Aimi Cooke

• Managing a group of nurseries across the North West as an Area Manager. Including 7 local authorities.
• Supporting and leading (11) acquisition nurseries and Area Managers through the process. Working alongside a team and the Childcare Director to ensure all acquisitions have a smooth and welcoming transition into Kids Planet.
• Taking an active role across all operational elements, including coaching and mentoring the team to understand data and make a positive impact at each nursery.
• Ensuring quality care and education for all children and their families attending Kids Planet. Promoting the Kids Planet ethos and CARE values.
• Promoting a positive work environment with an increased employee retention rate. Ensuring all team members feel supported to thrive in their roles professionally.
• Developed strong teams by skilfully recruiting and training loyal, hard-working employees. I have a great level of management retention.
• Upskilled staff through targeted training opportunities, enhancing future succession planning.
• Work collaboratively with all Kids Planet departments to ensure positive outcomes and reach out for support where needed to ensure the best outcomes for all.
• Have a clear understanding of Kids Planet systems and KPIs
• Ensured compliance with all regulatory standards, including Ofsted welfare regulations, Environmental Health, and other external agencies.
• Applied expertise to the management team to address productivity and performance issues, motivating staff to achieve KPIs.
• Analyse sales and occupancy data regularly for informed decision-making processes. Including nursery expansions, such as Little Lever Baby House, Hazelhurst, creating additional space, and currently Canal House Tipi. Working alongside LA and Kids Planet teams. To secure funding and expansion opportunities.
• I foster a culture of continuous improvement within the organisation.
• Approached new tasks and projects with enthusiasm and passion,
• Liaised regularly with Directors to discuss operational updates and improvements. Ensuring nursery teams are kept up to date and receive training where needed.
• Act quickly on incidents and complaints to minimise risks. Ensuring competency in reporting quickly and factually to the relevant personnel.
• Conducting audits and risk assessments to achieve regulatory compliance daily and through the EYFS compliance audit.
• To be a brand ambassador for Kids Planet, celebrating Kids Planet's journey and future planning for the nursery group, Inline with Kids Planet's core CARE values.

• Collaborate with group of 100 plus managers and departments, to ensure company practices are in place.
• Ensure safeguarding practices are extensive and appropriate for individual settings, compliant with Kids Planet and Ofsted requirements.
• Mentor and empower mangers to upskill. Motivating quality leadership and management
• Support with acquisition process.
• Conduct management inductions, succession planning, new colleague inductions and supervisions.
• Improved team efficiency by training and mentoring individuals and setting achievable performance goals.
• Developed ongoing programmes using good team communication and collaboration.
• Support strategies to boost FTEs. within nursery.
• Develop nursery and communal areas to ensure effective and eye pleasing environments.
• Conduct audits including first impressions. ensure outstanding actions are met.
• Complete weekly record of visits for each setting. including action planning.
• Communicate effectively to relevant personnel.

• Managed day-to-day Nursery operations, including supervision and assignment delegation for 37 member team.
• Worked flexible shift patterns to accommodate nursery opening hours.
• Attended professional development opportunities to drive improved outcomes for children and families on regular basis.
• Owned timely completion of daily administration activities within nursery and wider Kids Planet group across 82 settings.
• Strengthened operational efficiencies and traceability, developing organisational filing systems for confidential child and staff records and reports.
• Scrutinised existing practices to identify opportunities for continuous operational grow
• Ensure effective recruitment, selection, and training of educators, assembling well-rounded, compassionate care teams.
• Delivered on job guidance, training, and support to 37 early years, educators.
• Lead mentored and supported team members to ensure high-quality early learning opportunities and care that exceeded Ofsted Welfare Requirements.
• Emphasised CPD of teams knowledge and understanding of professional expectations within Kids Planet Nursery group and towards Ofsted Welfare Requirements, while following Birth to Five Matters Framework.
• Promoted continuous learning and improvement within Kids Planet through regular staff supervision, review of practice, and practical adaptions to ensure improvement and continuous company progression. Ensuring outstanding outcomes for children and their families.
• Improved cross-departmental communications by implementing regular staff meetings, training opportunities, and clear communications systems within nursery and other Kids Planet sites.
• Led nursery team to achieve Ofsted rating of Outstanding in 2014 under Jelly Babies Day Nursery Registration. Still waiting for inspection under Kids Planet registration,
• Planned logistics of nursery routine and local excursions, managing sufficient ratios and rotas.
• Worked in partnership with parents to address and resolve attendance, behaviour, and progress issues.
• Mentor and have supported Increased student enrolment applications by 100% since 2020 by promoting brand image within local community and working in collaboration with Kids Planet Academy.
• Cultivated safe and productive learning environment for 100% of young learners at Kids Planet Little Lever.
• Built and nourished excellent relationships with parents and carers by maintaining email correspondence and scheduling termly meetings.
• Built rapport and connections with children and their families to enhance overall wellbeing.
• Promoted high calibre of teaching through leading quality staff teams, recognising gaps in learning opportunities, and being proactive in making changes and adaptations, where required.
• Maintained safe, engaging environment for children, families, team members, and visitors through diligently completed and evaluated observations and action plans.
• Promoted children's social, emotional and physical development, encouraging learning through Ofsted Welfare Requirements and Birth to Five Matters Framework.
• Maintained detailed records of learning and development progress, sharing with parents and carers to support cohesive care.
• Formulated and tracked cohort objectives to increase child development outcomes for all children.' motoring progress and ensuring targeted interventions where required.
• Supported pupils in achieving their fullest potential through observations, termly assessments, tracker support plans for children who are not meeting learning goals or excelling in age and stage expectations. Children who are identified as Special Educational Needs (SEN) are supported through Early Help assessments and Setting support plans. Review these for all children regularly.
• Working in partnership with parents is essential to aid achievement in promoting children's progression. This allows for holistic approach to education. while supporting parents' understanding of developmental needs and processes.
• Signpost and/or support parents who require parenting support. including registering at dentist, toileting support, and coping with difficult behaviours.
• Maintained continued knowledge of Special Educational Needs is best practices and improvements through regular training programmes.
• Contributed to development of child care plans, setting specific development goals according to children's needs and wishes.
• Designed individual education plans to encourage growth according to different learning abilities and needs.
• Nurtured positive relationships and genuine engagement in diverse communities through working in partnership opportunities and elevating cultural needs (Cultural Capital), within local community and its surrounding area.
• Participated in regular health and safety and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) training, verifying right systems were in place to safeguard welfare and health of children, parents, and staff team.
• Worked as part of team often taking lead, on Team Around Child (TAC) meetings. Through multi-agency approach. including Police, Paediatricians, Speech and Language Therapists (SALT), Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Health Visitors, Social Workers, Foster Carers, School Leads, and family members. Ensuring best outcomes for children.
• In addition, support staff team in everyday tasks including nappy changes, routines, and other responsibilities to ensure smooth running of nursery, where required.

• Achieved BA Hons Degree in Early Childhood Studies in 2013 and actively pursued further professional development by attending ongoing CPD training, to enhance skill set.
• Ensured full compliance to internal policies and procedures in alignment with external legislation and regulations of governing bodies.
• Led mentored and inspired team of 8 by providing constructive feedback in regular 1:1s, supervision, and appraisals.
• Acted as first point of contact to discuss care and education for 40+ children by liaising with parents and senior management.
• Led observations and assessments of learning and development of 40+ children termly.
• Promoted compliance with EYFS curriculum requirements and integration of British values in learning and play.
• Planned and facilitated stimulating range of age-appropriate activities for children from birth to five-year-olds, including creative play and arts and crafts.
• Owned safeguarding activities for children and promote health, safety, and welfare of children and staff members.
• Ensured child records were consistently up-to-date, accessible to nursery teams, and maintained to high standard.
• Ensured first-class customer experiences through valuing customer care requirements, parents' evenings, newsletters, and regular updates on their child's development.
• Monitored high cleanliness standards within learning environments and during hygiene routines.
• In addition to all room lead duties, played active role in general day-to-day duties. Including setting up activities, nappy and toilet training duties, giving first aid where required and administrating any medications required,

Secondary role room based

• Room-based position included supporting key groups of children meeting all their individual needs staff teams of 4 practitioners. working together to ensure quality teaching and learning opportunities for children in Toddler room age 2-3 years old.
• Duties include providing well-balanced program of activities including messy play, games, stories, songs, and other related activities, communicating with both parents and children regarding children's day at nursery.
• Also relating children's development, birth to three matters, keeping children's observations and evidence of work up to date.

Role as Deputy Manager

• Planned, managed, and oversaw centre operations, ensuring consistent compliance with OFSTED requirements.
• Provided record-keeping assistance to 20 staff, verifying observations were accurately entered in children's developmental journals.
• Keeping displays up to date, newsletters, and planning.
• Facilitated smooth operations, developing and maintaining bank of care staff to guarantee optimal cover,
• Inspected nursery and equipment for signs of disrepair and coordinated repairs and replacements.
• Revised fee structure, in line with annual increase.
• Complete general housekeeping duties.

• At age 18 is established before and after school club within school.
• Duties included managing teams of 4 to meet needs and managing of before and after school clubs.
• Handling money for fees. Ensuring all monetary contributions are accounted for and correct against billing.
• Ensure staff to child ratios are correct, to ensure safe working practices and to meet Ofsted welfare requirements.
• Communicate effectively with parents.
• Dealing with challenging situations such as complaints and appraisals.
• Producing monthly news, letters, letters to parents, questionnaires, designing posters, and daily registers.
• Setting out activities and carrying out activities and keeping room and toy cupboards clean and tidy.
• Provide healthy snacks for children. considering special dietary needs.
• Ordered and restocked age-appropriate resources and mealtime requirements.
• Handled all aspects of case management including child protection, safeguarding, and care program planning and implementation.
• Coordinated schedules of activities, events, and field trips.
• Maintained and reinforced positive behavioural expectations.
• Carry out general day-to-day duties to ensure smooth-running business.

• Developed basic understanding of Birth to Three Matters framework and its application.
• Safeguarded children in line with company's code of conduct.
• Obtained first aid certificate and worked to maximise health and safety in various settings.
• Supported group leader to facilitate engaging activity sessions for groups of 12 children.
• Built positive, professional relationships with children and family members, providing safe, trusting care environment.
• Demonstrated strong values by role-modelling positive behaviour to young children.
• Utilised skills in behaviour management to aid positive, productive nursery environments for optimal child development.
• Acted as positive role model to children, carers, and colleagues, consistently upholding companies values.
• Assisted team to prepare food for children's meal and snack times.
• Carried out day-to-day nursery tasks such as supporting will meal times and toileting. planning and preparing activities. To maintain smooth-running nursery.