Deputy Nursery Manager | Weston-super-Mare

Location: Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset
Salary: £15.28 per hour / £31,782.40 per annum
Hours: 40 hours per week
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Schedule: Monday to Friday

Closing date - 22nd November 2026

Ready for your next step in Early Years leadership?

Are you an experienced Room Manager, Deputy Nursery Manager, Third in Charge or Early Years Team Leader looking for your next nursery management job in Weston-super-Mare?

We're looking for a passionate and confident Deputy Nursery Manager to help lead our nursery team, support outstanding practice and create an environment where children and colleagues can thrive.

Working closely with the Nursery Manager, you'll play a key part in the day-to-day leadership of the nursery, supporting your team, maintaining high standards and ensuring safeguarding and children's wellbeing are at the heart of everything we do.

Why join us?

We want you to have more than a job. We want you to build a career you enjoy.

You'll benefit from:

• £15.28 per hour / £31,782.40 per annum

• 33 days' holiday for full-time colleagues, including bank holidays

• An additional paid day off for your birthday

• Excellent staff childcare support from day one. For eligible colleagues in England, where funded childcare applies, a 100% discount applies to remaining childcare fees after available funding has been used, subject to availability and scheme conditions

• Training and career development, including apprenticeships, mentoring and learning resources

• Clear career progression, including opportunities to develop towards a Nursery Manager role

• Wellbeing support, with services that may include 24/7 emotional support, virtual GP/nurse access, online physiotherapy and medical, financial and legal helplines

• Stream financial wellbeing tools

• Gym and lifestyle discounts

• Cycle to Work scheme for eligible colleagues

• Recognition and rewards, including Adventurous Applause, colleague awards, referral rewards and long-service recognition

• Team events and celebrations

We're proud to be a Great Place to Work® certified organisation and recognised by The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, reflecting the supportive, inclusive culture we're building for our people.

What you'll be doing

As Deputy Nursery Manager, you'll:

• Support the Nursery Manager with the day-to-day leadership and operation of the nursery

• Lead, motivate and support the Early Years team to deliver consistently high standards

• Take responsibility for the nursery in the Nursery Manager's absence

• Help ensure staffing and deployment maintain safe ratios and meet children's needs

• Support high-quality teaching and learning in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

• Coach, mentor and support colleagues with their professional development

• Support effective supervision and performance conversations

• Build strong and positive relationships with children, families and colleagues

• Help maintain a safe, stimulating and inclusive nursery environment

• Support nursery compliance, policies, procedures and operational standards

• Promote excellent safeguarding, child protection, health, safety and welfare practice

• Lead by example and bring our values to life every day

What we're looking for

You'll need:

• A full and relevant Level 3 Early Years / Childcare qualification or equivalent

• Strong knowledge and understanding of the EYFS

• Good knowledge of safeguarding and child protection within Early Years

• Experience working within a nursery or Early Years environment

• Previous experience supervising, managing or leading a team

• Confidence supporting the day-to-day operation of a busy nursery

• Strong communication, organisation and leadership skills

• A caring, positive and professional approach

• A commitment to safeguarding and promoting children's wellbeing

• An Enhanced DBS or willingness to undertake the required check

Previous experience as a Deputy Nursery Manager, Room Manager, Third in Charge, Senior Early Years Practitioner or Early Years Team Leader would be a strong advantage.

Grow your Early Years leadership career

Already working as a Room Manager, Third in Charge, Senior Nursery Practitioner or Early Years Team Leader and ready for your next step?

Or are you an experienced Deputy Nursery Manager looking for a new challenge?

This could be your opportunity to develop your leadership career within a growing Early Years organisation, with opportunities to progress towards Nursery Manager and wider management roles.

Our culture is built around our ARCH values: Accountability, Reliability, Caring and Honesty, with learning, recognition and career opportunities forming part of our colleague promise.

Safeguarding children

Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility.

Our safer recruitment process includes the appropriate identity and Right to Work checks, references, Enhanced DBS and barred-list checks where required, qualification verification and employment history checks.

Easy to reach from across North Somerset

Our Weston-super-Mare location could be convenient for candidates travelling from:

Weston-super-Mare | Worle | Milton | Locking | Uphill | Bleadon | Banwell | Winscombe | Clevedon | Burnham-on-Sea | Highbridge | North Somerset

Ready for your next adventure?

If you're looking for a Deputy Nursery Manager, Assistant Nursery Manager, Room Manager, Third in Charge or Early Years management job in Weston-super-Mare or North Somerset, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and take the next step in your Early Years leadership career.