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Do you have a talent for working with children and interested in turning that into a Career?
The apprenticeship will award you a level 3 Early Years Educator and the opportunity to work directly with children up to 5 years old. The course opportunity is based at Acorn Nursery and run by Next Steps Training.
About The Role
Acorn Nursery is one of Brighton and Hove City Council's Family Hub Nurseries. We pride ourselves on plenty of space to play and learn both indoors and outdoor. Each room has its own separate outdoor space with access to the main large garden where children join together to climb and slide, play in the mud kitchen, enjoy the sandpit and tend to our vegetable patches or check that the worms are doing their job in our compost bins. We have a play based approach to learning in a fun, happy and calm atmosphere.
We are proud of our staff team, many who have been at Acorn for over 20 years. The team are qualified to level 3 or above or working towards a higher qualifications. Together the team share the same passion for delivering a high standard of care to the children and provide exciting opportunities for the children to learn, grow and develop into confident young people.
Fixed term: 24 Month contract as part of the Apprenticeship scheme.
Interviews: TBC in April
There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Becky Mounter (Nursery Manager) on 01273293980 or email us at acornnursery@brighton-hove.gov.uk
The apprenticeship has core Skills Knowledge and Behaviours that you will be expected to learn and apply during your working day at Acorn Nursery. Next Steps Training will allocate a personal tutor that will work with you and your manager at Acorn Nursery to support you through the apprenticeship. At the end of the training period the apprentice will have an end point assessment.
You will receive additional support from a nominated mentor, throughout the duration of the apprenticeship.
Applicant must have:
- Standard of education to include a minimum of GCSE Maths and English Grades A-D
- Participate effectively within a team environment.
- Demonstrate a flexible approach to duties and work on own initiative.
- Excellent literacy skills with an ability to work accurately and pay attention to detail.
- Ability to keep information confidential and to work in a data sensitive environment, under the guidance of managers.
- Ability to be a good team player, to work flexibly within a team, supporting colleagues in training and development and to adjust to changing priorities.
- Good communication skills with the ability to be proactive within a constantly changing environment.
Apprentices will gain knowledge in:
- The expected patterns of children's development from birth to 5 years, and have an understanding of further development from age 5 to 7.
- The significance of attachment and how to promote it effectively.
- A range of underpinning theories and philosophical approaches to how children learn and develop, and their influence on practice.
- How children's learning and development can be affected by their stage of development and individual circumstances such as moving school, birth of a sibling, family breakdown and adoption and care
- The importance of promoting diversity, equality and inclusion, fully reflecting cultural differences and family circumstances.
- The importance to children's holistic development of: - speech, language and communication - personal, social and emotional development - physical development
- Systematic synthetic phonics in the teaching of reading, and a range of strategies for developing early literacy and mathematics.
- The potential effects of, and how to prepare and support children through, transitions and significant events in their lives.
- The current early education curriculum requirements such as the Early Years Foundation Stage.
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We will provide:
- Paid days holiday every year plus bank holidays
- a full induction and training programme
- encouragement and support to further your education and continued professional development
- Generous pension scheme
- loans available to support with bus travel, or buying a bike and deposit loans for rental properties, these are paid back straight from your salary.
- staff discount scheme that can be used in local shops/cafes as well as national stores, including discounted cinema tickets, and discounted gift cards
- ongoing support in the form of regular supervisions and appraisals
- the opportunity to work as part of a dedicated team
- a setting that is child and family centred, not for profit.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Why work for us?
As a council, we want to:
- be connected
- be confident
- be innovative and creative
- be diverse and inclusive
- be healthy and psychologically safe
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.
How to apply
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you've submitted your application and at interview.
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As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
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We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.
We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.
All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants' responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
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