Wellesley Park Primary School in Wellington is home to 300 children, including Wellesley Park Explorers.
We are seeking to appoint an outstanding manger to Join Explorers Nursery as our Nursery Manager and play a key role in growing our provision within Wellesley Park Primary School. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and shape the future of early years education in a modern, purpose-built environment designed to inspire outstanding learning and development.
Be part of something special, creating a nurturing, innovative space where every child can truly thrive.
As part of our Early Years expansion, our Nursey is open five days a week, all year round for children aged 9 months to 4 years.
Level 3 Early Years Education and Childcare qualification or equivalent is essential.
We are looking for:
• A dedicated, hardworking manager who is able to raise and sustain high standards
• Someone who has excellent interpersonal skills with children, staff and parents
• A manager who is able to enthuse and inspire children
• Someone who is able to work as part of a team sharing excellent practice and learning from others.
• A manager to be responsible for the efficient day-to-day running of the Nursery and overall delivery of a high-quality education from children aged 9 months to 5 years.
We can offer you:
• A dedicated and supportive working environment
• Excellent professional development opportunities
• A modern, inspiring setting designed to support exceptional early years learning
• Eligibility to join excellent pension scheme.
• Option to make additional voluntary contributions to pension for local government pension scheme members which can help boost retirement benefits.
• Access to a range of continuous professional development opportunities.
• Trust wide charity events designed to encourage our people to participate in meaningful activities.
• Access to wellbeing provision which offers information and advice on a range of workplace and personal issues.
• Flexible working opportunities.
• Enhanced special leave provision, including additional time off as part of our ‘Personal Day’ entitlement which supports employees to achieve a better work/life balance.
• Free car parking.
• Gym membership. Many of our schools have on-site gyms, the use of which is available to employees at a discounted rate.
• Cycle to work scheme which enables employees to purchase a bike and accessories for their commute to work.
• Free tea and coffee.
The post is for 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday between the hours of 7:30am and 6:00pm all year. The salary scale is Grade 11 on the School Support Staff Pay Scale £32,597 to £36,363 per annum (£16.90 to £18.85 per hour) dependant on experience. The Employer pension contribution is 24.4%.
Visits to the setting are welcome, please phone the school office to make an appointment. A full job description and application pack is available on the school website. Please note, applications by CV or incomplete forms will not be considered.
Closing date: Wednesday 25th March 2026 at 9:00am
Interview date: Tuesday 31st March 2026
As a school we are committed to the safeguarding of our community, we follow full safer recruitment procedures including relevant references and DBS checks.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 under the Exceptions Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020). This means that both spent and unspent convictions and cautions may need to be disclosed. However, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ under filtering rules and do not need to be disclosed. Guidance on what should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.
Blackdown Education Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexuality or religion.
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS). As part of our due diligence process when shortlisting, we may carry out an online search of publicly available material to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore with the applicant at interview.
References: References will be taken up on short-listed candidates that will include questions about past disciplinary actions or allegations in relation to behaviour with children, previous employers may be approached for information to verify particular experiences or qualifications before interview.
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