Homeoffice Early Years Locality Services Manager presso Action for Children

Early Years Locality Services Manager. 

Salary: upto £51,100 per annum depending on experience.

Location: Homebased (preference is Central England close to transport hubs as this role covers England and Scotland locations.

Contract: Permanent – 37 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 Early Years Locality Services Manager, you will strategically lead a range of Action for Children’s Early Years and Childcare services and provide line management to Early Years Managers. As a member of our Senior Leadership Team, you will be instrumental in driving exceptional performance and ensure high-quality and safe delivery that helps us achieve our goal to provide the best start in life.   

How you'll help to create brighter futures   

• You will manage and lead a team of Early Years Nursery Managers to provide services that meet regulatory and organisational requirements.  
• Promoting the highest standards of safeguarding practice through leading and managing processes and action around safeguarding. 
• Taking a lead role to promote collaborative relationships with existing and potential commissioners. 
• Providing effective leadership, management to implement change and transition in clusters, including start up, growth, closure, and reshaping of services. 
• Holding overall responsibility for planning and deployment of resources. 
• Creating and managing budgets. 
• Deputise for the Operations Director. 

Let's talk about you as Early Years Locality Services Manager. 

• Minimum Early Years Qualification at Level 5.  
• Demonstrable evidence of continued management training and development. 
• Experience of leading, motivating and managing Early Years managers to deliver quality and high performing Early Years provision. 
• Experience of applying service improvements through the workforce and addressing challenges within the management of people.  
• Applying financial and commercial acumen and awareness. 
• Building and developing effective networks, relationships, partnerships. 
• Experience of ensuring effective safeguarding practice and process is applied. 
• Experience of building and growing and retaining services.  

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

Contact: email us at [email protected] quoting reference 11938. 

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Closing Date: Wednesday 24^th 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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 See below for further information about working with us:   

Job Description  

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