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Baby Room Leader Are you a passionate and nurturing early years professional ready to take the lead in creating a calm, caring, and stimulating environment for babies? We're looking for a dedicated Baby Room Leader to join our close-knit team and provide the very best start in life for the youngest children in our care. About us We are a warm, family-centered nursery committed to creating a supportive, respectful, and reflective environment for children, families, and staff. The baby room is at the heart of our setting; it's the first experience families have with us, and we take pride in building trusting, positive relationships from day one. You'll be the welcoming face of the nursery, helping each child and parent feel safe, valued, and part of our community. The role As our Baby Room Leader, you will: Lead a small, nurturing baby room for up to six babies, ensuring the highest standard of care and learning. Work closely with the leaders of two other rooms to ensure smooth transitions and shared best practices across the setting. Provide a warm, settling-in experience for new families, creating strong bonds with both babies and parents built on trust and communication. Plan and deliver age-appropriate experiences in line with the EYFS, supporting each baby's individual development. Maintain a safe, inclusive, and stimulating environment, ensuring allergy awareness, hygiene, and health standards are met at all times. Be fully pediatric first-aid trained and lead by example in implementing safe and caring practice. Support, guide, and motivate your team, fostering a nurturing, positive atmosphere for both staff and children. Communicate effectively with parents, carers, and colleagues, providing regular updates and reassurance. What we're looking for A minimum Level 3 qualification in Early Years. Proven experience working with babies (0-2 years) in a nursery or early years setting, ideally in a leadership or senior practitioner role. Strong knowledge of EYFS, safeguarding, allergy awareness, and best practice in baby care and early development. Paediatric first aid qualification (essential). A naturally caring, calm, and patient approach. Someone who builds trust with ease and takes pride in their practice. Excellent communication, organisation and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate across rooms and contribute to the wider nursery team. Benefits Benefits include a full-time position in a small, nurturing room with only six babies. A supportive environment where your leadership and ideas are valued. Additional leave and company pension. Health & wellbeing program and opportunities for ongoing professional development. You will have the chance to make a lasting impact as the first person that families meet during their nursery journey. Free staff snacks and refreshments in staff area Birthday off Flexibility in hours in when needed Annual Christmas celebration Termly team events Employee bonus structure Salary: £26,000-£32,000 per annum (dependent on experience and qualifications). Why join us? This is a wonderful opportunity for a caring and confident leader to take ownership of the baby room and make it their own. If you're someone who leads with warmth, reflects on your practice, and wants to nurture both children and colleagues, we'd love to hear from you. You'll work alongside a dedicated team and supportive management, with the freedom to shape your role and grow as our nursery continues to develop. How to apply: Please send your CV and a short cover letter outlining your experience with babies and what makes you the right fit for this role. We can't wait to welcome you into our nursery family.

If you are offered a Senior EYP role, you will received a £1000 recruitment bonus after successfully completing your 3 month probation period. We are looking for a Deputy Nursery Manager to join our established Nursery in Stony Stratford. Situated on the site of Elizabeth House, in Vicarage Road, Stony Stratford. Our nursery provides high quality, affordable childcare and early years education for the local community, in a building which has been completely refurbished and extended, with two spacious play areas indoors, with direct access to three outdoor play areas. Overview: - To work in partnership with the nursery manager to ensure effective running of the nursery. - To lead/manage and be held accountable for your designated room/area and staff - To lead/manage the nursery on occasions when the manager is absent - To effectively deploy the staff across the nursery - To have a good understanding of compliance and how to meet the statutory requirements - To act as a representative of Acorn and maintain professionalism at all times - To effectively support coaching and mentoring practices with senior practitioners - To ensure a high level of well-being among children - A good working knowledge and practice of the EYFS and safeguarding procedures Responsibility: - To ensure the staff teams interactions with children are high quality and based on individual need/stage of development - To book, log, carry out Show rounds for prospective parents and ensure that these are followed up - Respond to phone calls and emails from external agencies, parents and any other professional - To demonstrate a positive approach to children's behaviour working in-line with our policy and procedure - To ensure we are adhering to compliance documentation - To ensure complaints, concerns, queries and compliments are managed effectively - To ensure there are professional, positive relationships demonstrated with parents which is reflected among the staff team - To support the staff team to understand and implement planning in the moment - To ensure the environment offers rich, first-hand learning opportunities for all children which accommodates a holistic approach to the curriculum - To ensure children's interests are being met and appropriate teaching methods are being used to extend children's thinking and learning. - To ensure all children are making progress to their full potential - Ensure that you oversee that all children are having regular observations on Famly and these are reviewed and submitted by senior staff on a regular basis - Ensure assessments are complete on a termly basis and that initial assessments are completed in a timely manner - Liaise with the senior team and support the moderation of staff judgements for assessments and work with staff to increase understanding - To support the nursery manager with supervisions of staff members - To ensure all children are given the opportunity to be independent - To ensure all children have the opportunity to be physically challenged - To ensure the correct paperwork in relation to the child, for example care plans, all about me forms, medicine forms, transition forms and two-year progress check (where appropriate) etc - To ensure there is a robust and effective key person approach adopted - To be approachable and supportive to staff using constructive advice when developing practice - To cascade any information or updates to the management and your staff team - To keep abreast and adhere with changes in accordance to Acorn's policies and procedures - To undertake regular peer on peer observations with staff and provide effective feedback - Ensure that you address any staff performance issues or concerns, document these accordingly and liaise with the nursery manager - Carry out return to work interviews in the absence of the manager - Understand how to use Famly to look at occupancy to help to complete staff rotas, check children's booking plans and invoices - Role model, facilitate and work alongside staff to demonstrate high quality practise - To work in partnership with the manager to complete staff inductions - To safeguard all children in our care Expectations: - To have a good understanding of Acorn's core values, ethos and policies and ensure these are reflected in practice - To implement a high-quality provision to support children's learning across the curriculum - To value parents as partners - To ensure/promote children to be happy, confident, self-assured and independent - Effective communication with management, staff, children and parents - To role model outstanding practice and positive behaviour management - To be confident to talk to external agencies, including Ofsted - To keep abreast with changes in legislation, practice and Acorn's policies and procedures. - To provide appropriate mentoring and coaching practices to support staff - To contribute effectively to the leadership and management of the nursery - To have a full knowledge and understanding of each staff member and how to individually support them - To have a good understanding of staff development and how to help them achieve their targets and full potential At Acorn, we're committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. As an inclusive employer, we're happy to consider any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process. You must have the right to work in the UK, be able to provide two satisfactory references, and, due to the nature of our sector, all roles are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Working at Acorn As a thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to making Acorn a safe, nurturing and fun place for our children to be, we offer: Payscales that are competitive, transparent and reviewed annually 65% Childcare discount - Pro rata - According to contracted hours Generous family leave Christmas closure 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays (and the option to buy more) 4 dedicated training days and individual development plans Enhanced pension scheme Cyclescheme Techscheme Length of Service awards Summer and Christmas parties Pay advances Employee assistance wellbeing programme