Early Years Quality Manager

Kids Planet Day Nurseries provide the highest standard of nursery care and education across our settings within a unique environment in which children are actively encouraged to explore, learn and interact with others.

With the ongoing growth of Kids Planet, we are delighted to announce we are looking to grow our Early Years Quality Team.

We are looking for a highly dedicatedEarly Years Quality Managerin the South region based in and aroundOxford, Cheltenham, Swindon and surrounding areas, with experience of managing and co-ordinating Early Years settings, with a proven record of enhancing quality. Our Early Years Quality Managers, lead and support continuous quality improvement across the Kids Planet group through monitoring and training, and are an integral part of our Senior Management team.

Quality is a broad term and so this role is varied, fast paced and covers a wide variety of aspects.

Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

· Assessment of quality across all settings within the group

· Creating and monitoring action plans that will promote continuous improvement, offering creative suggestions and solutions where required to support settings to achieve their full potential offering outstanding childcare

· Identifying and promoting good practice models

· Identifying training needs of the teams and supporting our internal training team to deliver in-house training

· To work collaboratively with the senior management team to enhance the overall curriculum of settings and to be actively involved in supporting new initiatives, as and when necessary

· To support and lead change within acquisition settings, following the Kids Planet Processes

Experience and knowledge required includes:

· Proven practical experience as a Nursery Manager

· Proven experience of co-ordinating and managing an Early Years setting

· Proven experience of driving and supporting a setting to achieve outstanding outcomes

· Extensive knowledge of legislation relating to Early Years

· Knowledge of legislation relating to children with Additional Learning Needs.

· Understanding of partnership working at operational and strategic levels

The ideal applicant will:

· Hold at least a Level 3 qualification in Early Years Education that is recognised in the UK.

· Have a minimum of 3 years’ experience working at a senior level.

· Have experience of producing accurate and appropriately evidenced reporting against the EYFS and Ofsted Early Years Inspection Framework.

· Possess extensive knowledge of Safeguarding.

· Be able to demonstrate experience of multi-agency working and leading training.

· Full, clean driving licence and use of a vehicle.

· Multi-site management is desirable.

The role is field based but will require significant amounts of travel and occasional overnight stays away from home. The role holder is required to work flexibly to meet the needs of the business; this will include some evening or weekend work to support improvement, for example, to deliver evening training sessions.

This role offers the successful candidate a competitive salary and pension whilst working within a highly professional team.

We are unable to offer any kind of visa sponsorship for this role.

Kids Planet is committed to equal opportunities for all. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our staff and children. Applications are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note, if you are successful in this role, background checks including online searches may be completed. This is keeping in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education policies.