Nursery Manager at Loose Primary School

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Job Reference #

EDV/2025/LPS/96396

Location

Loose Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 9UW

Contract Type

Permanent

Contract Term

Full-Time

Salary

£27,852.00 Annually (Actual)

Closing Date

8:00am, 9th Jan 2026

Start Date

February 2026 provided employment checks completed

Positions Available

Positions Available 1

Interview Date(s)

w/c 19th January 2026

Interview Date(s) w/c 19th January 2026

About this Role

Little Loose Nursery:

Recruiting a Nursery Manager and Nursery Team

Little Loose Nursery is launching soon, completing our whole-school vision for education at Loose Primary School. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to shape something exceptional from day one. We are building a brand-new nursery within our outstanding EYFS environment, set in beautiful grounds, and we are recruiting a Nursery Manager and a team of dedicated Nursery Practitioners to bring it to life.

As part of Loose Primary School and the Coppice Primary Partnership, you will benefit from exceptional CPD, high-quality professional support, and the opportunity to grow within a forward-thinking organisation that puts children’s needs, character development, and adaptive teaching at the heart of its work.

We are seeking a Nursery Manager who can lead with vision, expertise, and creativity, supported by a committed team who share the same ambition. Whether you are the new manager or someone to support, together, you will shape a stunning nursery provision that reflects our core philosophy: play as the vehicle for deep, meaningful learning. Core working hours for Nursery Manager will be 8.30am - 4.30pm with half hour unpaid lunch break. This is a 37 hour per week role.

Key features of this opportunity

• Build a brand-new nursery from the ground up, shaping the vision, ethos, and direction of travel.

• Work alongside our EYFS Team Leader to draft an adaptive, child-centred curriculum that meets the needs of all pupils.

• Lead and support a team committed to delivering the highest quality of learning and character development.

• Be part of an organisation that invests in people, values innovation, and champions professional growth.

• Work in fabulous surroundings with outstanding facilities and space to design truly inspiring early years learning environments.

• Join a partnership that expects ambition and supports excellence.

We want practitioners who go above and beyond for children, who believe in early years as the foundation for life, and who are excited by the chance to shape something remarkable.

If you are passionate, values-driven, and ready to help build the nursery our community deserves, we want to hear from you.

Please do view the attached document with images showing how our new nursery is expected to look.

The benefits of joining Coppice Primary Partnership:

• Excellent professional development

• The support of committed, enthusiastic and dedicated colleagues

• A supportive and challenging environment

• Pupils who are eager to learn and a credit to the school

• Supportive parents

• Access to private healthcare, including 24 hour GP access

• A family first approach – cover to ensure that you don’t miss important family events

• Free access to wraparound care for primary aged children attending trust schools when staff are required to work. This includes access to the holiday play scheme.

• The holiday play scheme is also open and free to staff who have children who attend other schools when staff are required to work.

• All staff have access to Kent Rewards, a site offering cash back, discounts and vouchers for a range of popular high street stores

• Throughout the year, school and trust wide social events will be available. These will all be optional, but we believe in developing relationships and social events can certainly help! Events will be informal affairs, usually in informal settings and are open to all staff

• A large, modern and well-resourced primary school, set in excellent school grounds, where opportunities for high quality outdoor learning are facilitated

• An opportunity to share a real, relevant and engaging curriculum.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children, and expects our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applications made are subject to a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note, we review applications on a rolling-basis and will therefore close the advert early if we find the right candidate, we look forward to receiving your application.