Apprentice Pre-School Practitioner

3 weeks ago


Aberystwyth Ceredigion, United Kingdom Rydal Penrhos School Full time

Job Description

Role Title: Apprentice Pre-School Practitioner

Reports to: Pre-School Manager

Pay Grade: National Minimum Wage

Hours of work: 37 per week, term time only (with protected time for study/course work each week)

Purpose of the Job Role (Job Statement):

To assist the Pre-School staff, as part of a professional team, in working with children on their educational and social development and provide a high quality of care.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Adhere to the statutory Early Years Outcome Framework, ESTYN and CIW regulations
  • Adhere to the school’s code of conduct
  • Under the direction and supervision of qualified staff, assist in the delivery of activities enhancing children’s educational and social development
  • Assist in setting up and clearing away of activities, including ensuring that the materials and equipment are safe and clean
  • Attend to children’s personal needs including assisting the children at meal times
  • Assist other staff with the assessment procedures to ensure children’s progress is satisfactory
  • Keep records of your key children’s development and learning journeys
  • Exchange information with parents/carers as requested by the Pre-School Manager

Indicative knowledge, skills and experience:

Experience and Skills

  • Experience of working with children (minimum one year)
  • Hold a relevant and recognised Level 2 qualification
  • Hold a recent Paediatric First Aid Certificate
  • Good communication and writing skills
  • Ability to build and maintain partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met

Safeguarding:

  • To have due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and to follow the child protection procedures adopted by Rydal Penrhos School as outlined in the school’s Safeguarding Policy
  • To assist staff in the day to day implementation of the school Visitor Policy
  • To carry out designated school fire evacuation role and adhere to fire evacuation procedure in the event of a fire and during a fire drill
  • To adhere to the school’s Health and Safety Policy and procedure

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of disclosure and barring service check to be undertaken. Therefore, should you be shortlisted, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders 1974 (Exemptions) (Amendments) Order 1986. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the School. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

‘The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects

all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection

screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers the Disclosure and Barring Service and a Social Media check’

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