Super Numerary Deputy Manager – Nursery – Fulham

We are looking for a dedicated Super Numerary Deputy Manager to work alongside the Nursery Manager, supporting the smooth running of the nursery while ensuring outstanding outcomes for children, families, and staff.

As the Super Numerary Deputy Manager you will work closely with the Nursery Manager to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the nursery, and play a key role in maintaining excellent standards, inspiring the team and creating a nurturing environment where every child can thrive.

What’s in it for you?

• Annual Leave: 4 weeks paid leave + Bank Holidays, plus 1 additional paid day off for each year of employment up to 1 additional week, and a day off on your birthday.
• Pension: Auto-enrolment in pension scheme.
• Team & Environment: Join a warm, friendly, and supportive team.
• Extras: Enjoy a home-cooked hot lunch every day!

If you’re passionate about early childhood education, have strong leadership skills, and are ready to make a positive impact, we want to hear from you.

• Ensure excellent standards across all areas of the setting are maintained and developed to provide the best outcomes for our children and families
• Ensure and enable excellent delivery of all aspects of the EYFS curriculum in a creative and inspiring way
• Ensure the Nursery ethos of helping every child “learn well” is embedded and executed consistently throughout the Nursery and understood by all staff
• Strong people leadership and role modelling to motivate the team and ensure effective and efficient deployment of staff in the Nursery
• Strong partnership with parents and external agencies to support every child's learning, development and well being
• Ensure all policies and procedures embedded in the setting; with safeguarding being paramount
• Build occupancy to ensure the Nursery is operating at capacity; new children set-up and transitions
• Support on all aspects of safeguarding

• ensuring excellent learning & development outcomes for all children, enabling them to achieve their full potential
• keeping abreast of Ofsted requirements in regard to early years learning and ensuring these are met consistently and pro-active suggestions made to the Area Director to ensure this
• Tapestry management - over-seeing and monitoring all children’s observations, assessments, starting point assessments to ensure they are of high quality and issued to parents in a timely way
• co-leading oversight and coaching of planning & children’s next steps based on the children’s interests
• co-leading with the Manager on staff observations, touchbases and reflective practice to ensure every member of staff has a thorough understanding of the EIF and the curriculum
• bi-annual QIP review with contribution from whole team and proactivity in making recommendations to drive continual improvement
• regular staff meetings to ensure understanding, discuss ideas and address concerns/ issues

• ensuring accurate organisation, completion and cascading of all Nursery administration & health & safety paperwork
• day to day management of parent emails and calls to support exceptional parent partnership
• completion and filing of all nursery records including registers, risk assessments, accident and incident reports, sleep and nappy charts
• ensuring dietary requirements and special requirements are always accurate and up to date
• staff rotas (ratio management) and holiday management
• new children’s paperwork and settling
• safer recruitment – lead the process ensuring safer recruitment policy is met in full, and all paperwork including application forms, references and enhanced DBS are filed. Support Manager with new staff inductions.
• ensuring all policies and procedures are regularly reviewed and embedded in the setting; with safeguarding being of upmost importance

• exceptional people leadership and role modelling to motivate and inspire the team to be amazing teachers
• keeping the nursery a happy and special place to work- warm, friendly, caring
• role modelling and motivating team - building strong team spirit and morale; quickly and effectively dealing with misconduct and staff grievances
• supporting with safer recruitment and induction of new starters, and exits of leavers
• exceptional partnership with parents and external agencies
• regular events and opportunities for parents to come into the setting
• excellent communication with parents and agencies on all nursery matters

• Ensure team have full understanding of their role in safeguarding children
• Team training annually
• Document any safeguarding concerns and share with leadership team
• Action all safeguarding policies and procedures

• Proven experience in a leadership or supervisory role within a nursery setting.
• Proficient in basic computer applications (MS Office, email, etc.).
• Patience, compassion, and a genuine love for working with babies and young children.
• Ability to handle emergencies and stressful situations calmly.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

• NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce or equivalent (essential)
• GCSE Maths / English at Grade C or above or Functional Skills Level 2 in English and Maths (essential).
• NCFE CACHE Level 4 / 5 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce or equivalent (desirable)
• Level 3 SEND qualification (desirable)
• Level 3 Leadership & management training (desirable)
• Degree in appropriate subject including Early Years Care, Finance, Business, Marketing. (desirable)

• Current Paediatric First Aid certification.
• Current Safeguarding certification.
• Current COSHH certification.
• Current Food and Hygiene certification.

• Commitment to continuous professional development.
• Physically able to carry out the requirements of the role.
• Flexibility to work various shifts as needed.
• Enhanced DBS on the update service (or willingness to apply for one)*.