Level 3 Early Years Educator in a Nursery – Apprentice Nursery Assistant

An exciting opportunity to continue your career in childcare with Parenta Training, working in an early year setting. Become an apprentice in one of our fun and friendly nurseries, working with children aged from birth to five years, gaining experience while you learn.

Requirements

• GCSE in: English (grade Pass)
• GCSE in: Maths (grade Pass)
• GCSE in: Early Years Practitioner (grade Pass)
• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Number skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Patience
• Ability to reliably travel to and from the employer location daily
• Willingness to undergo a check of police records (e.g., a DBS) and subscribe to the DBS Update Service

Responsibilities

• Working with children between the ages of 0-5 years, organising activities, and being proactive with help and care within the early years teaching sector
• Assisting and meeting the personal/emotional needs of individual children, including nappy changing, feeding, caring, and establishing relationships
• Providing care and support to children under supervision, ensuring participation in day-to-day learning and play activities
• Ensuring the setting is safe, clean, and well-presented
• Collaborating with colleagues to ensure high standards of work in a positive manner
• Contributing to a high-quality caring environment by creating a warm, friendly, and stimulating atmosphere for children's emotional, social, and educational development
• Attending team meetings and contributing relevant ideas
• Understanding and implementing the setting’s confidentiality policy
• Contributing towards an effective and supportive team environment
• Undertaking the role and responsibilities of a key person
• Providing sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years
• Advocating for all children’s needs, including those requiring SEND or EAL support
• Promoting and facilitating children’s interpersonal communication to develop social interactions and relationships
• Supporting children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture
• Supporting children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours
• Assessing the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences
• Creating inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments, both indoors and outdoors
• Creating an inclusive and supportive emotional environment where children feel safe, secure, respected, and experience wellbeing, maintaining the individual child’s voice
• Applying strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events
• Analysing observation evidence to assess and plan individual learning based on the child’s needs and interests
• Facilitating and supporting child-centred opportunities and experiences
• Providing adult-led opportunities and experiences
• Using reflection to develop professionally and personally
• Recognising when a child or colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and acting to protect them
• Applying legislation, policy, and procedure to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of children (e.g., food safety, diets, allergies, COSHH, accidents, injuries, emergencies)
• Applying the principles of risk assessment and risk management
• Teaching children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others' safety
• Using a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet individual child needs
• Developing and maintaining effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the child's education and care