We’re now looking for a Nursery Deputy Manager to join a team, someone who’s ready to get stuck in, spark imaginations, and help children thrive. For a beautiful newly refurbished setting in Penrith. Why this nursery? Great Place to Work Certified 2025/26 Ranked 1 UK Best Workplaces for Women 2025 Crowned NMT’s Large Nursery Group of the Year, for the second year running 80% Childcare Discount – T&Cs apply What we’ll offer our Nursery Deputy Manager: Free breakfast, lunch, and healthy snacks to…
Join this nursery in Higher Broughton as a Deputy Manager!
We’re now looking for a Deputy Manager to join our team, someone who’s ready to get stuck in, spark imaginations, and help children thrive.
Why Higher Broughton?
Great Place to Work Certified 2025/26
Ranked #1 UK Best Workplaces for Women 2025
Crowned NMT’s Large Nursery Group of the Year, for the second year running
80% Childcare Discount – T&Cs apply
What we offer our Deputy Managers:
Life Insurance cover and access to a health plan.
Free breakfast, lunch, and healthy snacks to fuel your day!
Accredited training through our awesome KP Academy and bespoke training platform.
Enhanced leave for maternity, paternity, fertility, and adoption because family matters.
Wellbeing goodies, staff rewards, and fun events all year round.
Long service awards to celebrate your commitment.
Take the day off on your birthday, it’s all about you!
Competitive salary, pension plan and enhanced holiday allowance.
Friendly central support team always on hand to help.
How you’ll make a difference as a Deputy Manager:
Through working alongside the manager to help with all areas of running the nursery, making sure everything runs smoothly day to day.
By building warm, trusting relationships with families and work together with outside agencies to support each child’s growth and wellbeing.
Guiding and support the nursery team, keeping children safe at all times and bringing the EYFS to life in a way that’s fun, engaging, and meets all requirements.
What a Deputy Manager needs:
Must be at least Level 3 qualified in a UK recognised early years qualification.
Excellent understanding of EYFS.
Extensive knowledge of safeguarding children.
Leadership experience within a nursery setting.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Join us in making a meaningful impact on the lives of young learners as an Early Years Educator!
Best Start Recruitment want to help you to make the right choice in your next career move. If you meet the criteria set above, or would like Early Years Career advice please apply ASAP for an informal and confidential chat.
We cater for all Early Years jobs and currently have Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager, QTS, Montessori, Room Leader and Early Years Practitioner / Nursery Nurse vacancies.
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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.
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