Childcare Manager
Please apply via the following link: https://hr.breathehr.com/v/childcare\-manager\-craigsfarm\-45475
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Our Childcare Managers are essentially the most influential employees of Simply Play. Our success is dependent on their knowledge and experience, as well as their passion, creativeness, enthusiasm, and empathy. Our managers lead a dedicated team of Playworkers and Modern Apprentices in providing high quality School Age Childcare and helping children to create Awesome Childhood memories both indoors and outdoors.
Our Childcare Managers are responsible for making sure children and staff are: Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Responsible, Respected, and Included. They captain their team and take on a wide range of duties, outcome focussed observations and planning, delivering, and reviewing our service. We are not prescriptive about listing duties and responsibilities as we expect our Childcare Managers to be willing to take on whatever comes their way and lead their team with confidence!
No two days at Simply Play are the same and key aspects of the role will include:
Leadership
- Leading your team to the highest level in all areas, and particularly in the Quality Assurance of your venue
- Having a strong understanding of your venue’s performance, budget, and development
- Managing staff recruitment, development and retention, celebrating success and addressing areas for improvement
- Promoting a positive, inclusive, and child\-centred culture
- Monitoring the Quality Improvement Framework for your venue
- Ensuring the environment is safe, nurturing, and age appropriate
- Overseeing the planning of our play curriculum
- Supporting children’s development and wellbeing through effective recording
- Attending and contributing to Simply Play Managers’ meetings
- Facilitating weekly staff meetings
- Acting as a key point of contact for parents
- Actively seeking and reviewing feedback from parents and children
- Ensuring the service meets all Care Inspectorate standards
- Leading safeguarding for your venue
- Taking responsibility for all risk assessments and dynamic risk assessment procedures
- Overseeing venue Health \& Safety and Food Hygiene requirements
- Handling regulatory reporting and inspections
- Keeping accurate records (attendance, medication, incidents, staff training)
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Free parking
- Health \& wellbeing programme
- On\-site parking
- Sick pay
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