Apprentice Nursery Practitioner

- To act as a key person as appropriate.

- Promote good health and take positive action to prevent the spread of infections, ensuring policies are in place to deal effectively with accidents and illness.

- Promote equality and diversity, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practices and opportunities.

- To support the identification and development of appropriate opportunities for special and individual needs appropriate to learning, behaviour and disabilities and in line with SEN code of practice.

- Assist the Room Lead to develop and maintain an appropriate child discipline procedures, which is applied consistently by all adults within the nursery.

- Encourage independence, development confidence and self-esteem.

- Plan, develop and review play activities, utilising appropriate resources to increase learning opportunities, which build on language and numeracy development, use of imagination and creativity.

- Develop positive social relationships, within peer and older groups and family settings.

- Maintain high expectations of children’s achievements, encouraging value and respect and developing listening techniques in children and staff.

- Enable routine opportunities for relaxation.

- Provide opportunities that enable children to work towards the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum, planned and delivered by the Nursery team.

- Assist the Lead Practitioner to promote child welfare and develop partnership with parents and family and other related parties.

- To liaise with colleagues when finishing a shift, advising them of any information that is to be relayed to the parents when the child is collected from nursery.

Training:
Once a week delivered at the City College Norwich, Ipswich Road Campus.  Learning alongside working with the employer.

Training Outcome:

There is future potential to continue working as a level 3 practitioner with Orchidale- we have a wide range of training opportunities available such as forest school practitioner, SEN, higher level training such as EYTS.

Employer Description:
At Orchidale, we treat children as individuals, recognising each child’s unique learning style and interests. Our flexible curriculum is child-led, inspiring, creative and meaningful, our team highly qualified and experienced. We are passionate about learning and are determined to give our children the best opportunities possible. Our home-from-home rooms and family ethos ensure children feel safe, secure and valued. In such a warm, nurturing environment, children are happy, confident and ready to learn. We tailor make each child’s learning to suit their needs, and therefore we soon see their independence and love of learning grow. Our nursery is a loving and stimulating community where children are encouraged to respect one another, as well as the world around them.

Working Hours :
30 hours per week varied shift patterns.

Skills:
Communication skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Customer care skills,Problem solving skills,Presentation skills,Number skills,Team working,Creative,Initiative,Non judgemental,Patience