Apprentice Early Years Practitioner

Duties and Responsibilities:

To understand and respect the need for consistency of care for the children - report for duty on time To assist in providing a safe, supportive and caring environment for young children in the care of Pre School Playhouse; to ensure that all aspects of each individual child’s development are given full consideration To ensure that clean and hygienic standards are maintained at all times. This includes daily cleaning rotas, nappy changing and other nursery/housekeeping duties (i.e. laundry/bedding) To maintain and follow all Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times To develop a thorough knowledge of all of the company’s operational policies and procedures; ensuring that they are followed and respected at all times To be fully up to date with the requirements of the “Early Years Foundation Stage” and ensure that your practice meets and aims to exceed the requirements To be proactive in the process of activity planning, child observation and development records on a regular basis and as requested by your supervisor and Nursery Manager To follow all routines, duties, timetables, rotas, record keeping activities and any other reasonable duty as requested by your supervisor or Nursery Manager To ensure that communication with children, parents and the staff team is polite and courteous at all times To be an effective key person to those children assigned to you and to take on other assigned responsibilities, as requested and advised by your supervisor in line with knowledge and experience To maintain confidentiality about all issues related to children and their families; personal and other staff members issues and any other management or operational issues Involvement and enrolment in company training courses to be undertaken and completed which may, at various times, be outside normal working hours To attend all mandatory training sessions and workshops (as advised by your manager) To attend staff meetings, professional development training and any other events as requested by your Nursery Manager To carry out any other reasonable additional duties as requested by your supervisor and/or Nursery Manager from time to time

Training:

Example: Apprentices will be required to attend college at least x1 day per week either at Uxbridge, Harrow or Hayes Campus completing necessary mandatory training and units associated with the apprenticeship.

The apprentice will be required to complete:

Work towards gaining a full Qualification Employment Rights and Responsibilities Skills, Knowledge, and Behaviours Standard and End Point Assessment Functional Skills in English, maths, and ICT (if required)

Other training will be provided by the employer as required to enable the fulfilment of the job role.

Training Outcome:

Job opportunity upon successful completion of apprenticeship.

Employer Description:
We are a nursery and preparatory school for babies and children aged one to seven years, with an emphasis on high quality care and development. You need to be passionate about working with children in a setting where listening and communication skills are paramount

Working Hours :
Monday - Friday, working hours TBC

Skills:
Communication skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Team working,Initiative,Patience