Quality Manager en Action for Children

Quality Manager. 

Salary: £42,900 - £53,100 per annum depending on experience.

Location: Homebased.

Contract: Permanent – 35 hours per week.  

Benefits:     

• 28 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with 3 additional days for continuous service.   

• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.   

• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.   

• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.   

• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts.   

   

Why Spring Nurseries   

Imagine a place where laughter echoes, imaginations run wild, and every day is a new adventure. That's Spring by Action for Children! We're not just a nursery; we are a family dedicated to creating a joyful and nurturing environment where children thrive.  As part of Action for Children, we're on a mission to provide outstanding early education that's accessible to all. 

A bit about the role    

In this permanent role as Quality Manager, you will strategically provide senior leadership, specialist support and quality assurance to Early Years Locality Managers and Service Managers across Spring and Oscars Childcare. You will be accountable for managing the ‘Quality Matters’ assurance framework including training, professional guidance, and support to Managers to drive high quality standards in line with regulatory requirements across Wales, England, and Scotland.

How you'll help to create brighter futures 

• Provide leadership, support and professional challenge to ensure that all services fulfil the responsibilities placed upon them through statutory regulations, internal policies, and procedures. 

• Develop, lead, and deliver a UK wide quality strategy which ensures that early years and childcare provide high quality services in accordance with Ofsted/Care inspectorate (Wales & Scotland) requirements. 

• Manage the UK wide program of robust internal quality assurance.

• Build effective relationships with managers and staff and provide leadership, support, and challenge through these relationships.

• Ensure that safeguarding and welfare requirements are audited and monitored.

• Responsible for the promotion of best practice and continuous improvement across all services.

• Keep abreast of the latest developments in the Early Years across each nation.

• Responsible for monitoring all complaints in relation to quality and supporting Service and Operations Managers as needed with investigation of complaints, taking further action if appropriate.

Let's talk about you as Quality Manager. 

• A degree in Early Years or Teaching. 

• A Leadership and management qualification or be willing to work towards this. 

• Early years professional with previous track record of delivering nurseries at Good / Outstanding level. 

• Local Authority advisor or inspector experience (desirable). 

• Ability to offer an independent voice.

• Expert knowledge and understanding of regulatory requirements (Ofsted / Care Inspectorate) 

• Current and up to date safeguarding training.

• Excellent management and leadership skills.

• Strong stakeholder management and be confident in communicating with all levels of management and senior leadership. 

Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.    

Contact: email us at [email protected] quoting reference 11937. 

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Closing Date: Thursday 25th September 2025. 

Interviews are scheduled for week commencing 6^th October 2025 by MS Teams. 

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.   

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion    

At Spring we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.    

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.    

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.    

Application Process   

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.   

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration – please refer to the Job Description when applying.    

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.     

   
Talent Pool: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.    

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Job Description

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