Early Years Apprentice

To work as a responsible, motivated team member, provide quality care and education to children, and work in positive partnership with parents and carers.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

· To support and advocate the mission and objectives of Cub, The Modern Nursery.

· To contribute to the curriculum delivery within an allocated room, ensuring that practice and provision meets the statutory requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

· To work as a Key Person to a small group of children; this role includes:

- Building warm, supportive relationships with children based on trust and respect

- Working in positive partnerships with parents and carers, and sharing information promptly and professionally

- The completion of ongoing observations, and accurate assessments of children

- Using these assessments, alongside your knowledge of the child’s interests, to plan stimulating and engaging activities

- Maintaining accurate and informative records relating to the children’s development, and supporting the children to make excellent progress

· To assist the Room Leader in maintaining a safe, organised, accessible, and enabling environment.

· To maintain the health, safety, and security of all children, through a vigilant approach to risk assessment, hygiene, and welfare.

· To follow all nursery policies and procedures.

· To develop a confident knowledge of safeguarding, with a full understanding of policies and procedures, and to act and respond when necessary.

· To take an inclusive approach with regards to special educational needs and disabilities.

 

· To engage positively with visitors and external agencies.

 

· To contribute and engage in the wider development of the nursery, including the Cub Curriculum.

 

· To provide cover in other rooms as required.

 

· To be an effective and supportive team member who communicates professionally with others.

Training:
L2 Early years practitioner Apprenticeship Standard

Training Outcome:

Developing skills to be the best Early Years Practitioner that you can be!

Opportunities for professional development to be agreed at interview.

Employer Description:
Cub is a brand-new nursery group, on a mission to reinvent how early years’ education is provided. Children are taught by a team of passionate, caring educators, within inspirational indoor and outdoor play spaces. Our aim is to provide childcare that meets the needs of the whole family; how, where and when we work looks more different now than ever before; the juggle between work, family, childcare, and everything in between has never been more challenging! Our cubhouses not only provide for children, but for their parents too; parents benefit from a range of concierge services that support family life, as well as facilities that allow them to meet, eat, work and workout.

Working Hours :
Hours per week: 37.5 (agreed at interview)

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