Placing trust in staff to take ownership of their own rooms has proved successful in attracting and retaining staff at Under One Roof (U1R) Thanet, a 118-place nursery in Kent.
Owner Sophie Spurrier, a former teacher, admits it has been quite easy to recruit staff for the setting, even before it officially opened a year and a half ago.
She believes prospective employees are attracted to the setting’s supportive workplace culture where everyone helps out and gets stuck in, and the fact that staff are trusted to make decisions without having to get approval from her first.
‘Some of my older staff that have worked here for a year or so have said they’ve never known another nursery like it. They say they’ve never been allowed to do anything to their room and/or without permission from a manager in previous settings,’ she explains.
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