Room Leader-Level 5 Apprenticeship Role

JACK AND JILLS DAY NURSERY LIMITED

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 7HY

Closes in 15 days (Friday 22 November at 11:59pm)

Posted on 5 November 2024

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Summary

An exciting position available for a qualified level 3 practitioner who wants to become a room leader. The successful candidate will complete a level 5 qualification during this employment.

Annual wage
Competitive

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Training course
Early years lead practitioner (level 5)
Hours
Monday to Friday between the hours of 8am to 6pm. No Evening work or weekends.

40 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 2 December

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

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

Job Description: Room leader.

Purpose of post: The room leader is a qualified childcare professional with the responsibility for the day to day running of their room. They perform an important role caring for children, maintaining a high quality, educational stimulating environment, supervising staff, and imparting their knowledge and skills to others. They are creative and reflective leaders able to implement new ideas and use a range of strategies to continually improve practice and support the management team.

Responsible to: Nursery Owner, Nursery Manager.

Responsible for: Team members within the room and supporting the whole staff team alongside the manager.

Where you’ll work

BUNCEFIELD LANE

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD

HP2 7HY

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

EDEN TRAINING SOLUTIONS LIMITED

Your training course

Early years lead practitioner (level 5)

Equal to higher national diploma (HND)

Course contents
  • Analyse and articulate how all children’s individual learning can be affected by their current developmental capabilities, characteristics and individual circumstances taking into account all factors contributing to typical and atypical development.
  • Promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
  • Observe, assess, plan, facilitate and participate in play opportunities which include current curriculum requirements.
  • Ensure plans fully reflect the individual development needs and circumstances of children and actively participate in the provision of consistent care, responding quickly to the needs of the individual child.
  • Provide a dynamic, evolving and enabling environment that reflects the current interests, motivations, and play of individual and groups of children.
  • Encourage all children’s participation, ensuring a sensitive, respectful and effective balance within the adult and child dynamic to facilitate play opportunities.
  • Engage in effective strategies to develop and extend children's learning and thinking, including sustained shared thinking.
  • Support and promote children’s speech, language and communication development and determining and adapting appropriate responses and interventions.
  • Support children to engage in a range of learning contexts such as individual, small groups and larger groups as appropriate for their play and support confidence within social experiences.
  • Ensure staff are deployed effectively to suit and enhance the learning environment, prioritising the safety and wellbeing of all children.
  • Advocate for the child, cultivating professional partnerships with parents/carers and other professionals, presenting their understanding of the child’s journey within multidisciplinary teams to holistically support the child’s individual needs.
  • Demonstrate the importance of the home learning environment, developing an effective and collaborative partnership to enhance opportunities for the child.
  • Make use of formative and summative assessment, tracking children’s progress to plan for future learning possibilities including early interventions based on individual developmental needs.
  • Take responsibility for supporting the key person in articulating children's progress and planning future learning possibilities.
  • Use current and contemporary knowledge, research, theories and approaches to develop, enhance and articulate their own pedagogical approach and practice.
  • Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally to enhance their practice.
  • Plan, carry out and guide appropriate physical care routines for individual children.
  • Promote, model and support children and families to develop a healthy approach to making choices relating to personal care including eating, sleeping and physical activity.
  • Develop, model and implement strategies to support the emotional, psychological, physical and cultural needs of all children within the setting.
  • Identify and act upon own responsibilities in relation to health and safety, prevention and control of infection, carrying out risk assessments and risk management processes in line with policies and procedures.
  • Ensure the security and confidentiality of data, records and information in line with current legislation.
  • Be a leaderful practitioner to support, mentor, coach, train and guide colleagues in a range of settings, providing inspiration and motivation to engage others to develop their practice.
  • Be confident to identify, action and competently challenge issues and undertake difficult conversations where appropriate.
  • Advocate for children through their child centred approach, listening to the voice of the child; ensuring children’s rights, views and wishes are heard, respected and acted upon at all times. Offer appropriate support and influence decisions in the best interests of the child.
  • Competently action and carry out safeguarding procedures, using their professional curiosity, knowledge, insight and understanding.
  • Explore and understand, challenge and question; knowing when to act to safeguard and protect children.
  • Analyse and articulate how all children’s individual learning can be affected by their current developmental capabilities, characteristics and individual circumstances taking into account all factors contributing to typical and atypical development.
  • Promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
  • Observe, assess, plan, facilitate and participate in play opportunities which include current curriculum requirements.
  • Ensure plans fully reflect the individual development needs and circumstances of children and actively participate in the provision of consistent care, responding quickly to the needs of the individual child.
  • Provide a dynamic, evolving and enabling environment that reflects the current interests, motivations, and play of individual and groups of children.
  • Encourage all children’s participation, ensuring a sensitive, respectful and effective balance within the adult and child dynamic to facilitate play opportunities.
  • Engage in effective strategies to develop and extend children's learning and thinking, including sustained shared thinking.
  • Support and promote children’s speech, language and communication development and determining and adapting appropriate responses and interventions.
  • Support children to engage in a range of learning contexts such as individual, small groups and larger groups as appropriate for their play and support confidence within social experiences.
  • Ensure staff are deployed effectively to suit and enhance the learning environment, prioritising the safety and wellbeing of all children.
  • Advocate for the child, cultivating professional partnerships with parents/carers and other professionals, presenting their understanding of the child’s journey within multidisciplinary teams to holistically support the child’s individual needs.
  • Demonstrate the importance of the home learning environment, developing an effective and collaborative partnership to enhance opportunities for the child.
  • Make use of formative and summative assessment, tracking children’s progress to plan for future learning possibilities including early interventions based on individual developmental needs.
  • Take responsibility for supporting the key person in articulating children's progress and planning future learning possibilities.
  • Use current and contemporary knowledge, research, theories and approaches to develop, enhance and articulate their own pedagogical approach and practice.
  • Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally to enhance their practice.
  • Plan, carry out and guide appropriate physical care routines for individual children.
  • Promote, model and support children and families to develop a healthy approach to making choices relating to personal care including eating, sleeping and physical activity.
  • Develop, model and implement strategies to support the emotional, psychological, physical and cultural needs of all children within the setting.
  • Identify and act upon own responsibilities in relation to health and safety, prevention and control of infection, carrying out risk assessments and risk management processes in line with policies and procedures.
  • Ensure the security and confidentiality of data, records and information in line with current legislation.
  • Be a leaderful practitioner to support, mentor, coach, train and guide colleagues in a range of settings, providing inspiration and motivation to engage others to develop their practice.
  • Be confident to identify, action and competently challenge issues and undertake difficult conversations where appropriate.
  • Advocate for children through their child centred approach, listening to the voice of the child; ensuring children’s rights, views and wishes are heard, respected and acted upon at all times. Offer appropriate support and influence decisions in the best interests of the child.
  • Competently action and carry out safeguarding procedures, using their professional curiosity, knowledge, insight and understanding.
  • Explore and understand, challenge and question; knowing when to act to safeguard and protect children.

    • Your training plan

    The successful candidate will complete a level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner qualification.

    Training will be delivered on a hybrid model with online sessions, face to face visits.

    More training information

    Full schedule of the level 5 course will be discussed in detail with the manager, skills coach and learner.

    Requirements

    Essential qualifications

    Other in:

    • Childcare Level 3 (grade 3)
    • English/Maths (grade 4 And Above)

    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
    • IT skills
    • Attention to detail
    • Organisation skills
    • Customer care skills
    • Problem solving skills
    • Presentation skills
    • Administrative skills
    • Number skills
    • Analytical skills
    • Logical
    • Team working
    • Creative
    • Initiative
    • Non judgemental
    • Patience

    Other requirements

    Key Tasks and responsibilities: Unit Lead • To manage the team expressing what is expected of them daily. • Working as part of a team and using your initiative and imagination to generate new ideas • Using your excellent communication skills to build strong relationships with parents, children and welcome visitors to the Nursery • Planning, implementing and evaluating a curriculum appropriate to age and individual needs of the children ensuring the room layout supports these aims • provision to have a clear understanding of each child’s key strengths and areas for development • To ensure the smooth running of the room throughout each day, in accordance with their routines. • To support and cover staff to make sure all paperwork, observations, Blossom and art books are up to date • To ensure each room is safe for the children to explore, ensuring that the 7 areas of learning are covered, and resources changed regularly, alongside display boards • To ensure any room check feedback is carried out efficiently. • To liaise with the manager daily giving feedback • To check the observations and assessments that are being carried out on children are effective and covering their individual needs. • To oversee all EYFS planning and paperwork making sure that it is all completed daily/weekly/termly • Tracking the children’s development at the end of each term. Identifying any gaps in development • To observe staff whilst carrying out the role as a child career and give any positive/negative feedback • To work in partnership with all parents, ensuring we have evidence of this in conjunction with the EYFS • To carry out staff training when needed • To help create a positive and safe environment for the children to flourish and explore • To help maintain excellent teamwork sharing thoughts feelings and ideas • To ensure that safeguarding requirements are met at all times and ensuring that all individual needs of the children are being met • To help maintain good partnership with parents ensuring all their views are taking into consideration throughout the nursery. • Attend nursery management meetings if needed and feed any information back to your team • Implement and carry out the Early years Foundation Stage, introducing topics and activities based on the individual children’s needs and interests. Working in conjunction with other staff members • Support all team members to conduct and end of nursery review (unique summary/transition sheet) of each key child to send/take to school to allow the new • Undertake appropriate supervision meetings/processes for all members in your team in conjunction with the nursery management approach • Give feedback for appraisals/probation reviews/supervisions • Support team members to seek out any training or support they may require to fulfil their role and responsibilities •

    About this company

    elcome To Jack & Jills Day Nursery Jack and Jills day nursery is a privately owned day nursery based within the outskirts of Maylands Business Park in Hemel Hempstead. We are lucky to be in a quiet location with lovely surroundings, with access to J8 of the M1 in less than 2 minutes. We benefit from an extensive garden and ample parking. We pride ourselves as a welcoming and friendly nursery with a highly qualified staff team caring for children aged 6 weeks to 8 years.

    After this apprenticeship

    Management Roles such as deputy, assistant and manager will potentially become available for the successful candidate.

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    EDEN TRAINING SOLUTIONS LIMITED

    Mr Matthew Travis

    matthewtravis@eden-ts.com

    01709886838

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000285585.

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    Closes in 15 days (Friday 22 November at 11:59pm)

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