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Childcare Apprenticeship Level 3
Working in a childcare setting with children ranging from ages 0 - 5. You will be working towards an Advanced Diploma Early Years. Your apprenticeship will last for 13 months. This apprenticeship requires dedication, commitment and punctuality for you to be successful.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Responsibilities
- Working in a childcare setting with children ranging from ages 0-5
- Completing a variety of day-to-day childcare tasks to ensure that children’s needs, welfare and education are catered for. This can can include helping children to learn numeracy and language skills through games, taking part in singing, role-playing and storytelling and more
- Liaising with external customers and parents, to provide a high level of service for the childcare setting
- Meeting the care needs of the individual child, such as feeding, changing nappies and administration of medicine
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Requirements
- GCSE or equivalent Maths and English (grade 4/C L2)
- Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Benefits
- Developing into a Level 3 practitioner, with the potential of a position upon successful completion.
- Other prospects could include applying for:
- Room Leader positions
- Possible management training
- Springboard into Primary Education
- Paediatric nursing
- Continuous development in the current nursery setting
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About Leapfrog Day Nursery
Leapfrog Day Nursery are open 51 weeks a year. They follow the ethos of "One big Family". They have two dedicated childcare settings based in East and West Croydon.
https://www.leapfrogdaynursery.com/
Application Process
Closes in 24 days (Sunday 14 June 2026 at 11:59pm) Sign in or create an account
Contact
SWIFT ACI Beth Donnelly BethD@swiftcc.co.uk +442034753041 Reference code: VAC2000003320.
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