Nursery Apprentice

**Hours: 30 hours per week**

**Monday to Friday**

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 Play 2 Learn

**Why Play 2 Learn?**

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
- 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;
- Career development opportunities
- Be part of an amazing, super friendly team, who treat one another like family
- External helpline with professional counsellors - supporting your wellbeing 24 hours a day.
- Access to our extensive training, to support your continuous development

**What we’re looking for**
- Commitment to completing your Apprenticeship
- Previous experience working with children beneficial, but not essential.
- 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

**Benefits**:

- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

School type:

- Day nursery
- Preschool

**Experience**:

- Childcare: 1 year (preferred, not essential)

Work Location: In person

Pay: Up to £10,920.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Childcare
- Company events
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person