**Apprentice**

**Location: Yarm**

**Contract/Hours: Fixed Term/Full Time, 40 hours per week**

**Salary: £11, 012.60 per annum**

**Closing Date: Midnight 28th November 2023**

**Interviews to be held on **Monday 4**th**, December 2023**

**Benefits**: Annual leave of 25 days public holidays, childcare vouchers, blue light discount, maternity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, and much more. For more information check out our career's portal.

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**About Spring**

We are proud to be part of the Action for Children family, a national children's charity and our success in Spring makes a difference. With over 150 years of experience in caring for children and young people, we are an award-winning quality and ethical provider. Any profit we make is aligned to support vulnerable children and young people in need across the UK, through the work of Action for Children. We believe all children deserve the best early start in life. It's our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK, that is accessible to all. We are looking to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright and engaging settings.

At Spring Nurseries, we are passionate about your career, our Apprentices have progressed to Early Years Assistants once they complete their qualification and are now taking the next step to becoming Practitioner's with us. You will have a Mentor as well as your learning provider Assessor to work with you throughout your training and on to the next steps. It's exciting stuff, are you ready to join?

**In the role of Apprentice, you will be.**
- Working alongside nursery practitioners in supporting children's development, participating, and setting activities for a range of children.
- Developing successful relationships with children and their families.
- Observing and track children's development and share this with parent/carers and other professionals.
- Supporting children during mealtimes and toilet training.
- Attending monthly staff meetings and 6 monthly parents/carers evenings.
- Completing an apprenticeship to gain your childcare qualification, working within the setting to support the completion of your coursework and studies.

**What we need from you**:

- A genuine interest in childcare & a true passion for children
- Patience, a friendly manner, and the ability to communicate with children, young people, colleagues and other adults such as parents and carers.
- A commitment to study time to help you achieve your qualification.
- A desire to complete your apprenticeship and become a valued member of our team.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to understand and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.

Good luck We can't wait to hear from you.

**Diversity, Equality and Inclusion**

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

**Don't meet every single requirement?**

**Application Process**

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration - please refer to the JD and Person Specification when applying.

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.

**Talent Pool**: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if you'd rather we didn't do that.

We'll be happy to give you any support you require.

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