged to fulfil in your role as a Nursery Room Leader
To manage and mentor the staff in your allocated room, ensuring that staff are responsive to the children in their care.
To ensure daily risk assessments are completed as to the room and surrounding areas including outside.
To develop good partnerships with families to ensure that they that they are happy with the service and happy with their Child’s development.
Proactively develop professional relationships within the local community.
Have regular meetings with your room staff to ensure the smooth running of the service and to develop new ideas for the nursery.
To moderate staff in your teams work ensuring a consistently high standard is achieved.
Ensure that Ofsted inspections are prepared for and your team are aware of what is required.
To ensure that you work with the manager to present an excellent environment for prospective or new parents.
To understand and respect the need for consistency of care for the children – report for duty on time, maintain regular attendance, give appropriate notice of holiday requests and report non- attendance through sickness promptly and appropriately.
To assist in providing a safe, supportive and caring environment for young children; to ensure that all aspects of each individual child’s development are progressed.
To have a thorough knowledge of child protection and safeguarding children
To ensure that clean and hygienic standards are maintained at all times. This includes daily cleaning rotas, nappy changing and other nursery/housekeeping duties.
To maintain and follow all Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times.
To develop a thorough knowledge of all of the company’s operational policies and procedures; ensuring that they are followed and respected at all times.
To be fully up to date with the requirements of the “Early Years Foundation Stage” and ensure that your practice meets and aims to exceed the requirements.
To be proactive in the process of activity planning, child observation and development records on a regular basis and as requested by your supervisor and Nursery Manager.
To follow all routines, duties, timetables, rotas, record keeping activities and any other reasonable duty as requested by your supervisor or Nursery Manager.
To ensure that communication with children, parents and the staff team is polite and courteous at all times.
To share relevant information and ensure that information passed between parents and staff is communicated to your supervisor/Nursery Manager as appropriate.
To be an effective key person to those children assigned to you and to take on other assigned responsibilities, as requested and advised by your supervisor in line with knowledge and experience.
To maintain confidentiality about all issues related to children and their families; your own and other staff members issues and any other management or operational issues.
Involvement and enrolment in company training courses to be undertaken and completed which may, at various times, be outside normal working hours.
To be involved in developing and delivering a stimulating and creative atmosphere within the group.
To provide staff cover within the nursery group periodically, as requested by the Management team.
To attend all mandatory training sessions and workshops (as advised by your manager).
To attend staff meetings, professional development training and any other events as requested by your Nursery Manager.
To support and mentor colleagues who are studying for NVQ childcare qualifications.
To act as a role model for junior members of staff.
To carry out any other reasonable additional duties as requested by your supervisor and/or Nursery Manager from time to time.
To take responsibility for continued professional development by attending courses (in-house and external), receiving constructive feedback and reading relevant material.
Qualifications
NVQ qualification in Early Childhood Education or equivalent
Level three childcare qualification or above
Significant experience and knowledge of working with babies in a nursery setting
Strong communication skills to effectively engage with children and parents
Leadership and management abilities to oversee nursery staff and activities
Proficiency in English to facilitate clear communication
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £25,500.00-£28,805.00 per year
Benefits:
Childcare
Company pension
On-site parking
Sick pay
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Experience:
Nursery: 3 years (preferred)
Childcare: 3 years (preferred)
Main Purpose of Role:
To be a proactive room leader managing and mentoring the staff in your room whilst providing a safe, stimulating and inclusive environment in which children are supported and encouraged to achieve their full potential.
To offer full and practical support in the day to day running of the nursery.
Main duties of role:
Below is a list of tasks and responsibilities that you are obliged to fulfil in your role as a Nursery Room Leader
To manage and mentor the staff in your allocated room, ensuring that staff are responsive to the children in their care.
To ensure daily risk assessments are completed as to the room and surrounding areas including outside.
To develop good partnerships with families to ensure that they that they are happy with the service and happy with their Child’s development.
Proactively develop professional relationships within the local community.
Have regular meetings with your room staff to ensure the smooth running of the service and to develop new ideas for the nursery.
To moderate staff in your teams work ensuring a consistently high standard is achieved.
Ensure that Ofsted inspections are prepared for and your team are aware of what is required.
To ensure that you work with the manager to present an excellent environment for prospective or new parents.
To understand and respect the need for consistency of care for the children – report for duty on time, maintain regular attendance, give appropriate notice of holiday requests and report non- attendance through sickness promptly and appropriately.
To assist in providing a safe, supportive and caring environment for young children; to ensure that all aspects of each individual child’s development are progressed.
To have a thorough knowledge of child protection and safeguarding children
To ensure that clean and hygienic standards are maintained at all times. This includes daily cleaning rotas, nappy changing and other nursery/housekeeping duties.
To maintain and follow all Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times.
To develop a thorough knowledge of all of the company’s operational policies and procedures; ensuring that they are followed and respected at all times.
To be fully up to date with the requirements of the “Early Years Foundation Stage” and ensure that your practice meets and aims to exceed the requirements.
To be proactive in the process of activity planning, child observation and development records on a regular basis and as requested by your supervisor and Nursery Manager.
To follow all routines, duties, timetables, rotas, record keeping activities and any other reasonable duty as requested by your supervisor or Nursery Manager.
To ensure that communication with children, parents and the staff team is polite and courteous at all times.
To share relevant information and ensure that information passed between parents and staff is communicated to your supervisor/Nursery Manager as appropriate.
To be an effective key person to those children assigned to you and to take on other assigned responsibilities, as requested and advised by your supervisor in line with knowledge and experience.
To maintain confidentiality about all issues related to children and their families; your own and other staff members issues and any other management or operational issues.
Involvement and enrolment in company training courses to be undertaken and completed which may, at various times, be outside normal working hours.
To be involved in developing and delivering a stimulating and creative atmosphere within the group.
To provide staff cover within the nursery group periodically, as requested by the Management team.
To attend all mandatory training sessions and workshops (as advised by your manager).
To attend staff meetings, professional development training and any other events as requested by your Nursery Manager.
To support and mentor colleagues who are studying for NVQ childcare qualifications.
To act as a role model for junior members of staff.
To carry out any other reasonable additional duties as requested by your supervisor and/or Nursery Manager from time to time.
To take responsibility for continued professional development by attending courses (in-house and external), receiving constructive feedback and reading relevant material.
Qualifications
NVQ qualification in Early Childhood Education or equivalent
Level three childcare qualification or above
Significant experience and knowledge of working with babies in a nursery setting
Strong communication skills to effectively engage with children and parents
Leadership and management abilities to oversee nursery staff and activities
Proficiency in English to facilitate clear communication
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £25,500.00-£28,805.00 per year
Benefits:
Childcare
Company pension
On-site parking
Sick pay
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Experience:
Nursery: 3 years (preferred)
Childcare: 3 years (preferred)