Nursery Apprentice

Summary

A fantastic opportunity to grow your career in early years and get to work with children every day. The nursery is located on a working farm, meaning our children have access to a whole farm and all the adventures that it is able to bring them! You will be supporting the team with planning and delivering varied activities with the children.

Annual wage: £13,312 a year
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Training course: Early years educator (level 3)
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Shifts to be confirmed at offer stage.
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 11 November
Duration: 1 year 3 months
Positions available: 2

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery provides a nurturing home-from-home environment, for children aged 3 months through to preschool age. They are looking for an Early Years Educator Apprentice to join the team.

Duties include;
- supporting with care of children eg. Mealtimes, changing nappies
- supporting with observations
- planning and carrying out activities

Benefits

20 days holiday
Bank holidays paid
1 week off at Christmas
Part uniform paid
Extra day holiday for birthday
Paid summer and Christmas events
Several training courses where required from our in house training company,
Inset days for staff training

Where you’ll work

Church Farm, Astwick Road,

Stotfold

UK

SG18 8WB

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED

Your training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.

Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).

Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.

Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.

Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.

Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.

Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.

Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.

Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.

Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.

Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.

Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.

Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.

Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.

Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.

Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.

Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.

Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.

Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.

Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.

Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.

Your training plan

Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery will provide you with all of the on-the-job training you need to up-skill in your role, and your 20% off-the-job learning will be incorporated as part of your working day. You will be working towards the Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, which includes:

• Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
• Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
• Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid or Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid
• Level 2 Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)

This will be delivered through Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery's dedicated training provider, Realise.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

Basic Maths (grade n/a)
Standard English (grade n/a)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Organisation skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

Onsite parking, limited public transport links, DBS and references required

About this company

Our setting is built in a newly refurbished barn which is located in a beautiful countryside in the hamlet of Astwick, right next door to the historic church of St Guthlac. It is an area of both historic and natural beauty where regular outings are arranged so children can freely explore nature to aid their learning and awareness of their surroundings.

After this apprenticeship

Opportunities for the right candidate to specialise in different areas e.g. Outdoor learning & forest school; opportunities for promotion once qualified.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000281445.

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Closes in 4 days (Wednesday 30 October)

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