Nursery Room Leader - St Albans, United Kingdom - Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery St. Albans

Description

Monkey Puzzle St. Albans has been recently taken over and are owned and operated by the Kent family who are passionate about providing outstanding care and education to our children every day, sharing the family love right through our fantastic team of professional child carers

Our organisation is growing fast, with plans to open more nurseries in the future, so
progression within our organisation is a very real and achievable prospect.

We provide training and development plans for all team members to ensure that we are always learning and improving together.

We believe in working collaboratively with and for each other to create our very own Monkey Puzzle family.

We always say that when you join our team you
become part of the family, and this family approach transcends through everything we do for our team and the children.

Benefits of joining our team:

Personal and Professional Growth:

We place a
huge emphasis on self-development and growth.

We do annual performance reviews where we celebrate the year of successes and identify targets for development in the future.

We work with you throughout the year to offer support and funding to complete your targets so that you can continue to grow as a person and as a professional.

Our Vision and Ethos:

Our vision is
"Inspiring children to change tomorrow's world', which we bring to life with the 6 themes of our Ethos.

Active Childhoods, Creative Minds, Eating Healthy, Loving the Planet, Evolving with Time and Equality & Diversity. These themes support how we teach and support the children, but they also underpin our family approach, supporting each other to be the best versions of ourselves.

Our values were defined during a project where Team Highbury and Angel build our vision, which reinforce how we work together each day, embracing who we are and our differences to bring our vision alive.

Our 'High 5' values are:
holding hands, kind hands, open hands, clapping hands and your hands.


Leadership Coaching:

If you aspire to become a leader in our team then we want you to achieve your goal
We always say any one can be a leader at any time, provided the organisation and team culture promotes
freedom of expression, sharing of ideas and our team vision. We offer bespoke leadership coaching for leaders and managers which helps and supports them to be the best leader,
promoting team effectiveness and positive working culture.

Myers Briggs & Team Effectiveness:

We always want to support our teams to work well together,
respecting each other's views and celebrating different skill sets and preferences. Myers Briggs is a personality typology, offering an introspective view of psychological preferences, helping us to better understand our colleagues and how different people perceive the world and make decisions.

Progressive Salaries:

We offer some of the best pay available in the early years sector, with
generous salaries and annual pay reviews to share the successes of our growing organisation with each and every team member.

We also
reward additional childcare qualifications and operate a
bonus schedule for loyalty to our nursery. Our Nursery Practitioner salaries start from £22,000 p/a with annual reviews. Each staff member gets a generous holiday allowance of
25 days holiday plus bank holidays.

Loyalty Bonus Scheme:

We really
value longevity in role and dedication to our team, so we offer a
Loyalty Bonus Scheme which rewards and celebrates each team members journey with us.

Referral Bonus:


Our Wellbeing Programme:

We know that in order to get the best for our children we must also
support and promote positive wellbeingin our team.

We have a specific
wellbeing programmedesigned to encourage everyone in our team to look after each other, look after themselves and look after the team.

We celebrate successes, share our appreciation and gratitude and spread the love where ever possible We also offer
individual support through any
mental healthchallenges with a personalised approach to suit individual team members.

We know that despite a passion for working with children, life has its own trials and tribulations, and we are always here to offer support and guidance.

We have a team of
Mental Health First Aiders, who are trained in dealing with complex mental health challenges and can support you every step of the way to have a
fulfilled and happy career with us.

Staff Training and Team Building:

We have 3 Inset Training Days each year, where we get together for some
team building activities
and explore a range of training topics relating to childcare and quality of teaching and learning.

We encourage our team to champion specific areas of interest, train to learn new skills and ideas, and share this learning for the wider team at our training sessions.

Do you think you have what it takes to be a leader, shine in that moment,