Lisa Barnett

Main duties:

• Provide safe, high-quality care and education for early years children.
• Fulfil legal and statutory requirements.
• Lead and manage staff on a day-to-day basis.
• Contribute to and implement early years policies.
• Ensure that all statutory, legal and setting obligations are followed and met.
• Take responsibility for drawing up long-term, medium term and sessional curriculum plans, to monitor the effectiveness of the setting's curriculum, including working with other professionals and outside agencies.
• Have an appropriate action plan in place which enables the setting to achieve and maintain a minimum good Ofsted rating at the next inspection.
• Taking responsibility for ensuring that performance management systems are in place and followed e.g., induction programme, probation, supervision meetings, staff meetings, appraisals identifying staff training needs.
• Working with the parent committee in all aspects of the overall running of the setting.
• Liase with the local authority, Ofsted and other professionals as necessary to ensure that all legal and statutory requirements are implemented and provide reports as required.
• Manage the preschool budget, along with the committee treasurer, petty cash system, and ensuring that any systems for income, including funding, private fees, outcome and invoicing are followed.
• Taking responsibility for monitoring the quality of teaching.
• Role-modelled desired behaviours, habits and actions.
• Promoting and supporting children's learning, communication and language, personal, social and emotional, and physical development.
• Identifying, and maintaining records of safeguarding concerns, children's allergies, dietary requirements and medications administered.
• Supervise groups of up to 30 children.
• Develop positive, trusting relationships with both the children, parents/ carers.
• Created and maintained a welcoming, warm and safe space to promote children's development.

Safeguarding duties:

• Promote the welfare of all children, staff, students, volunteers and parents/carers.
• Reporting any safeguarding concerns about children to children's services.
• Reporting allegations against staff to the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO).
• Keep accurate records of concerns, issues, and referrals.
• Keep meticulous records and resources for further staff training.
• Ensure all staff and committee are safeguard trained and have access to and knowledge of the safeguarding policies and procedures.

• Oversaw daily operations to reach financial targets, keep within budget, organise and promote fundraising events.
• Certified the setting met relevant legal and regulatory requirements, for example submittance of the annual report to the charities commission.
• Drafted and submitted reports during committee meetings.
• Developed strong relationships with the setting management team, and stakeholders to establish trust, rapport and reliability.
• Served as an official representative of the setting to the public at fundraising events.
• Worked with stakeholders to establish objectives and decisively lead operations.
• Recruited and managed senior staff along with the setting manager.
• Established a strong rapport with stakeholders to enhance the settings well known family orientated, community reputation.
• Maintained organisational compliance with applicable legislation and regulations.
• Established budgets based on historical, current and forecasted business data., along with the committee treasurer.
• Partnered with management team to optimise operations and reduce costs.