Early Years Apprentice

Shanklin Day Nursery; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run childcare center in the East Midlands is offering an exciting apprenticeship opportunity for individuals looking to support the care and education of young children. You'll work in a friendly team, providing a safe, stimulating environment and delivering a play-based curriculum. Ideal candidates will possess good communication skills and minimum GCSEs in Maths and English. The position provides a salary of £7.75 per hour for 40 hours per week, with opportunities for professional development and training.

Responsibilities

• Provide a safe, caring, stimulating educational environment.
• Deliver an appropriate play-based Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.
• Maintain records such as daily attendance register and incident reports.
• Liaise with parents about children's progress.
• Plan activities towards early learning outcomes.

Skills

Communication & team working

Logical, organisation & initiative

Creativity

Problem solving

Non-judgemental & patience

Education

Minimum GRADE 4/C in GCSE or equivalent Maths & English

Job description

WHO are Shanklin Day Nursery?

Shanklin Day Nursery and Pre-school in Stoneygate, Leicester is a small, family run day nursery. They have been established since 1994 and provide a loving, stimulating and educational environment for children aged 0-5 years.

Our experienced and highly qualified staff ensure that every day is fun, interesting, and rewarding at Shanklin Day Nursery.

WHAT will I get from working with Shanklin Day Nursery?

EARN: £7.75 per hour, 40 hours per week.

EXPERIENCE- your hours: Monday to Friday shifts between 7.30am and 6pm.

QUALIFICATION: Early Years Educator Level 3 takes approximately 18 months.

WHAT will my DAY look like?

This is an exciting opportunity for you to kick-start your career in childcare. You will be joining a friendly team and supporting with the care and education of young children. Your daily tasks will include:

• Providing a safe, caring, stimulating educational environment.
• Delivering an appropriate play based Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum that enables children to make individual progress.
• Helping to ensure the preschool nursery meets Ofsted requirements at all times.
• Understanding and working to preschool nursery policies and procedures, including how to deal with child protection issues appropriately and how to respond to incidents, accidents, complaints, and emergencies.
• Planning activities which ensure each child is working towards the early learning outcomes.
• Ensuring records are properly maintained, e.g., daily attendance register, accident and incident book, risk assessments.
• Liaising closely with parents/carers, informing them about the nursery and its curriculum, exchanging information about children’s progress and encouraging parents’ involvement.
• Working in partnership with senior management to update and review the self-evaluation and improvement plan.
• Undertaking any other reasonable duties as directed, in accordance with the preschool aims and objectives.
• Minimum of 6 hours per week spent on apprenticeship work and training.

HOW does the Apprenticeship work?

Working towards your Early Years Educator Level 3 Qualification, you’ll attend monthly 1-2-1 meetings (online via teams every month – NO classroom OR college!) with your tutor and learn about modules including risk management, key person & attachment, learning & development, and more! You will be given a minimum of 3 hours per week to complete any apprenticeship work (assignments, research, and projects) and will receive at least another 3 hours of training from your employer. All apprenticeship work and training is completed in the workplace, during working hours.

WHAT skills/qualifications do I NEED?

• Minimum GRADE 4/C in GCSE (or equivalent) Maths & English
• UK Residency – must have lived in the UK for at least 3 years
• Communication & team working.
• Logical, organisation & initiative.
• Creativity, problem solving, non-judgemental & patience.

What happens next?

If your application is successful, you will receive a call to discuss the qualification, location and course length in more detail. Following this call, you will be asked to complete an English and Maths assessment through CT SKILLS, our apprenticeship provider.

If you really want to impress us, why not show your enthusiasm and carry out some further research on the qualification you’ll be working towards! Links are provided below:

About the Qualification: https://www.ctskills.co.uk/apprenticeship-courses/childcare/