Apprentice Nursery Nurse - Bradwell Common, Milton Keynes - Level 3

CHILDBASE PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

Milton Keynes, MK13 8RD

Closes on Sunday 2 March

Posted on 3 January 2025

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Summary

Would you like to join a company that has topped the UK ‘Best Companies to Work For’ lists for 15 years, as well as been rated ‘World Class’ for its respect and support of colleagues, and ‘Climate Positive’ for its environmental achievements? We have an opportunity for an Apprentice Nursery Nurse to join us at our Hampstead Gate Day Nursery.

Annual wage
£16,136.25 a year

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We are offering a pay rate of £6.55 per hour. After 6 months in post, the pay rate will increase to £10.00

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Varied shifts between the hours of 7.15am - 6.30pm, Monday - Friday.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Possible start date

Monday 3 March

Duration

1 year 6 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

As an Apprentice Nursery Nurse you will play a key role in ensuring that young children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. 

Your main responsibilities will be to: 

  • Work as part of a team to create and maintain safe and supportive learning environments across the nursery, plan and implement opportunities to enhance children’s development, and complete observations linked to the early years curriculum 
  • Interact positively with all nursery users and work in partnership with colleagues and parents to ensure all children’s individual needs are met at all times whilst they are in your care 
    adhere to nursery routines and policies and to seek guidance from your leadership team as required 
  • Successfully manage your time to ensure you submit your coursework by the deadlines set by your assessor/tutor 

Where you’ll work

1 Eelbrook Avenue

Bradwell Common

Milton Keynes

MK13 8RD

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

CHILDBASE PARTNERSHIP 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.
  • 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

  • We are offering the Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification
  • The apprenticeship will last 18 months
  • You will have time each week to complete some of your coursework in your working hours and the rest you will complete at home
  • You will attend monthly training sessions at our Head Office in Newport Pagnell.
  • If you don’t hold GCSEs at grade 4 or above in English and Maths, you will complete Functional Skills qualifications too
  • Paediatric First Aid qualification
  • Your work-based training with our in-house Training Academy will support you to develop an understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), which will enable you to deliver effective opportunities for learning, development and care of children from birth to 5 years old

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • English (grade C/4 or above)
  • Maths (grade C/4 or 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
  • Team working
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this company

Childbase Partnership, delivering childcare excellence since 1989. Rated ‘World Class’ by Best Companies and a European Business Award winner, the employee-owned Childbase Partnership is on a mission to give children the best possible start in life. That means a commitment to continuously redefine excellence in every area of operation from imaginative, state of the art, age-appropriate play and learning spaces in nurseries to the award-winning training programmes for its early years professionals. A top UK workplace for over a decade, every Childbase Partnership colleague is an employee-owner, invested in ensuring that each and every child in their care is happy, confident and ready to realise their full potential.

https://childbasepartnership.com (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

  • Upon completion, you will have the opportunity to apply for Qualified Nursery Nurse roles within our partnership.

When you join our partnership, you will be greatly rewarded with a range of benefits, which include:

  • A ‘congratulations’ payment of £300 once you have successfully completed the level 3 apprenticeship
  • The potential for an annual tax-free dividend payment
  • Recommend a friend bonuses of £1000 every time you successfully refer someone to join our partnership
  • Childcare discount from day one; 75% for your children and/or 40% for your grandchildren
  • Fully-paid enhanced DBS check
  • Complimentary breakfast, lunch and refreshments when you are at work
  • 23 days of annual leave plus bank holidays and there is the option to buy and sell days
  • Annual conference and awards event, at which individual and team achievements are recognised
  • Please note, terms and conditions apply to some of our benefits and financial rewards

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CHILDBASE PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000294390.

Apply now

Closes on Sunday 2 March

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Company’s application instructions

Please apply via the advert on our careers site and our recruitment team will contact you to discuss your application. To satisfy the funding criteria, this role is open to you if you are able to evidence you have the right to work and study in the UK, you have resided here for at least 3 years before the start of the apprenticeship, and you can provide photographic ID in the form of a passport or driving licence.  If you are not able to meet this criteria, your application will be rejected.