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Early Years Apprentice

1 month ago

Reading, Reading, United Kingdom Bright Horizons Full time

Bright Horizons Inglewood Day Nursery and Preschool

Hours: Full time / Permanent / Mon-Fri / 40 hours

Salary: £ £23,795 per annum)

Location: Reading, Berkshire

We'd love to hear from you if you're passionate about caring for children and contributing to their learning and development. Don't worry if you don't feel as if you hit all the points mentioned below – remember everyone has to start somewhere and we'd love to support you in your development here at Bright Horizons

Why Bright Horizons?

We care for over 10,000 children across the UK, across our portfolio of over 300 nurseries, 98% of which are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. We're on a mission to change the future for children, families, and the people we work with, and are committed to progressive working values like flexibility, work-life balance, and wellbeing.

What you'll be doing

  • Working as part of a nursery team looking after babies and children up to the age of 5.
  • Having daily adventures with our children through interactive play, activities, reading and helping them with their curious minds through the learning curriculum
  • Communicating with parents daily on their child's activities
  • Provide a caring and supporting environment where the children feel safe and looked after
  • Creating play and learning opportunities that support the children's learning
  • Promote and ensure child welfare, protection, health and safety and safeguarding procedures and policies are followed at all times
  • Working alongside your Assessor, including attending all training required for completion of your formal qualification
  • Having the ability to manage own time to complete required coursework in the given timeframe
  • Driving own development through the active participation in appraisals, one-to-ones, and requesting supervisions where required
  • Reflecting and proactively utilising new ideas and initiatives, including feedback, to enhance development and learning

What we can offer you

Our benefits include, but are not limited to;

  • £10.42 per hour (£21,794)
  • Career development opportunities across our network of nurseries
  • Amazing discounts, ranging from childcare to high-street, to utility and days out
  • Quarterly Employee Appreciation Weeks – with treats for all the team
  • External helpline with professional counsellors – supporting your wellbeing 24 hours a day.
  • Access to our extensive library of training and qualifications, to support your continuous development

What we're looking for

  • Commitment to completing your Apprenticeship
  • Maths and English qualification GCSE Grade C / Level 4 or above, or Functional Skills Level 2. If not already held, a willingness to complete Functional Skills alongside apprenticeship.
  • Previous experience working with children beneficial, but not essential - Nursery Bank Staff, Nursery Assistant, Teaching Assistant, Nursery Practitioner, Early Years Educator, Nanny, Childminder or similar.
  • Passion for making learning fun and engaging for each child
  • Ability to build trust and strong working relationships with both colleagues and parents
  • Ability to use a variety of techniques to clearly and successfully communicate with both children and adults

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

We look forward to receiving your application

If you experience any problems, please email and we will be happy to help.

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