Deputy Nursery Manager

Nursery: Wilmere Lane Nursery School, Widnes, Cheshire, WA8 5UR
Hours: Full Time Monday to Friday
Salary: From £14.25=£14.65 per hour (depending on experience and qualifications) plus £1,000 Welcome Bonus
Benefits: Performance related bonus, 50% childcare discount, wellness day and much much more.

Every day at Wilmere Lane, we inspire our children to be inquisitive, imaginative and confident learners through our carefully designed learning environments. For over 20 years, we’ve welcomed and nurtured children who go on to spend many happy years imagining, discovering, and exploring with us.

Our cosy, home-from-home atmosphere creates a sense of comfort, togetherness, and well-being—helping children to feel secure, content and ready to thrive.

Our passionate, experienced team brings a wealth of early years knowledge. We understand that every child is unique, with their own story to tell, so we tailor our approach to support each child in a way—and at a pace—that’s just right for them.

Our children enjoy dedicated time in our large garden, where a range of outdoor experiences help them connect with nature and grow in confidence. Indoors, our calming and nurturing spaces are designed to support babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers alike.

Mealtimes are a warm and social part of the day, with our children helping to serve healthy, home-cooked meals in a relaxed setting that encourages independence and community.

Who & What is Storal?

It’s our collective group of Nurseries that we are happily a part of here at Wilmere Lane. 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 the role:

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.

About you

• A true love for child development and care 

• Able and willing to work in a team 

• Ability to communicate effectively with management, your peers and parents 

• High levels of care and empathy that every opportunity can be a learning opportunity 

• Knowledge of the EYFS framework 

Must haves:

• 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

Why work for us:

Benefits at a glance

For you - We get the basics right Holidays, sick pay & personal Wellness Day

Enhanced DBS check and subscription to the DBS Update Service

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

Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Discounted gym memberships, spa days, fertility support & so much 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 partner with world-leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

We care about our people.  

Curious to know more?

We’d love to tell you more about what makes Wilmere Lane so special.

  Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.   

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