Nursery Apprentice

Main responsibilities:

To deliver a high standard of learning, development and the care for the children aged 0-5 years To ensure that the nursery is a safe environment for the children, staff, and others To be developing partnerships with parents and carers to increase involvement in their child’s development To be responsible for any task delegated by the room leader or management To complete all academic aspects of the apprenticeship

Main activities:

To provide a safe caring stimulating educational environment, both indoors and outdoors at all times To deliver an appropriate play based Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum that enables children to make individual progress To help ensure the nursery always meets OFSTED requirements To understand and work to nursery policies and procedures including how to deal with child protection issues appropriately and how to respond to incidents, accidents and complaints and emergencies To plan activities which ensure each child is working towards their next steps To be a key person to the children To ensure records are properly maintained for example daily attendance registers, accident forms and risk assessments To liaise closely with the parents and carers, informing them about the nursery and its curriculum exchanging information about the progress and encouraging parents’ involvement To undertake any other reasonable duties as directed, in accordance with the nursery aims and objectives

Training:

Learning for this apprenticeship will take place in the workplace with regular support from the Work Based Trainer and the assigned Mentor  at the workplace.

Training Outcome:

To gain a full time position within the company.

Employer Description:
Top Tots is a popular day nursery based in Portsmouth, UK. We have several sites throughout the city all with different settings.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday. 8 hours per day on varying shifts, between 7.30am and 6.00pm.

Skills:
Communication skills,Customer care skills,Team working,Creative,Initiative,Patience