Education & Quality Manager in Greater London

Greater London

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£43,176

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12 Month Contract

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About the role:

The Education and Quality Manager is a core member of the Educational Excellence Team, working in unity with the Educational Excellence, Regulatory, and Operational teams, to support our estate in collectively achieving our goals.

This role requires in-depth knowledge and understanding of early years education, to motivate Nursery Management to upskill their teams, to clearly demonstrate a culture of excellence.

• You will be supporting nurseries and the Nursery Managers within your region through coaching and mentoring to continuously improve and develop their provision, ensuring that experiences and outcomes for children are of a consistently high standard.
• Through structured leadership and purposeful visits, you will ensure colleagues are preparing children for their next stage of learning by supporting colleagues to bring our pedagogy to life and developing exciting and enabling environments
• Being an ambassador for our brand and values promoting confidence in the quality and monitoring of our nurseries, reflecting on the views of families, and using these as a catalyst for continuous improvement.
• Deliver targeted support and coaching in line with quality improvement plans, internal audits and Ofsted recommendations to scaffold teams in developing their provision and accelerate teaching and learning to the highest levels creating a culture of excellence
• Being an ambassador for continuous professional development, you will adopt a ‘hands on approach’ to upskilling colleagues, delivering core and bespoke training packages and role modelling expected values and behaviours in line with the EYFS, Ofsted requirements

• You will work closely with the Training and Development Manager. Delivering colleague inductions, Paediatric First Aid and where necessary supporting with nursery training days.
• Support Ofsted readiness by conducting monitoring visits and contributing to internal audits and action plans to build confidence and understanding of inspection processes, expectations, and EIF Toolkit.
• You will motivate an ethos of self-evaluation supporting managers in evaluating their provision, identifying key trends and supporting with the creation of action plans for continuous improvement, and follow up on these actions escalating when needed to the Operations Manager.
• Effectively safeguard all statutory compliance within EYFS and Ofsted regulations and keeping confidential sensitive information.
• Be a role model for exceptionally high standards providing colleagues with positive reinforcement and challenging poor practice.
• You’ll enhance our reputation by supporting each nursery team to work seamlessly together, providing families and children with an exceptional experience. Promoting partnerships with families and local services to drive the best outcomes for their children.  
• Occasionally situations may arise where other duties or tasks may be required as reasonably requested by the Society

Who are we looking for?

Essential Qualifications
• Minimum recognised Level 3 qualification in Early Years
• Evidence of Right to Work in the UK
• You will require a clear enhanced DBS and be required to join the DBS update service and renew this each year

Desired Qualification
• BA (Hons) Early Years and/or Early Years Teacher Status.
• Level 3 Training qualification

Essential Experience
• Excellent knowledge of the EYFS learning & development and welfare requirements and an excellent understanding of the Ofsted Early Education Inspection Framework
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience of leading / supporting teams and delivering high quality training.
• A robust understanding of safeguarding and child protection procedures and legislation.
• Significant experience of supporting multiple nurseries to evaluate and raise quality.
• Strong portfolio of continuous professional development.

Desired Experience
• Experience of working across multiple sites for a group provider.

What can we offer you?

• Employee Discounts – Save up to 60% off Childcare, 20% off your Food Shop and 15% off your next Holiday
• 30 Days Annual Leave - Rising with service up to a maximum of 37 days
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes – Benefit from our Stream App and our partnership with Grocery Aid for financial and mental health support
• Full Training and Accredited Development Plans
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Family leave and more!

Apply today! If you would like more information, please email our team at [email protected]

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