Job Description

Tiny Tinkers Childminders

Tiny Tinkers Childminders are looking for a caring, committed, and personable individual who will support their nursery to deliver an exceptional standard of childcare and education within a safe, home-based environment. You will receive excellent support and training as you work towards your Level 2 Early Years Practitioner Apprenticeship.

What you'll do at work

• Preparing the learning environment

  • Setting up play areas, organizing resources, and ensuring classrooms, toys, and learning materials are ready before children arrive.

• Welcoming families

  • Greeting parents and children, supporting smooth drop-off routines, taking attendance, and noting any daily instructions from guardians.

• Supporting planned activities

  • Assisting with arts, crafts, music, storytelling, and other structured sessions that promote early language, creativity, and motor skill development.

• Supervising outdoor play

  • Monitoring children closely on outdoor equipment, encouraging safe exploration, and maintaining a secure play environment.

• Promoting social development

  • Helping children learn to share, cooperate, take turns, and resolve minor conflicts calmly and respectfully.

• Guiding small groups

  • Supporting small groups during independent play or simple structured learning activities, ensuring engagement and inclusion.

• Assisting at mealtimes

  • Helping younger children feed themselves, encouraging healthy eating habits, and maintaining a calm, positive mealtime routine.

• Nappy changing and toileting support

  • Providing safe, respectful care during nappy changes and supporting children with toilet training in line with safeguarding and hygiene standards.

• Promoting good hygiene

  • Encouraging regular handwashing, especially before meals and after outdoor play, and modelling good hygiene practices.

• Supporting rest and nap times

  • Setting up sleep mats or cots, helping children settle, and maintaining a calm environment during scheduled rest periods.

• Maintaining cleanliness and safety

  • Disinfecting toys, tables, and high-use equipment throughout the day, and completing end-of-day cleaning tasks such as sweeping, vacuuming, sorting resources, and preparing the room for the next session.

Where you'll work

2 WINDERMERE CRESCENT
DERRIFORD
PLYMOUTH
PL6 5HX

Training provider

ACHIEVEMENT TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Early years practitioner (level 2)

What you'll learn

• Support babies and young children through a range of transitions and significant events. e.g. moving onto school, moving house or the birth of a sibling.
• Recognise when a child is in danger, at risk of serious harm or abuse and explain the procedures to be followed to protect them. Types of abuse including: domestic, neglect, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
• Identify risks and hazards in the provision and during off-site visits relating to both children and staff and visitors and follow reporting procedures.
• Use prevention and control of infection techniques for hand washing and food preparation and hygiene, deal with spillages safely, safe disposal of waste, using correct personal protective equipment.
• Use equipment, furniture, and materials safely and securely, following the manufacturers’ instructions and provision’s requirements.
• Encourage children to be aware of personal safety and the safety of others and develop personal hygiene practices (including oral hygiene).
• Promote health and wellbeing in the provision by encouraging babies and young children to consume healthy, balanced and nutritious meals, snacks, and drinks appropriate for their age and be physically active through planned and spontaneous activity throughout the day, both indoors and outdoors.
• Carry out respectful care routines appropriate to the development, stage, dignity, and needs of the child, including eating (feeding and weaning or complementary feeding), nappy changing procedures, potty or toilet training, care of skin, teeth, and hair, and rest and sleep provision.
• Communicate with all children, including those for whom English is an additional language and those with additional needs, in ways that will be understood. This includes verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Extend children’s development and learning through verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Encourage babies and young children to use a range of communication methods.
• Use a range of appropriate communication methods to share information with children, parents or carers, and other professionals.
• Work with colleagues to identify and plan educational programmes to support children’s holistic development through a range of play, creativity, social development, and learning.
• Implement and review activities to support children’s play, creativity, social development, and learning and clear up after activities.
• Observe children, assess, plan, and record the outcomes, share results accurately and confidentially in line with expected statutory and the provision’s requirements.
• Use learning activities to support early language development.
• Support children’s early interest and development in mark making, writing, reading, and being read to.
• Support children’s interest and development in mathematical learning including numbers, number patterns, counting, sorting, and matching.
• Support the graduated approach for the assessment, planning, implementation, and reviewing of each baby’s and young child's individual plan for their care and participation.
• Work in ways that value and respect the developmental needs and stages of babies and children.
• Use feedback and mentoring or supervision to identify and support areas for development, goals, and career opportunities.
• Work co-operatively with colleagues, other professionals, and agencies to meet the needs of babies and young children and enable them to progress.
• Work alongside parents or carers and recognise their role in the baby or child’s health, well-being, learning, and development.
• Encourage parents or carers to take an active role in the baby's or child’s care, play, learning, and development.
• Demonstrate how to share information with parents or carers about the importance of healthy, balanced, and nutritious diets for their child, looking after teeth, and being physically active.