Staff

Heading up the City and Little City team is Links Nurseries’ most experienced Nursery Manager, Cara Ross, who has been in post for five years now and formerly served as one of our Deputy Managers, having been with the nursery since 2014. Cara is joined on the management team by Sarah Keenan, Deputy Manager at our Little City building, who has been with us over 20 years, serving 13 of those on the management team, and Becky Halliday, Deputy Manager of 2 years at our City building.  Cara and her team are supported by Links Nurseries’ very experienced Area Manager, Jenny Shearer, and owner and Director Mairi McCrae, as well as Links business team in Edinburgh, comprising Accounts Manager, Iwona Barnat, and Business Support Manager, Liz Salvin.

The nursery also has the benefit of the expertise of trained primary school teacher Lyndsey Colls, who works peripatetically for all three of our nurseries as our Education and Learning Officer.

We have a dedicated and professionally qualified staff team, all of whom are registered with the Scottish Social Services Council or the General Teaching Council and are PVG registered under the Disclosure Scotland scheme. Most of our staff are fully qualified in childcare or we are supporting them to work towards an SVQ Social Services (Children and Young People) SCQF Level 7 or equivalent with an appropriate external training agency.

Staff also engage in continuous professional development which we support and facilitate through providing in-house after hours training sessions or workshops, external training courses, or via online learning modules.