Nursery Deputy Manager
Closing in 12 days (16 October 2026 11:59 pm)
Job details
Salary: £13.48 to £13.91 per hour
Employer: Curry Rivel C of E VC Primary School and Little Pips Nursery
Location: Curry Rivel, Somerset,
Contract type: Permanent
Working pattern: Full time
Closing date: 16 October 2026 11:59 pm
About the job
Key information
Full time – permanent
Grade 14 point 4-6 (dependent on experience) – £13.48 to £13.91 per hour – £26,016 to £26,847 per annum
37 hours per week – to start November 2026
Between the hours of 7.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday, all year round.
We are a thriving nursery within the beautiful village of Curry Rivel with a new management team.
What will I be doing?
Due to an internal promotion for the Manager role, we require a Deputy Nursery Manager who is passionate about childcare, who can support our new Nursery Manager to lead a growing team and work to ensure consistency and to share best practice.
We provide a calm, purposeful and innovative environment which includes beautiful forest school grounds and a modern spacious building. We are looking for someone who shares our enthusiasm for providing high quality childcare.
Deputy Nursery Manager day to day tasks include:
- Working alongside the Nursery Manager take responsibility for the safety and welfare of children between the ages of birth and 5 years
- Accountable to maintain and achieve quality and standards
- Support the Nursery Manager to ensure effective leadership and development across the nursery team
- Proactively advise and support parents
- Responsible for safeguarding including being DDSL
- Responsible for identifying and actively promoting staff development
What kind of experience or qualifications do I need?
You must have excellent knowledge of the EYFS as well as skills and experience of working with children aged 0-4 years old.
If you are an outstanding practitioner already or have the potential to be outstanding, if you work hard and are excited by challenge and success, then we would like to hear from you.
DBS check
All positions in school would require a criminal background check via the Disclosure Procedure as we are committed to safeguarding our children.
Supporting documents and information
Curry Rivel Primary School & Little Pips Nursery are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
The Governors and Leadership Team proactively support the well-being of all staff through an open and transparent culture, supportive buddies, a regard for work-load, a live on-going discussion about well-being in staff meetings and regular staff social events.
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed. Please make an appointment with the school office for our Head teacher, Mrs Angela Sullivan, to show you our lovely school. Application forms and further details are available from the schoo.
Closing date: 16 October 2026