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An excellent opportunity to work as a nursery assistant at Canopy Children's Nursery
You will receive exceptional support, training and mentoring within the nursery setting and from your skills coach at Juniper Training. You will gain an understanding of policies and procedures and child development and knowledge of EYFS and Canopy curriculum.
Wage: £13,312 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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Training course: Early years practitioner (level 2)
Hours: Monday - Friday on a rota basis to be agreed in advance between 7.30am - 6.00pm. 32 hours a week
Start date: Tuesday 1 September 2026
Duration: 1 year
Positions available: 1
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Key tasks and responsibilities:
- Deliver the highest care and education standards and ensure secure knowledge and understanding of policies and procedures and child development and knowledge of EYFS and Canopy curriculum and regulatory standards
- Ensuring internal policies and procedures and legislation from governing bodies are adhered to and demonstrate your knowledge through high standards of practice
- Deliver and support the Canopy curriculum to ensure a child-centred approach to operating all aspects of the nursery and support the observation and planning process meets the needs of all children in line with the Quality Assurance Framework
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication with all stakeholders of the nursery and wider Canopy community including parent’s professionals and colleagues
- Ensure keeping health and safety policies and procedures and continuously and demonstrate behaviours that underpin a high performing safety culture
- Working as part of the team to ensure all essential day to day tasks are completed in line with the demands of the area you are working within i.e., hygiene standards and room preparation
- Understand the referral processes when necessary to engage with professionals to support a child referral
- Attend staff meetings and training to ensure a continuation of personal professional development to ensure your knowledge and skills are up to date, full, and relevant to the role
Where you'll work
The Four Crosses
Holyhead Road
Bicton
Shrewsbury
SY3 8EF
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Early years practitioner (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- 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.
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Training schedule
- Level 2 Early Years Practitioner Apprenticeship Standard
- Functional Skills in English and maths, if required
- End Point Assessment
- Work based learning
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- GCSE English and Maths (grade D-3 or Level 1 FS)
Desirable qualifications
- GCSE in:
- GCSE English and Maths (grade A*-C/9-4 or Level 2 FS)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Experience of working children
- Caring and compassionate
Other requirements
Are you able to travel to the nursery within the advertised working hours?
At Canopy we are on a mission to give children the best possible beginnings and help bring more harmony into parents’ busy lives. Offering a supportive, nurturing day care service that’s tailored around each family. https://canopynurseries.co.uk/our-nurseries/shrewsbury/ (opens in new tab)
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Canopy Children's Day Nursery will offer further development and progression whenever possible.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
Diane Jones
diane.jones@junipertraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000045266.
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