Room Leader

Job Ref No. ECC -2S Position Type: Early Years Pay Range: 30,

Position Start Date: 01/11/2026 Contract Type: Full-time Contract Term: Permanent

Application Close: 21/10/2026 Midnight Date of Interviews: TBC

About Us: St Luke's Chapel is a brand new nursery, which opened in September 2025. Due to increasing numbers, we are now growing our team in 2026.

At the heart of Canopy, it is our vision for exceptional early childhood experiences. Canopy Nurseries are vibrant and nurturing, we are dedicated to providing high-quality early years education. We believe in creating a supportive environment where children can thrive, explore, and develop a lifelong love of learning.

We are currently recruiting for a Room Leader

As a Room Leader, you will manage and inspire your room team to deliver exceptional care and education. You will create a warm, safe, and stimulating environment where every child can grow and hit their individual milestones.

Key Responsibilities & Tasks

• Lead a team within your room, providing mentorship, support, and guide staff members within your room.
• Deliver the EYFS Curriculum and support's the Canopy Curriculum to ensure a child-centred approach, and ensure the observation and planning process meets the needs of all children
• Be a key-person for a group of your own key children, and build strong parent partnerships.
• Keeping records up to date on our Famly App, and completing quality observations and assessments.
• Pan and deliver a range of exciting activities and experiences for children, and oversee the planning of your team members.
• To maintain an organised, safe and stimulating room environment.
• Ensure effective supervision of children to ensure they remain safe, and complete ongoing risk assessments, ensuring play and learning experiences are safe and age appropriate.
• Fulfil your roles and responsibilities, and legislation duty in relation to safeguarding children by ensuring you follow safeguarding and child protection procedures
• Have a clear understanding of and adhere to all policies and procedures, and follow legislations from governing bodies.
• Working as part of a larger team to ensure all essential day to day tasks are completed in line with the nursery demands, ie. Hygiene Standards and Room Preparation.
• Build relationships and communication clearly and positivbely with parents, carers, colleagues and external agencies
• Implement and maintain the nursery's Equality Policy, ensuring that all children, parents and staff team are valued and included.

Qualifications and Experience:

- A full and relevant Level 3 or above childcare or Early Years Qualification

-Experience of working with children aged 0-5 years in an early years setting, ideally with previous leadership or senior responsibilities

- Strong knowledge and understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and OFSTED standards

- Knowledge of safeguarding practices and regulatory requirements

- Excellent communication, patience, and a positive, problem-solving attitude

- Ability to support and inspire nursery colleagues to achieve the highest standards of care and education

- Ability to manage workload and manage time effectively

Hours:

This role is a 40 hour per a week contract, all year round.

Various shifts depending on nursery needs.

Shifts will be within the hours of 7:15am and 6:45pm, Monday to Friday.

• 20 Days Annual Leave, Plus Bank Holiday and a closure week between Christmas and New Year
• Discounted childcare rate for staff children

Canopy Nurseries is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Please note: We undertake safeguarding checks on all our staff in accordance with the DfE statutory guidance 'Keeping Children Safe in Education'. As part of these checks, we require at least two employment references, one which must be your current / last employer. We also require a current Enhanced DBS Disclosure for everyone working in our nursery. If you do not have a valid subscription to the DBS Update Service, we will require you to complete a new DBS application as part of the on-boarding process. All original certificates and DBS certificates must be seen as part of our safer recruitment checks.

All appointments are subject to safer recruitment requirements to ensure the safeguarding of children and young people. All positions will involve appropriate checks and clearances.

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Rachel Judd
St Luke's Way
Runwell, Wickford
Essex, SS11 7JJ Telephone:
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