Apprentice Nursery Practitioner

To be a fun, kind and caring apprentice with a great imagination and willingness to learn.

Main responsibilities:
To deliver a high standard of learning, development and the care for the children aged 0-5 years.
- To ensure that the nursery is a safe environment for the children, staff, and others.
- To be developing partnerships with parents and carers to increase involvement in their child’s development to be responsible for any task delegated by the room leader or management.
- To complete all academic aspects of the apprenticeship.

Main activities:

- To provide a safe caring stimulating educational environment, both indoors and outdoors at all times.
- To deliver an appropriate play based Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum that enables children to make individual progress.
- To help ensure the nursery always meets OFSTED requirements.
- To understand and work to nursery policies and procedures including how to deal with child protection issues appropriately and how to respond to incidents, accidents and complaints and emergencies.
- To plan activities which ensure each child is working towards their next steps.
- To be a key person to the children.
- To ensure records are properly maintained for example daily attendance registers, accident forms and risk assessments.
- To liaise closely with the parents and carers, informing them about the nursery and its curriculum exchanging information about the progress and encouraging parents’ involvement.
- to undertake any other reasonable duties as directed, in accordance with the nursery aims and objectives.

**Salary**: £5.30-£6.30 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount
- Life insurance

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

School type:

- Day nursery

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Ability to Commute:

- Southsea (required)

Work Location: In person