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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 is catered for. You will also liaise with external customers and parents to provide a high level of service for the childcare setting.
Requirements
- GCSE in Maths & English (grade C/4 or above) or Functional Skills in Maths & English (grade Level 2)
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical thinking
- Team working ability
- Creativity
- Initiative
- Non-judgemental attitude
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Ability to update online portfolio in a timely manner to meet deadlines
- Apprenticeship is 14-months in duration
- Working in a nursery setting full time, minimum 30-hrs a week
- Attending online group classroom sessions 1 day a week for the first 8 weeks
Responsibilities
- Create a fun, engaging, and safe environment for children
- Teach within the EYFS requirements
- Participate in a range of indoor and outdoor activities
- Support children with self-care needs such as feeding and personal hygiene
- Communicate with other team members and parents
- Recognise when a child or 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 (e.g., food safety, diets, allergies, COSHH, accidents, injuries, emergencies)
- Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management in 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 a 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 those requiring 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 an 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 experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy
- Use reflection to develop professionally and personally
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Benefits
- Wage: £12,480 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age (National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices)
- Early years educator (level 3) qualification
- Potential for a position as a Level 3 practitioner upon successful completion
- Potential for further opportunities including: Room leader positions, management training, springboard into primary education, paediatric nursing, and continuous development in the current nursery setting.
- Paediatric first aid qualification
Application Process
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- To apply, please contact Stuart Beer at LEAPING MAN LEARNING LIMITED.
- Email: sb@swiftcc.co.cc
- Phone: 07875009366
- Reference Code: VAC2000039619
- Closes: Saturday 29 August 2026
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About Kiddy Care Nursery
Kiddy Care Nursery is an ideal childcare provision which caters for children learners to make a start in to the educational world. We help children attain all the necessary skills for them to make a good and secure start in full-time education. We welcome children from all ethnicities and diversity. We ensure that children become confident, creative, and have a positive outlook. We provide an enriched environment to support their learning and inquisitive nature. Children often need their learning to be scaffolded by a significant other and therefore we have qualified staff who use the key person system to their advantage to monitor the progress children are making and to build good strong relationships with the parents. Alongside this, we take into consideration some key theorists who influence our education systems today. At Kiddy Care Nursery, we follow a robust recruitment policy which allows us to choose the most suitable person to work with us. We take matters of safeguarding seriously and ensure that all the children in our care are safe and healthy. We have a cook on-site who helps us provide healthy meals throughout the day. Throughout the year, we arrange various trips to selected museums, theme parks, farms, libraries, holy sanctuaries, and other topic-related places. We also have some special days where Zoo Lab comes in with their pets to show the children how to care for them. Children also have a special book in which we gather evidence of their work and progress. We also enjoy giving home learning for some fun time at home. We are also a 'Good' Ofsted rating.
Contact
- Training Provider: LEAPING MAN LEARNING LIMITED
- Contact Person: Stuart Beer
- Email: sb@swiftcc.co.uk
- Phone: 07875009366
- Reference Code: VAC2000039619
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