# Nursery Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/nursery-manager/0d828f15-c822-4630-894a-e964832dbc43 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/nursery-manager/0d828f15-c822-4630-894a-e964832dbc43.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust - **Location:** Pinderfields Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nursery manager - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-09-20T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-04T12:36:06.027Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9377-26-0404 - **Application URL:** https://careers.midyorks.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?jobid=1560&source=JobtrainNHSJobs - **Employer website:** https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary We are seeking an experienced and passionate Nursery Manager to lead the day-to-day operation of our nursery, ensuring the highest standards of care, safety, and early years education. Working within NHS, Ofsted, and Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) frameworks, you will provide strong leadership to the nursery team, fostering a positive and supportive environment for children, families, and staff. You will be responsible for managing and developing a dedicated team through recruitment, induction, performance management, and ongoing professional development. Building strong partnerships with parents and carers will be central to the role, promoting open communication and supporting each child's learning, wellbeing, and individual needs. The successful candidate will oversee the safe and efficient running of the nursery, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, managing operational issues, and taking responsibility for responding to and resolving concerns or complaints. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated leader who is committed to delivering outstanding childcare and creating an inclusive, nurturing environment where children can thrive. ### Main duties of the job Responsible for maintaining a high quality, stimulating learning environment, leading, and supporting staff. Acting as an expert by sharing their knowledge and skills to others. They are creative and reflective leaders able to implement new ideas and use a range of strategies to continually improve practice within the nursery. To ensure the nursery environment and activities take into account childrens abilities, interests, language and cultural backgrounds and be sensitive to the childrens cultural capital and individual needs and promote equal opportunities and recognising diversity. To lead the nursery team to maintain consistency and continually improve the Nursery curriculum and childcare practice whilst reflecting on the guidance document from the Department of Education Early Years Foundation Stage. To act as the Designated Safeguarding Lead for the nursery, ensuring the safety and welfare of children is the paramount concern. Responsible for managing and maintaining the service within the agreed self funded budget. ### About us We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day. ### Details - Date posted: 04 September 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 6 - Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: 001549 - Job locations: Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities Qualifications - English and Maths GCSE Grade 4-9 or equivalent - Level 3 in Childcare Qualification - Paediatric First Aid - Food Safety Certificate Level 2 - Designated Safeguarding Lead training - Early Years Foundation Stage Degree or equivalent experience - Evidence of continued professional development - Management and leadership knowledge acquired through training and experience Experience - Significant post qualifying experience in a supervisory position with under 5’s in a nursery setting - Experience of identifying and improving childcare practice - Experience of investigating formal and informal complaints - Experience of recruiting, managing and supervising staff - Experience of change management and implementing service improvements - Experience of managing multiple income streams and expenditure within a self-funded budget - Experience of processing and supporting parents to access the Educational Funding Knowledge and awareness - Knowledge of the Ofsted’s Statutory Framework for Early Years, Special Educational Needs Code of Practice and the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum - Knowledge of the Ofsted’s inspection requirements - Knowledge of developing and implementing early years curriculum within a nursery setting - Knowledge of safeguarding processes and procedures, prevent duty and capital culture - Awareness of own limitations. - Knowledge of childhood illnesses, health & safety regulations relating to a childcare environment, and to carry out risk assessments and use the outcomes accordingly. - Knowledge and understanding of need to maintain confidentiality. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Ability to satisfy Occupational Health screening. - Maintain a safe working environment for self and others. - Ability to lift and manoeuvre children throughout the nursery’s daily routine. ### Experience **Essential** - Significant post qualifying experience in a supervisory position with under 5’s in a nursery setting - Experience of identifying and improving childcare practice - Experience of investigating formal and informal complaints - Experience of recruiting, managing and supervising staff, staff appraisal process - Experience of change management and implementing service improvements - Experience of managing multiple income streams and expenditure within a self-funded budget - Experience of processing and supporting parents to access the Educational Funding - Experience of working with the area SENCO to develop and write Education Health and Care Plans for children with Special Educational Needs ### Qualifications **Essential** - English and Maths GCSE Grade 4-9 or equivalent - Level 3 in Childcare Qualification - Paediatric First Aid - Food Safety Certificate Level 2 - Designated Safeguarding Lead training - Early Years Foundation Stage Degree (level 6) or equivalent experience - Evidence of continued professional development - Management and leadership knowledge acquired through training and experience **Desirable** - Early Years Foundation Stage Certificate - Early Years Foundation Stage Degree - Early Years Teachers Status ### Personal Attributes **Essential** - Commitment to own personal and professional development and development of others within the team. - Self-motivated and the ability to motivate others - Excellent organisational and time management skills and the ability to work under pressure to achieve deadlines. - To be adaptable to change - To be approachable, good listener/communicator and supportive of team’s wellbeing. - Adaptable and flexible according to the demands of the service. ### Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with children, adults, and other professionals. - Confident in leading, managing and implementing changes to the service to meet the changing needs of NHS employees and the Trusts. - Develop and maintain positive working relationships. - Ability to deal with conflict and support NHS employees though difficult circumstances. - Good time management skills including ability to work to set deadlines. - Ability to support and act as an expert to the staff team, students and give support and advice to parents. - Ability to receive and communicate information verbally and in writing e.g. reports, letters, emails. - Ability to work on own initiative, to prioritise and plan workloads for self and others. - Good IT skills with a high degree of accuracy including Microsoft Office, Excel and the nursery management system. - Ability to carry out capacity planning in order to maximise occupancy levels and meet service demands. ### Knowledge and Awareness **Essential** - Knowledge of the Ofsted’s Statutory Framework for Early Years, Special Educational Needs Code of Practice and the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum - Knowledge of the Ofsted’s inspection requirements - Knowledge of developing and implementing early years curriculum within a nursery setting - Knowledge of safeguarding processes and procedures, prevent duty and capital culture - Awareness of own limitations. - Knowledge of childhood illnesses, health & safety regulations relating to a childcare environment, and to carry out risk assessments and use the outcomes accordingly. - Knowledge and understanding of need to maintain confidentiality. **Desirable** - Knowledge of Code of Practice for Special Educational Needs ## Documents - [Job Description and Personal Specification (DOCX, KB)](https://careers.midyorks.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=5100&JobId=1560) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.