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About this apprenticeship
As a childcare apprentice, 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 careadhere 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
Training
This apprenticeship will provide you with the opportunity to learn how to provide outstanding early years care and education. By the end of your apprenticeship with us you will gain:
A level 3 Early Years Educator qualification, there will be an online assessment during our shortlisting stage to ensure a level 3 apprenticeship is suitable for you
Appropriate functional skills qualifications in maths and English, if you do not already have equivalent qualifications in these subjects when you commence your apprenticeship
A paediatric first aid qualification
Our early years apprenticeship offers you:
The opportunity to gain valuable, practical childcare experience, working with children aged 0-5 years in a nursery setting
'Off-the-job' learning time within your working week, which will support your studies
A childcare trainer/assessor from our in-house EduBase Training Academy of Excellence, who will visit you at the nursery on a regular basis to guide and direct you
Group training sessions, with other apprentices from across our partnership, held at our EduBase Academy in Newport Pagnell (there are 11 sessions as part of the level 3 course)
A permanent contract subject to you successfully gaining your qualification, where after completion you will be appointed as a qualified Nursery Nurse within our partnership
What you could go on to do
A permanent contract subject to you successfully gaining your qualification, where, after completion, you will be appointed as a qualified Nursery Nurse within our partnership
Longer term, as a Level 3 Early Years Educator, you will be able to progress into roles such as Team Leader, Deputy Manager and Nursery Manager
During your apprenticeship with us, you will benefit from:
23 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy and sell days
Fully paid enhanced DBS check
Complimentary breakfast, lunch and refreshments when you are at work
Occupational health service
£1000 ‘recommend a friend’ bonus if you successfully refer someone to come and work for us
Cycle to work scheme
Annual staff conference and awards event, at which individual and team achievements are recognised
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