Summary
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.
What you will do at work
- 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
Training
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.
Requirements and skills
Skills
- Communication skills
- Creative
- Customer care skills
- Initiative
- Logical
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
Qualifications
- GCSE None required (None required) – desired
About this employer
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. Their experienced and highly qualified staff ensure that every day is fun, interesting, and rewarding at Shanklin Day Nursery.
After this apprenticeship
As with any apprenticeship opportunity – if you prove yourself to be a valuable member of the team there is a strong chance of a permanent post within the business.