Nursery Manager

Forest Barn Nursery School

Address: The Barn at Tooks Farm, Great Warley Street, Great Warley, Brentwood, Essex, CM13 3JP

Hours: Full Time, Monday - Friday

Salary: Up to £16.50 per hour plus £500 Welcome Bonus

Benefits: Performance related bonus, 50% childcare discount, wellness day and more

£500 Welcome Bonus

Remarkable future starts here

Every day at Forest Barn, we nurture our children's natural curiosity and creativity in an environment designed to spark imaginations and build confidence. We're proud to offer an exceptional learning space where children develop a real love for learning and an inquisitive, confident mindset.

Outdoors, we're truly spoilt for choice. From our Nissen hut and sensory garden to the fruit patch and nearby woodland walks, nature plays a key role in our children's development. With two gardens and a large field, there's plenty of opportunity for exploration, adventure, and calm connection with the world around them.

Our cosy, home from home environment is filled with natural resources that invite play and ignite wonder. And our commitment to community shines through in our special partnership with the local care home-where residents regularly join us for tea and shared joy with the children.

At Forest Barn, learning, nature, and community come together to create a truly magical place for our children.

About Storal

Storal stands for high quality outcomes for children and are passionate about Early Years. Bringing your whole self is a must if that's pink hair, being Neurospicy or having a unique pastime, we encourage it all. Your unique self is what makes our Nursery even better.

About the role

As a Nursery manager you will be a key part of keeping our children safe, loved and inspired to learn. Key activities include:

• Applying the Storal curriculum & our pedagogy principles to our children daily
• Seeking out learning opportunities in everyday routines such as mealtimes & transitions
• Bond with your children and their families by engaging in meaningful moments

About you

• A true love for child development and care
• Able and willing to work in a team
• Ability to communicate effectively with management, your peers and parents
• High levels of care and empathy that every opportunity can be a learning opportunity
• Role modelling remarkable practice with the intent to support others around you
• Knowledge of the EYFS framework

Must haves

• Early Years qualification at Level 3
• English GCSE or equivalent
• Maths GCSE or equivalent
• Experience working with all age groups within Early Years

Why work for us

For you - We get the basics right: Holidays 25 plus bank holiday - plus earn up to a additional 5 service days, sick pay & personal Wellness Day

Enhanced DBS check and subscription to the DBS Update Service

Family matters - Balance starts at home: Childcare Discount + Funding, compassionate leave & enhanced maternity (and more)

Health & wellness - Nourishing body & mind: Discounted gym memberships, spa days, fertility support & so much more.

Development - Investing in your future: Micro learning, financial stability tools & Storal Support Fund

Our community - Growing together: Termly inset days, team app & Storal Awards gathering.

We partner with world leading third parties such as Pay Captain, Vitality, and Peppy.

Curious to know more? We'd love to tell you more about what makes Hemsley House so special.

Safeguarding

Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the 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.