Early Years Quality Manager - Oxford

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 dedicated Early Years Quality Manager in the Oxford region, 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.

The ideal applicants will have extensive knowledge of the EYFS and Ofsted’s Early Years Inspection Framework. We are looking for applicants that can demonstrate explicitly their experience of assessing a settings quality based on these frameworks and how they would support settings on a continual programme of improvement.

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 Internal Training and Senior Management teams 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 Early Years Teacher or Early Years Professional status

· 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

• Experience of Multi-site management desirable

The role is field based requiring travel between sites within the region 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.

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.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: From £38,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Childcare
• Company events
• Company pension
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Referral programme
• Wellness programme

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location