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  Up to £29,000/Annually Depending on experience & qualifications
  
  This well-established setting in Radlett is looking to recruit.
  
  They are currently looking for a Room Manager
  
  Responsibilities Include:
  
  Personal and Leadership Responsibilities
  
  • Overall to manage the room by example to others and thereby promote respect for the role. Your staff will learn and perform by how you perform your own role on a day to day basis.
  
  • Ensure you are familiar with all key policies and procedures and that your staff are kept up to date.
  
  • Maintain appropriate staffing levels at all times, ensuring that compliance with regulations relating to minimum staffing levels is adhered to. In relation to sickness and absence ensure you have adequate cover, that everyone is informed and bank staff arranged.
  
  • To ensure that when leaving the room for other activities or purposes, including management assigned tasks, that staff are aware of where you are going and the duration. When leaving the room to ensure that it will not compromise the existing staff or impose undue pressure on their abilities to perform the childcare.
  
  • To ensure that supervisions are carried out on a regular basis to assist staff with their development.
  
  • To ensure that conversations or actions that take place amongst your staff that could be relevant to disciplinary action needing to be taken by the nursery or incidents that are significant (positive and negative), are recorded and kept confidential and secure.
  
  • To ensure that the appropriate recognition is given to staff who perform well or carry out their duties over and above what is expected.
  
  • Carry out on-the-job training and coaching for employees.
  
  • Provide induction training and monitor the progress of new employees during the probation period.
  
  • Actively encourage the continual development of best practice.
  
  • Proactively contribute to effective team working and foster open and honest communication amongst all employees within the business.
  
  • Commit to on-going personal learning and development and attend on and off-the-job training as appropriate.
  
  • Work in partnership with early years professionals, for example Health Visitors and SEN services.
  
  • Within reason to comply with requests to work outside normal hours, for example to cover if staff unexpectedly have to leave the room or are called away.
  
  • To attend senior staff meetings, normally outside hours, to be held on a regular basis throughout the year, normally no more than 6 per annum.
  
  • To ensure your staff adhere to the nursery policies regarding personal health, hygiene, dress code, punctuality, sickness and absence, tattoos, piercings and general grooming.
  
  • To ensure staff issues and complaints are dealt with promptly and accurately. Ensure management are informed and consulted where relevant.
  
  • Manage room meetings and ensure minutes are taken and copies given to management.
  
  • Ensuring staff profiles in your rooms are up to date and relevant.
  
  • Ensuring staff training and induction is maintained.
  
  • Attending and taking part in staff meetings.
  
  • Ensuring all room jobs are performed in line with the demands for the beginning and end of the day.
  
  Childcare and Curriculum Responsibilities
  
  • To deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage framework and any other appropriate guidance for young children in accordance with nursery policy and guidelines.
  
  • Observe each child’s progress and report on achievements, looking for progression and continuity alongside the Early Years Foundation Stage.
  
  • Ensure your own key children eyLog profiles and those of your staff are up to date and maintained at the required quality level. Check eyLog profiles every 6 weeks.
  
  • Ensure you have a clear understanding of the settling of new children into your room as well as the transfer of children from your room to others in the nursery, or those going to school.
  
  • Ensure that all employees provide high quality childcare at all times.
  
  • Ensure that employees attend to the all-round daily needs of the children by enhancing their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development.
  
  • Support the children in serving their own food, milk, drinks and snacks and encourage good nutrition and sociable eating.
  
  • Assist children with personal care, including changing nappies, assisting with toileting and other associated welfare duties. Ensure you have a completed and up to date care plan for each child in your room.
  
  • Ensure that all employees maintain an attractive, stimulating and reassuring environment for children inside and outside.
  
  • Action and monitor all child protection issues and accidents to ensure that any remedial action is taken immediately.
  
  • Maintain accurate records for all children including attendance registers.
  
  • Ensure registers are completed in line with the company’s Register Procedure.
  
  • Understand and participate in the key person system.
  
  • Arranging settles of new children and children transferring from room to room. Welcome new parents into the nursery.
  
  • Deal with accidents and incidents and inform parents.
  
  • Keep records and acknowledge children’s birthdays.
  
  • Ensure children have adequate access to the garden and outside trips.
  
  • Kitchen duties and procedures.
  
  • Accepting medicine into the nursery.
  
  Parent and Carer Responsibilities
  
  • Work in partnership with parents/carers, recognising that parents are their children’s first educators, and encourage parental involvement in the nursery.
  
  • Assist and attend regular parent meetings and open days.
  
  • Ensure parents are familiar with the security and procedures surrounding drop off and collection.
  
  (passwords etc.).
  
  • Provide feedback and daily reports to parents about their child’s day at the nursery.
  
  • Inform parents when their child is sick or not their normal self.
  
  • Ensure you know what is going on at home that may have an effect on the child’s behaviour or mood when they are at nursery.
  
  • Be vigilant and diplomatic if you feel that there is a safeguarding or protection issue pertinent to the child. Inform management if in doubt.
  
  • Understand the cultural, religious, ethical or personal preference issues that some parents may have in relation to their child.
  
  • Ensure parents have access to a copy of the handbook.
  
  • Keep the office informed of child absences or holidays. Ask parents about any likely absences.
  
  Room and Premises Responsibilities
  
  • To ensure that risk assessments for your room and other areas for which you are responsible are carried out in accordance with nursery policies and at the correct time and frequency.
  
  • To ensure the room is kept tidy and organised to allow for the efficient use of time and to maintain the high-quality standards that we have set as our on-going objective.
  
  • To ensure that resources for the room are ordered in a timely fashion and in accordance with nursery budgets and are age appropriate.
  
  • To ensure resources, toys and equipment are organised, stored correctly, cleaned regularly and any breakages reported to the office. To have an on-going resource plan.
  
  • To clean obvious marks or spillages (doors, floors, walls etc.) as soon as they happen, within reason. To ensure the office is aware of cleaning that needs to be performed by the nursery provider and taking into account the cleaning that the nursery has assigned to an external contractor. Details on the cleaning chart.
  
  • To ensure any signs pictures or displays that are fixed to the wall are tidy, appropriate and in keeping with nursery standards.
  
  • To ensure you have a display outside of your room that shows the members of your team.
  
  • To make sure rooms and corridors are left tidy and cleared away at the end of the day to include children’s clothes and shoes, resources, cups, plates, utensils, food, drink etc.
  
  • To ensure toilets and nappy changing areas are kept hygienically clean and presentable at all times.
  
  • To ensure when using messy play items especially paint, cornflower etc., that any mess is cleaned up immediately after the activity.
  
  • Room and garden risk assessments are carried out as required.
  
  • Ensure the completion, filing and archiving of all room documentation is done on a monthly basis in accordance with the Storage and Retention of Company Documents guidance.
  
  • Displays changed regularly and in line with themes and seasons.
  
  • Ensure everything in the room that needs to be is appropriately labelled.
  
  • Ensure that appropriate signage is displayed correctly e.g. fire evacuation.
  
  • Answer the phone or entry phone system as appropriate.
  
  Health and Safety Responsibilities
  
  • Help Maintain the safety and security of all children, employees and visitors to the Nursery
  
  • Understand and abide by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
  
  • Help carry out regular assessments to ensure all Nursery Health and Safety procedures are adhered to.
  
  • Ensure the cleanliness of the children at all times.
  
  • Ensure Accident and Incident books are maintained correctly.
  
  • Ensure child registers are kept correctly.
  
  

Job Benefits:

Job Certifications:

• Level 3 or above in Early Years – Essential for the role.
• Paediatric First Aid
• Safeguarding Children Certificate