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A Fantastic Opportunity at N Family Day Nursery Whetstone
They are looking for an Apprentice Nursery Practitioner to join their ‘outstanding’ setting, to fit well within their friendly team and learn skills on the job whilst supporting children’s play, learning and development.
What Will You Be Doing Day to Day?
As an Apprentice Nursery Practitioner, you will have the opportunity to rotate around the nursery rooms and forest school, gaining hands-on experience in all areas of their nurseries. This, coupled with your apprentice training in early years, will equip you with all the skills, experience, and qualification to apply to progress into a qualified educator role with them. This Apprenticeship will be for a level 3 early years educator, but they may consider a level 2 early years practitioner depending on experience. From there, you can develop your career at N Family, opting for a managerial route, or pursuing a specialism in an area that excites you. This role is for multiple positions due to the growth of the business.
The role is a full-time position (40 hour working week, 20% of which is spent on learning).
Day to day you will learn to:
- Support your team in the delivery of basic childcare routines
- Be responsible for the delivery of their 'learning through play’ educational ethos
- Innovate with activities and constantly challenging your children’s learning and development
- Build and maintain excellent relationships with parents
- Promote child welfare and ensure safeguarding procedures are followed
What Can We Offer You?
- £19,656 for Level 2 early years practitioner or £20,717 for Level 3 early years educator
- Funding of your apprenticeship
- You’ll be part of N Academy which could put you on track for an EY degree once your apprenticeship is complete
- Performance related bonus of up to £750 per year (once working within ratio)
- Up to 32 days holiday a year (including bank holidays, 1 day off for your birthday and 3 days during Christmas and New Year) to start (rises with length of service)
- Free daily lunch and drinks
- Personal development fund of £100 per year
- Professional development, specialisms, coaching and mentoring through their N Academy
- Annual clothing allowance of £100 (no uniform)
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Shared Parental leave pay for all team members after 2 years continuous service with N Family
- 5 days full sick pay and, depending on individual circumstances, they may offer up to 5 days discretionary leave
- Paid training including 2 inset days per year
- Childcare discount of 10%, rising to 25% when you become a Nursery Manager
- Emergency childcare: 6 back-up childcare days in any of their nurseries
There's more:
- Round the world trip and 2 weeks additional holiday for 5 years’ service
- Refer a friend bonus of £500 (plus other incentives) for existing and ex-employees
- Amazing wellbeing benefits including one wellbeing week per term, Headspace premium membership, free counselling, 10% Class Pass membership discount, hardship fund
- Season pass loan and cycle to work scheme
To Become an Apprentice, You Must:
- Be 16 or over
- Not already be in full-time education
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As an apprentice, you’ll:
- Have regular one to one sessions with a dedicated trainer either remotely or through visits to your workplace
192 Merton Road
London
SW19 1EG
Training Details
Training Provider
BABCOCK SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING LIMITED
Training Course
Early years educator (level 3)
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What You'll Learn
- Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
- Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
- Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
- Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
- Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
- Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
- Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
- Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
- Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
- Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
- Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
- Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
- Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
- Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
- Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
- Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.
- Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
- Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
- Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
- Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
- Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.
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Apprenticeship standards are aimed at developing skills within the Apprentice’s chosen career route. Each standard has set knowledge, skills and behaviours required to be successful within the job role. This will include the completion of functional skills in Maths and English. Once the apprentice has completed a minimum of 12 months training and the employer and Inspiro regional trainer confirm they have met all the requirements of the standard, they will be put through to end point assessment. The end point assessment is independent from the training and includes a variety of assessment methods which test the skills and knowledge of the apprentice to ensure they are fully competent in their role. Each Apprentice will be supported throughout the apprenticeship by a structured programme of teaching, e-learning, face-to-face training and workplace mentoring, this will encourage and help them to meet the requirements of the new standards and will prepare them for the end of point assessment. Whilst on an apprenticeship, an apprentice is entitled to an TOTUM - The #1 UK student discount card and app. https://totum.com/
About N Family Club
★ 4.5 Glassdoor rating and N.1 highest quality, Outstanding nursery group in the UK Ofsted leaderboard! Would you like to join a fast growing nursery group with outstanding progression opportunities? They started with one nursery in 2017 and now have 20, and growing! Are you passionate about inspiring and developing the next generation to reach their full potential in this ever-changing world? At N Family Club, they’re rethinking careers in early years and challenging the way things are done in the sector. They empower you to reach your potential by supporting you with a mix of development initiatives and an unparalleled learning environment through their very own N Academy. They offer industry leading salaries, a refreshed approach to flexibility to ensure you have a positive work-life balance and a second-to-none benefit package. https://nfamilyclub.com/nursery (opens in new tab)
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab). This vacancy is for a permanent position within N Family Whetstone nursery upon the successful completion of the apprenticeship programme.
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BABCOCK SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING LIMITED
Debbie Pennington
debbie.pennington@inspirolearning.co.uk
0116 504 0275
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000050131.
Closes on Monday 28 September 2026
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