Pre-School Manager

Package Description

For details of our extensive benefits package, please refer to our Total Rewards Statement (attached).

The Role

We have an exciting, and rarely available, opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic Pre-School Manager to join our team of Early Learning Practitioners on a full-time, permanent basis.  

Reporting directly to the Depute Rector - Infants, the Pre-School Manager will be an active and motivated participant in the life and direction of the school and will lead by example and in doing so will support and inspire the Pre-School Team in terms of our Aims and Values and the future vision of the Pre-School.

This role requires a dedicated and enthusiastic professional committed to fostering all aspects of a child’s development in early years education whilst balancing the demands of both managerial and operational leadership.

Applications are dealt with on receipt and early applications are encouraged.  We reserve the right to close the deadline before the published date if sufficient applications are received.

Main Responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description

The Ideal Candidate

Please see attached Person Specification

About the school/organisation

Situated within the heart of the Primary School at Kingarth Street is Hutchesons’ Pre-School.

Hutchesons’ Pre-School (pre-schoolers and nursery) spend half their time at the pre-school facility at Kingarth Street and half at H@PP (on Haggs Road) which is a recently converted facility with a modern, airy feel.  Hutchesons’ at Pollok Park (H@PP) provides 10 acres of green space and woodland. The children attend Kingarth Street and H@PP with their key person group.  

The Pre-School sites, both indoors and outdoors, offer the best play-based learning opportunities for children from 3 to 5 years old and provides a safe, secure and nurturing environment in which children flourish. 

Values and Aims

Hutchesons’ is committed to providing a safe, secure and nurturing environment in which children will flourish.

By supporting and challenging children through a rich, active, play-based curriculum, we ensure that every child fulfils his or her potential.

Underpinning all that Hutchesons’ represents are our six core values - Honesty, Resilience, Independence, Curiosity, Creativity and Compassion - which shape our vision for Pre-School education.

Our Aim is to ….

• Foster and develop children’s creativity and curiosity, giving them time to explore and shape their own ideas.
• Promote self-confidence, independence and an inquisitive mind-set, sowing the seeds for life-long learning.
• Identify opportunities for children to discover and gain a better understanding of the wider world and their place in it.
• Develop an awareness of self and others, leading to an understanding of the value of mutual respect and cooperation.
• Provide a broad-based, balanced curriculum incorporating key skills to ensure a seamless transition to Primary 1.
• Encourage an open and positive partnership between nursery, home and the wider community.
• Above all, our key priority is the happiness, health and well-being of every child in our care.

Hutchesons’ prides itself on being an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. If you have what it takes, we really want to hear from you.