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Join Our Team at Busy Bees – Leading Nursery Group in the UK \n As a Senior Room Leader at Busy Bees, you will oversee multiple rooms and ensure that educational strategies are seamlessly integrated across the centre. This is a leadership role where you will inspire your team to achieve the highest standards of care and learning. \n About Us Busy Bees is the UK's leading nursery group, with nearly 400 nurseries across the UK and more overseas. We are dedicated to giving every child the best start in life and are proud to have won awards for our workplace culture. At Busy Bees, we ensure that every member of our team feels heard, valued, and nurtured. \n Why Work at Busy Bees? We offer a supportive environment that empowers you to create engaging, educational spaces where children can thrive. As part of our team, you’ll be introduced to our unique Bee Curious curriculum, designed to foster curiosity and confidence in young learners. \n Our Charitable Commitment Through our partnership with BBC Children in Need, we offer fantastic opportunities for community involvement and fundraising to support children's lives. About our Nursery Crawley, rated Good by Ofsted, is a spacious nursery located in a purpose-built warehouse with a single-level design for all children's rooms, complemented by an upstairs training room. With a capacity of 132 children, we collaborate closely with local schools and various agencies to provide tailored support for individual children. Our nursery enjoys a convenient location with good access to bus and train links, along with free parking available for staff. Additionally, we feature a sensory room to enhance the learning experience and ensure a nurturing environment for all children. Busy Bees Benefits \n\n • Competitive salary \n, • Ongoing professional development and career progression \n, • Our ‘Hive’ benefits and wellbeing hub, with discounts across a huge range of retailers \n, • Up to 28 days holiday per year (including bank holidays)\n, • Your birthday off – it’s our gift to you!\n, • 50% childcare discount \n, • Enhanced family leave and return to work bonus\n, • Menopause support through Peppy \n, • Financial support through Salary Finance \n, • Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders\n, • Cycle to Work scheme \n, • Easy access to your workplace pension through Cushon\n, • Discounted Private Medical Insurance (PMI)\n What to Expect as a Senior Nursery Room Leader: • Ensure that educational strategies and practices are consistent across multiple rooms., • Lead the planning and delivery of activities, adapting the curriculum to meet the diverse needs of the children., • Mentor and develop Room Leaders, promoting a collaborative and high-performing team., • Oversee the wellbeing and safeguarding of children, making necessary adaptations to support children with additional needs., • Foster strong relationships with parents, keeping them informed of their child's development., • Level 3 qualification or above in early years education., • Experience in an early years setting, with supervisory or leadership experience ideally as a Senior Nursery Room Leader, Senior Nursery Room Manager or Senior Nursery Practitioner., • Strong leadership, organisational, and communication skills.

We are looking for someone who is happy to work as an individual contributor and who has succession planning experience and has worked in a global organisation. Does this sound like you? The Opportunity: This is a unique, "hands-on" role for a talent professional who wants to move beyond traditional recruitment or generalist HR and focus on finding and identifying talent. You will help build our global critical role bench, creating and tracking internal and external pipelines crucial to our future success . We are in the early stages of maturing our succession data. We don’t have a massive team or a bottomless tech budget —what we do have is a clear mandate from the top to manage our succession for the future. You will be the one to build the "Golden Thread" between internal talent assessment and external market pipelining. This role is for you if: • You are a pragmatic problem solver. You don't need a massive agency budget; you know how to use LinkedIn, AI tools, and your own network to map a market., • You are data-literate. You’re comfortable working with spreadsheets and Workday to turn messy succession data into a clear risk map., • You enjoy assessment. You want to go deeper than just "hiring"—you want to understand why a leader is successful and help internal successors close their readiness gaps., • Succession Mapping: Audit our current critical roles and build a 12-month plan to find or work in conjunction with the Head of Talent Development to build capable talent for them., • Agile Executive Sourcing: Execute targeted external searches for senior leadership roles. You’ll be expected to headhunt directly where possible to reduce our reliance on expensive search firms., • Building the Toolkit: Help us select and embed the right low-cost, high-impact AI sourcing and assessment tools to make our talent process more efficient., • Stakeholder Partnering: Act as a credible advisor to senior leaders, providing "outside-in" market intelligence on what our competitors are doing., • Assessment developing benchmarks and tools to measure capability and potential that can be effectively applied both internally and externally., • Internal Development Tracking: Work with Regional HR leads and Head of Talent Development to ensure that "Ready in 2 years" internal candidates actually have the development support they need to become "Ready Now." in place and we can measure our progress as a team and organisation, at reducing risk, managing our talent and planning for our future success., • Candidate Experience and search management: Manage end-to-end seamless active search processes to attract, assess, select and onboard internal and external talent.Embed exceptional internal and external candidate experiences and learnings and manage 3rd party relationships with search and executive firms where required. What you need to succeed: • Proven Experience: You’ve likely worked in an in-house Talent Management function or a high-end Executive Search firm with pipeline management experience., • The "Hunter" Skillset: You are excellent at identifying and engaging passive talent directly., • Relationship Builder. You are able to navigate matrix organisations and influence at all levels., • Assessment Interest: Experience (or a strong desire to develop) in leadership assessment tools (e.g., Hogan, PAPI)., • Grit: You are happy to "muck in." We are building the plane while flying it, so you need to be comfortable with ambiguity and limited resources., • Commercial Mindset: You understand that every internal promotion we land and every direct hire we make saves the business significant cost.

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EYFS Phase Leader | Harrow | September 2026 Apply now, read the job details by scrolling down Double check you have the necessary skills before sending an application. We are seeking an ambitious EYFS Phase Leader for a well-established primary school in Harrow, recognised for its inclusive ethos, strong community links and commitment to developing confident, respectful learners. As EYFS Phase Leader, you will lead a dedicated team to deliver high-quality teaching and learning across Nursery and Reception. The school is looking for an EYFS Phase Leader who can uphold high standards while creating a calm, supportive environment where children feel safe, valued, and ready to learn. As EYFS Phase Leader, you will: • Lead EYFS team and ensure high-quality learning, • Deliver a play-based, engaging curriculum, • Mentor staff and share best practice, • A Primary PGCE with QTS, • Strong experience within Early Years, with clear evidence of impact, • The ability to motivate and guide a team with clarity and purpose, • A supportive and approachable leadership team, • A welcoming, community-driven school environment, • Excellent CPD and career progression opportunities

A children's nursery provider located in Crawley is seeking a Nursery Room Leader to support their team and work alongside management. The ideal candidate will possess a Level 3 Early Years qualification and have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a nursery setting, delivering high-quality care and

Here at Zero2Five we are delighted to be working on behalf of a thriving independent Nursery based in Bletchingley, Redhill who are looking to employ a Level 3 Qualified Room Leader or a Level 3 Qualified Nursery Nurse looking to progress in their early years journey. Here at Zero2Five we are deligh

A family-owned nursery in Crawley is looking for a Room Leader to create and deliver outstanding early years education.You'll lead the room, inspiring your team while ensuring high-quality care and development for children.Strong knowledge of EYFS and child development, combined with leadership expe

A leading nursery organization in Horley seeks a passionate Nursery Room Leader for under 2's/2-3yrs. You will manage daily room operations, inspiring creativity and building trusting relationships with children and families.

This role has a competitive starting salary of £41,955 - £45,244 per annum for five days a week (36 hours), across 42 weeks of the year. Are you an enthusiastic qualified Speech and Language Therapist with over two years experience who would like to develop your skills in Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD) settings? We have a great opportunity to join our skilled, supportive, and solution-focused team! The South-East Surrey Speech and Language Therapy team are looking for an experienced therapist to work in one of our MLD schools. You will work as part of a small team, including Therapists and Assistants, and be supported by a Team Lead with highly specialist skills. This post will be combined with your other clinical interests, including mainstream or dysphagia work. Our Offer to You 42-week contract, working across term-time and an additional, flexible 15 days for CPD, project work and supervision activities as well as 10 weeks holiday in non-term time Belonging to a team of students, therapists and assistants led by a Therapies Manager who is an SLT Comprehensive clinical supervision programme including a buddy, 1:1 meetings with line manager, extensive in house training programme and formal external training opportunities, access to clinical effectiveness groups, case study groups and enhanced probation support, termly whole-team study days, encouragement to join and attend CEN's relating to practice Opportunities to develop management skills by taking on line management of assistants or experienced autonomous therapists (NQPs who have completed competencies) and taking students. Training and support is provided Paid RCSLT membership and HCPC fees An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year Paternity, adoption and dependants leave A generous local government salary related pension Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more 2 paid volunteering days per year Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resourcesAbout the Role The Speech and Language Therapy Service is part of Surrey County Council's local offer to support the special educational needs and disabilities of children and young people within mainstream schools and specialist provision. This Service is part of the Early Intervention, Prevention and Support Service in Surrey's Children, Families and Lifelong Learning Directorate, and works collaboratively with other teams such as Educational Psychology, Specialist Teachers and SEN teams. The Surrey SLT service is a large team (over 150) of both qualified Therapists and non-qualified Therapy Assistants. We have excellent supervision and CPD models plus a rolling in-house training programme; we are committed to continuous learning and development. We champion our team and one of our Therapists was voted People's Choice in the Surrey Stars Awards, receiving over 500 votes showing just how well the service is regarded in the organisation! We are a forward thinking service and were involved with the RCSLT and Reading University around the dysphagia competences linked to student placements. We aim to deliver the right support at the right time, through assessment and intervention; equipping families and professionals with the skills and resources to work together to support children with SLCN. We offer universal, targeted and specialist support for children, families, and the school workforce; working with children and young people with EHCPs and those at SEN support following Surrey's Graduated Response. We also have a specialist dysphagia service and specialist deaf service. Your main duties in the role of Specialist Speech and Language Therapist will include: Clinical decision making in conjunction with school / college staff around the level of support needed to achieve the best possible outcome for the children and young people on your defined caseload Working with Speech and Language Therapy Assistants, setting targets for the children and young people they are supporting, and monitoring of the delivery and outcomes of their work Assessment, advice and intervention for children with a range of speech, language and communication needs within your caseload. For children and young people on your caseload who are considered to have complex needs and where a joint multidisciplinary approach is essential to achieving the best outcome for these children and young people, you will be supported by your clinical team leader Supporting junior members of the team, line managing others and taking on students Contributing to and delivering training for schools and others in the teamYour Application In order to be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours: A degree in Speech and Language Therapy with a minimum of 2 years' experience working as an SLT with completed NQP competencies Registered with the HCPC and RCSLT, and eligible to work in the UK Working knowledge of the English education system including the National Curriculum and SEND code of practice Experience of supporting and training others including newly qualified therapists, assistants, students and work experience placements Evidence of a range of evidence based interventions used to support children and young peopleSurrey has both urban and rural areas and candidates will be expected to have a valid driving licence to drive in the UK, access to a vehicle and be willing to travel across a wide geographical area. An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role. To apply, we request that you submit a CV and you will be asked the following 4 questions: Are you registered with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) Do you have a minimum of two years' experience working as a Speech and Language Therapist with completed NQP competencies? Please answer 'yes' or 'no' as appropriate. If you answer 'no' please provide further details. Do you have working knowledge of the English education system including the National Curriculum and SEND code of practice? Please tell us more about this including how have you have gained this knowledge. Please briefly describe a speech and language strategy or approach that you have supported staff or children to successfully use in the classroom. How did you measure its success?The closing date for this advert is 23:59 on 07.05.2026 although we will be reviewing applications as they are received and may interview in advance of the closing date, therefore we encourage an early application. Interviews are planned for 13.05.2026. Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) Surrey County Council is undergoing Local Government Reorganisation, moving from a two-tier system to two new unitary councils in April 2027. If you are employed by Surrey on 1st April 2027, your role will transfer with current terms and conditions to one of the new organisations, supporting local devolution and greater powers for our communities

Ideal candidates will have at least a Level 3 qualification in early years education and experience as a Nursery Room Leader. A leading nursery group in the UK seeks an experienced Room Leader to oversee multiple rooms and inspire a high-performing team.

Previous experience working within an Early Years setting – ideally as a Room Leader, Nursery Nurse, Nursery Practitioner, Early Years Educator or similar. Full and relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification. We’re looking for a Room Leader to join our.

A local government authority in Greater London is looking for a Course Leader for Early Years and Teaching Assistant roles. Applicants should have a teaching qualification and significant experience in Early Years education.

A reputable early years education provider in Greater London is seeking an Early Years Educator to deliver exceptional care and education to children aged 0-5. Candidates should possess a Level 3 Early Years qualification and have experience in a childcare setting.

A leading nursery and preschool group in Greater London is seeking a Nursery Room Leader to join their vibrant team. As a leader, your role involves overseeing nursery operations, ensuring quality care for children, and embodying the values of the organization. The position requires a level 3 childc

We’re looking for a passionate early years leader to join the management team at our Best Start Family Hub. As a Room Leader, you will lead a team of early years practitioners, ensuring children are happy, safe, loved, and thriving. You will oversee staff in the successful implementation of the da

Room Leader & Early Years Educator - Join the Dream Team at Zero2Five!. Are you a passionate Early Years professional ready to step into a leadership role? Do you believe that every child deserves a magical, stimulating start to their education? If you're a Level 3 Qualified superstar (or an ambitio

Candidates should hold a Level 3 qualification in Childcare and have at least 1 year of experience working in Early Years. A nursery group in the United Kingdom is seeking a full-time Room Leader to provide stimulating experiences and maintain development records for children.

A leading early years recruitment agency in the UK seeks a passionate Room Leader & Early Years Educator to inspire and lead a team in a purpose-built nursery. Candidates should hold a Level 3 Early Years Qualification or a Level 2 and possess a genuine love for education.

A childcare services provider in Greater London is looking for a Deputy Room Leader to join their nursery team. This role blends leadership with hands-on childcare, where you will support and shape children's development in a nurturing environment.

The ideal candidate will hold an NVQ Level 3 qualification and have a strong understanding of early childhood education. A leading nursery in the United Kingdom is seeking a passionate Nursery Room Leader to oversee daily operations and nurture children's growth.

The ideal candidate will possess a Level 3 qualification in early years education and have strong leadership and communication skills. A leading childcare provider in Greater London seeks a passionate Room Leader.

A prominent early years provider in Leatherhead is seeking an experienced Curriculum Room Leader to join their nursery. Strong knowledge of EYFS and previous experience in an Early Years setting are essential.

A children's activity provider in Bedford is seeking an Early Years Leader to oversee the Early Years programme on camp.

The ideal candidate will have a Level 3 qualification in Early Years Education, experience in a supervisory role, and a passion for child development. A dedicated recruitment agency is seeking an enthusiastic Room Leader/Third in Charge for a nursery in Billericay.

The ideal candidate has a Level 3 qualification in early years education and leadership experience in an early years setting. This role involves developing a high-quality curriculum and providing leadership to staff.

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A recruitment agency is seeking an Early Years Preschool Room Leader for a permanent position in Bath, UK. Candidates should have a Certificate of Higher Education and at least two years of experience in nursery and childcare settings.

A child-focused nursery in the United Kingdom is seeking an Early Years Practice & Quality Manager. This role involves leading an early years team, fostering a warm and inclusive environment, and supporting staff development. The ideal candidate has a Level 3 qualification and experience in early ch

The ideal candidate will have experience in early childhood education, strong leadership skills, and a dedication to creating a safe and nurturing environment. A childcare center in Greater London is looking for a passionate Room Leader to oversee children's rooms and lead a team of childcare profes

Ideal candidates will have a level 3 childcare qualification, leadership experience, and a passion for early years education. A leading nursery group in Greater London is seeking a Nursery Room Leader to join their team.

Simple Recruitment are looking for an Early Years Preschool Room Leader for a permanent opportunity with our client in Bath. Our client is looking for an Early Years Preschool Room Leader who has the passion, enthusiasm, an affinity with young children and professional skills to motivate the childre

An international school in Greater London is seeking a Head of Early Years Education to lead its Kinderhaus program. The role involves strategic management across two sites, ensuring compliance with both German and UK regulations for early years education. The ideal candidate is fluent in German and

A leading early education provider is seeking a Room Leader for their Crouch End Day Nursery and Preschool in London. Applicants must have a Level 3 Early Years qualification and experience in an educational setting.

A leading early years provider in Leatherhead is seeking an experienced Nursery Room Leader to provide high-quality care and education. Candidates should have a Level 3 Early Years qualification and passion for childhood education.

A childcare provider in the UK is seeking an Early Years Practitioner to join their West Finchley Day Nursery team. The successful candidate will promote high standards of quality, support staff in their roles, and ensure compliance with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Requirements include

A premier early years education provider in Greater London is seeking a Room Leader to oversee exceptional early years education. Essential qualifications include a solid understanding of EYFS and practical experience in an early years setting.

The role involves managing the Early Learning and Training Partner team, delivering training, and embedding high-quality Early Years practices. Ideal candidates will have leadership experience, a Level 3 qualification, and a minimum of 2 years in the sector, with strong problem-solving and coaching

A leading independent prep school in Greater London is seeking an ambitious EYFS Lead to join its Early Years team from September.

Our Early Years Leader oversees the delivery of the Early Years programme on camp, fostering an exciting, enjoyable and nurturing environment. It is the duty of the Early Years Leader to coordinate, direct and support the rest of the Early Years team to ensure high quality childcare is delivered at

A prominent childcare provider in England is seeking a Room Leader to deliver exceptional early years education and nurture a positive environment. This role requires strong knowledge of EYFS and child development, along with previous experience in early years settings, preferably in leadership.

A local authority in Greater London is looking for an Early Years Officer. Ideal candidates should have a Level 3 qualification in Children's Care Learning and Development, alongside at least 3 years of leadership experience.

A children's nursery in Greater London is seeking an enthusiastic Room Leader to join their caring team.

As the Senior Early Years Educator (Nursery Room Leader) you will work in partnership with other Room Leads and the management team to ensure the successful running of the nursery. A Level 3 or above qualification within early years. Proven experience working as an Early Years Educator (Nursery Nurs

Ideal candidates will hold a Level 4/5 Childcare Qualification and possess a strong understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Ideal candidates hold a Level 3 qualification in early years education and possess leadership experience in settings for children. A leading childcare provider in the United Kingdom is looking for a Senior Room Leader to integrate educational strategies across multiple rooms while inspiring and ment

The ideal candidate will hold a Level 3 qualification in Early Years Education, have experience in a leadership role, and possess excellent communication skills. A leading nursery provider in the UK is seeking a passionate Room Leader to join their vibrant team.