Toddler Room Leader

The role of the Room Leader is to work as part of the management team to provide professional leadership and management to the playroom staff and to ensure that all children receive the highest standards of care and education.

You will hold a full and relevant qualification in Early Years at Level 3 or above, understand and ensure the requirements of the EYFS and Ofsted are met and ideally have experience working in a busy nursery setting.

What do you have to achieve?

- High standards of care and education
- Compliance with all regulatory requirements
- Positive working relationships with staff, parents and carers
- Playroom staff who feel supported in their roles

Key responsibilities

Childcare and Education

- Promote high standards of quality within the nursery in respect of the environment, resources and experiences offered to children.
- Provide professional and relevant feedback to parents/carers about their child.
- Ensure all records of development and learning are fully and accurately maintained by the appropriate staff.
- Ensure appropriate planning is in place to maintain the required standards consulting with the Senior Nursery Nurse when necessary.
- Provide leadership and support to playroom staff to enable them to establish and maintain positive working relationships.
- Deploy staff appropriately to ensure that the required standards are delivered and maintained within the playroom.
- Ensure that practice and provision in the nursery meets the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
- Ensure the effective implementation of the nursery keycarer procedures and allocate children to keycarers appropriately.
- Ensure that children are kept safe and that staff understand and, when necessary, follow Safeguarding Procedures.
- Support the development of good practice with regards to special needs and inclusion.
- Implement and support others in delivering, the EYFS in line with current practice and guidelines.
- Develop and maintain highly professional working relationships with relevant Local Authority Departments, regulatory bodies and other agencies.

Health and Safety

- Undertake a shared responsibility for health safety and cleanliness throughout the nursery.
- Adhere to all health and safety policy and procedures.
- Be fully aware of all emergency and security procedures.

Operational

- Support the Nursery Manager and staff during inspections by regulatory bodies and assist in the implementation of any recommendations.
- Promote the nursery to current parents and potential customers.

Staff

- Support and supervise playroom staff with their day-to-day duties.
- Support and mentor staff and students.
- Be responsible for taking part in all self-development activities such as appraisals.
- In conjunction with the senior management team identify and address individual training needs of playroom staff.
- Develop open and positive working relationships with staff.

General

- Adhere to all Company policies and procedures.
- Ensure that the Company’s polices on diversity and equal opportunities are adhered to.
- Undertake any other duties as reasonably requested by line management.
- Assume additional management responsibilities as and when required.
- Ensure that all staff develop and maintain friendly and professional relationships with parents and carers.

The duties and responsibilities in this job description are not exhaustive or restrictive, changes and other duties relevant to this post may be added. This job description may be reviewed in the future.

Skills / Qualifications:

- You will hold a full and relevant qualification in Early Years at Level 3 or above