Quality Assurance Manager

Quality Assurance Manager

Location: Nottinghamshire

Starting: ASAP

Salary: £35,000 - £36,000

You will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check

Working: Monday - Friday - 40+ hours working over 4 days

Purpose of the role

To oversee the quality and operations of a group of our After School Clubs and all of our Nursery settings. To line manage Nursery Managers and After School Club managers in a way which motivates, supports and engages them to be the very best version of themselves.

• To ensure that all of our nursery settings maintain their Outstanding Ofsted grading and to support our newly registered nursery settings to confidently achieve Outstanding at their post Registration Inspections.
• To ensure that our nursery settings meet forecast targets for growth, conversion rates and occupancy at all times.
• To ensure that our After School Club settings are compliant at all times with regards to the EYFS, and with regards to our internal quality assurance processes.
• To support Managers with their Safeguarding responsibilities and act as a senior DSL.
• To ensure that all staff are supported with their implementation of our Graduated Approach for children with SEN and / or Disabilities.
• To work in a collaborative, organised and proactive manner with Staff, Managers, School and Business Managers to ensure we are providing the best possible service at all times.

Responsibilities:

• Assess and monitor the quality of teaching, learning and practice within our nursery settings to ensure our standards remain impeccably high at all times.
• Lead on the quality of teaching and learning across the nursery sites, ensuring that staff have regular feedback and critique to enable them to be Outstanding practitioners.
• Complete quality assurance visits weekly on the nursery settings and communicate effectively ideas for ongoing improvement and development.
• Ensure that our nursery settings are following our in-house curriculum, planning and staff planner document at all times.
• Complete termly supervisions of the managers in your cluster group giving clear actions and guidance for managers to improve what they do.
• Complete termly Welfare Requirements Audits of all of the settings in your cluster to ensure compliance at all times and monitor and support settings to complete any actions raised.
• Attend nursery staff meetings to support staff with training and continued professional development of all staff.
• Support nursery managers with recruitment of high-quality staff to support their teams as and when required.
• Work collaboratively as part of the Senior Leadership Team communicating any concerns or issues and identifying any solutions to problems.

Candidate requirements:

• Relevant experience of overseeing multi-site childcare provision.
• Proven experience of supporting sites to demonstrate excellence during Ofsted inspections.
• Excellent knowledge of teaching and learning.
• A firm understanding of the EYFS, New Development Matters and the Early Years Inspection Handbook.
• Excellent safeguarding knowledge and proven experience of handling referrals successfully with all parties.
• Confident to use a range of IT packages.
• Excellent organisational, interpersonal and administration skills.
• An understanding of the unique needs and demands of staffing a number of childcare settings.
• Excellent communication and team working skills - ability to thrive in a fast paced and quickly changing environment.
• An understanding of the principles of Safer Recruitment.
• Ability to travel to various school settings within the Nottinghamshire area - Own transport required.
• This role will require an occasional visit to Head Office based in Nottingham.

We offer an employer pension contribution scheme and a pro-rata annual leave entitlement of 24 days (full time) plus bank holidays, in addition to company incentives.

We are committed to Safeguarding Children therefore you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

The Lime Trees is a family-first business, our aims are simple: we support the community and families in it to make sure we're contributing at all levels, while giving children a brilliant platform on which to build their education.