Childcare Apprentice
LADYBIRD PRIVATE DAY NURSERIES LTD
Manchester (M30 8AY)
Closes in 19 days (Friday 9 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 April 2025
Contents
Summary
Outstanding opportunity for the right candidate to start their childcare career working for Ladybird Private Day Nursery located in Eccles. Great opportunity to earn whilst you learn and gain an industry recognised qualification.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirmed between 07:30 - 18:30.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 19 May 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
As a Nursery Nurse apprentice, you would work with children from birth to around eleven years of age, helping them to develop and learn. You will create a stimulating learning environment that helps the children grow their interpersonal and academic skills.
Duties to include:
- Plan and evaluate daily activities and ensure all evidence is recorded to extend the child’s learning in line with EYFS Framework
- Interact with children in an age-appropriate manner
- Create fun learning environments both indoors and outdoors
- Encourage language and communication development
- Feedback to parents in a Professional and consistent manner
- Ensure you adhere to all policies, procedures and legislations within your environment
- Ensure that safeguarding the children is core to all our activities
- Work indoors and outdoors
Where you’ll work
99 Parrin Lane
Eccles
Manchester
M30 8AY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
SALFORD CITY COLLEGE
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
- Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship Standard
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Maths & English (grade A - D / 9 - 3)
BTEC in:
- Child Care/HSC OR Relevant Diploma (grade Pass)
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
- Interpersonal skills
- Friendly
- Well mannered
- Well presented
- Confident
About this company
Ladybird Private Day Nurseries are committed to providing high quality childcare and education to the community of Eccles. Our nurseries on New Lane, Peel Green and Parrin Lane, Winton have been developed to the highest standards into warm, caring and homely environments where all children can learn and develop.
After this apprenticeship
- Following successful completion of your level 3 qualification there is a possibility to become a full time member of staff
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SALFORD CITY COLLEGE
apprenticeships@salfordcc.ac.uk
01616315555
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000314466.
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Closes in 19 days (Friday 9 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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