Deputy Nursery Manager

Nursery: The Learning Hive, Audenshaw, Manchester M34 5GB Hours: Full Time, 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday Salary: Up to £15 per hour (dependent on qualifications and experience) plus £1,000 Welcome Bonus Benefits: Performance related bonus, 50% childcare discount, wellness day and much much more. **£1,000 Welcome Bonus ** Remarkable Futures Start Here Passionate about Pedagogy? Every day at The Learning Hive, we inspire our children to be inquisitive, imaginative, and confident learners. Through our carefully designed environments and nurturing approach, our children quickly develop a genuine love of learning and a curious mind. We’re proud to have been providing high-quality early years education for over 20 years, supporting families from our local community and beyond. Our spacious, converted Victorian home offers a warm and inspiring setting—where every room is filled with rich learning opportunities. Outdoors, our garden spaces are designed for adventure, using natural resources that spark imagination and deepen our children’s connection with the world around them. Our experienced and passionate team brings a wealth of early years expertise. We know that every child is unique, with their own story to tell, so we tailor our approach to suit each child’s pace, personality, and interests—ensuring they feel supported, seen, and celebrated. Great Location with Excellent Transport Links Our nursery is conveniently located just 10 minutes from Manchester city centre , making it easy to reach for both staff and families. Storal’s Purpose To give children healthy foundations in fantastic settings, helping them build the confidence and resilience that will set them up for success later in life. The Team & Environment You’ll have a supportive Nursery Manager, Office Manager and Early Years colleagues to help with the delivery of the Storal curriculum. Our nurseries are warm and nurturing environments that not only support children to be ready for school, but also equip them with all the life skills they need to flourish and succeed. How you’ll spend your time here Day to day as a Deputy Manager you will be an intrinsic part of the Nurseries success ensuring the setting has the right team, culture, policies and resources to deliver the highest possible standards of childcare and early years education. You’ll offer solutions where you identify areas for improvements whether that relates to learning and teaching techniques or, creating more stimulating experiences and environments for the children and their educators. You will embrace inclusivity to ensure the individual needs of all those within your care are achieved. We’d love to talk to you if you have the following • A full and relevant Early Years Education qualification Level 3 or above or equivalent • Experience in a managerial role including nursery administration or similar • A strong knowledge and understanding EYFS framework • Reflecting the Storal values around responsibility, openness and working together and experienced in providing staff training and support • Demonstrable leadership qualities (ideally within Early Years) • Excellent communication skills with both children and adults Benefits for You For you - We get the basics right enhanced holidays, paid sick pay, extra wellness day off (yearly) and you can access your pay before payday with Pay Captain Family matters - Balance starts at home Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity leave Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind Partnerships with Vitality & Peppy; fertility & menopause support, gym discount, free movie tickets Development - Investing in your future with micro-learning, financial stability tools & the Storal Support Fund Our community -Growing together Termly inset days, team member app and Storal Awards Not everything fits in a job advert Click apply today, don’t worry if your CV isn’t perfect just send us what you have and we’ll work out the rest later. Storal sets the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment that encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS. INDDEP