Job Description
Apprentice Early Year’s Educator
As an Apprentice Early Years Educator, you will be responsible for supporting your fellow Educators to deliver all aspects of our award-winning service including facilitating purposeful learning opportunities, meeting each child’s individual needs and ensuring our high standards are maintained in all areas of your nursery setting. Alongside this, you will be training towards your ICQ Level 2 or ICQ Level 3 Diploma in Children’s Learning and Development (Early Years Educator), through the Cherubs Nurseries Academy. This will include a range of on the job learning including coursework, practical assessment and regular meetings with your Assessor.
Remember, this job description is just a guide. If you see something you can’t tick off then we’ll support you to learn, develop and grow. Also, we want to make our recruitment process as accessible as possible - so please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments making.
Description of Duties
Deliver: Deliver an amazing service, for both our children and families
- Work as part of the Childcare Team to provide an amazing service, for both our children and families.
- Ensure the children’s environment and your nursery is kept safe, secure and clean at all times ensuring safeguarding policies are adhered to.
- Be a role model for the children at all times, whilst demonstrating best practice to your colleagues.
- Ensure all toys, equipment and furniture is kept clean and in good working order, sterilising toys when necessary or required by policy.
- Assist in the supervision of meal times, ensuring this remains a learning opportunity for the children where positive eating practices are learnt and developed.
- Give parents and carers a warm welcome and concise handover at the end of the day.
- Ensure you are up to date and compliant with all Cherubs Nurseries policies and procedures.
Take Ownership: Take ownership in everything, always being honest and transparent
- Ensure paperwork is completed correctly, accurately and on-time.
- Complete Blossom for all your key children, ensuring you meet targets and provide detailed and relevant accounts for each child, underpinned by the EYFS.
- Take pride in your room and nursery, ensuring it is presented well with organised resources, engaging displays with an inviting layout.
Commit: Commit to continuous improvement, always strive to be and do the best
- Present yourself in a professional manner at all times, always “dressed for service”.
- Ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times both inside and outside of the workplace.
- Work towards your qualification in childcare, ensuring all targets are met and you are always up to date with any assigned coursework.
- Attend both in-house and external training, as required. Some of this may be outside of working hours, for example on a weekend.
- Complete all PLA training that is relevant to your role, ensuring this is completed within 7-days of issue.
Embrace: Embrace creativity and innovation – these are what keep our service fresh unique and inspiring.
- Assist in the thorough planning and successful delivery of a variety of activities (both indoor and outdoor) to maintain the children’s interests and to ensure the development of all children in-line with their own needs.
Build: Build a positive and progressive team environment where everyone is united and able to shine.
- Work under the direction of your Nursery Manager, Assistant Nursery Manager and Senior Early Years Educators – absorbing their knowledge and experience to enhance your own.
- Ensure any information you receive is shared with the relevant people and in a timely manner.
- Establish and maintain friendly but professional relationships with all parents, staff and suppliers.
- Attend all staff events including parents evening, staff meetings and summer fairs, some of these may be out of hours and on weekends.
- Undertake any other duties which may reasonably be regarded as within the nature of your duties.
Your Qualifications and Experience
- GCSE Level Pass (4 or above) in both English and Maths. However, these are not essential as
you can complete these as Functional Skills, as part of your qualification
- Experience of caring for children, such as baby sitting
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract, Apprenticeship
Contract length: 18 months
Salary: £5.28 per hour
Benefits:
- Company events
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Wellness programme
Flexible Language Requirement:
Schedule:
School type:
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Apprentice Early Years Educator - Mapperley