Early Years Apprentice

About the role

🚀 Early Years Practitioner Role! 🚀

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of young children? Want to join a supportive team and grow your career in childcare? This is your chance! ✨

What you'll be doing:

• Joining in with all the fun of daily care routines for children across all age groups. 🧸
• Helping to create and deliver exciting activities and experiences that children love. 🎉
• Getting to know our families and sharing updates about their children's day using the Famly app. 📱
• Providing a warm, empathetic, and sensitive response to each child's emotional needs. ❤️
• Keeping a watchful eye during indoor and outdoor play, mealtimes, and snack times. 👀
• Teaming up with fellow practitioners to support our daily operations. 🤝
• Greeting parents and carers with a smile as they arrive. 👋
• Contributing your brilliant ideas for new activities and experiences. 💡
• Getting to grips with daily paperwork and understanding its importance. ✍️
• Becoming a pro at our daily routines and helping to set up engaging activities. 🎨
• Starting to take observations and understand how they help us assess children's development. 📊
• Learning to complete basic risk assessments to keep everyone safe. 🛡️
• Confidently chatting with parents and carers, picking up on important information during handovers. 🗣️
• Taking an active role in leading activities and feeling confident in your daily duties. 💪
• Beginning to understand the responsibilities of a Key Person and what it takes to be great at it. 🔑
• Sharing children's daily progress with parents and carers, ensuring safe collection procedures are followed. 👍

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and build a rewarding career in the early years sector! 🌟

Key responsibilities

• Participating in care routines for all age groups
• Participating in activities and experiences for all age groups
• Supporting emotional needs: Responding to individual children with warmth, empathy, and sensitivity
• Supervising play: Overseeing indoor and outdoor activities, free play, and meal or snack times
• Completing observations and understanding how these support Assessments of children

Entry requirements

GCSE in: (English (grade C / 4), Maths (grade C / 4))