Early Years Level 5 Apprenticeship

1 week ago

Bournemouth, United Kingdom Tops Day Nurseries Full time

**Title**:Early Years Level 5 Apprenticeship

**Responsible to**:Nursery Manager

**Location**:Tops Day Nurseries - Tops Pokesdown

**Hours**:40 hours per week

We are currently looking to recruit a Level 3 Childcare practitioner to join us at Tops Day Nurseries to complete the Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner Apprenticeship whilst working in one of our senior or room manager positions. This is a unique opportunity for an aspiring nursery practitioner to start their journey into early years leadership and management positions.

The fully funded Early Years Lead Practitioner programme will develop your knowledge, skills and behaviours to be proactive and influential, skillfully leading day to day practice at an operational level.

At Tops Day Nurseries we believe in an environmentally sustainable and socially responsible world for all. We aim to achieve this through educating the children of today, so that they in turn can influence the way future generations live.

We are the first children’s nursery chain in the UK to achieve B Corp accreditation, as well receiving UK’s most prestigious business award, the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.

**What you will learn?**:
**Undertaking this apprenticeship will develop your ability to reflect and build on practice through on-going professional enquiry and action research.**:
Learning phases includes:

- Leadership and management
- Child development and theory
- Pedagogy
- Health and wellbeing
- Health and safety
- Equality, diversity, inclusion and SEN
- Safeguarding
- Partnership working

You will learn how to:
***:

- Support and promote children’s early education and development
- Be responsible for supporting the quality of learning and development in their setting
- Engage with sector developments both locally and nationally
- Skilfully lead day-to-day practice at an operational level
- Safeguard and promote the health, safety and welfare of children
- Work in partnership with the key person, colleagues, parents and/or carers or other professionals
- Gain a regulated recognised qualification that can be used to progress onto a Level 6 qualification with Anglia Ruskin University.

**Requirements**:

- Must have GCSE’s in English and Maths at Grade C (4) or above or able to achieve Level 2 English and Maths whilst on programme
- Must have held a residency in the UK for the last three years
- Must have Level 3 Early Years Educator or Equivalent Qualifications / Experience

At Tops we operate flexi work hours, this means you can book bank holidays off if needed or you can work if you want to and take another day off instead.

**Other benefits the company proudly offers all colleagues include**:

- Get PAID while you learn
- 29 days annual holiday entitlement (pro rata)
- Annual Pay Review
- Companywide profit bonus scheme, annually rewarded each May.
- Dental Treatment
- Staff Welfare scheme
- Optical Care
- N.H.S Prescription Charges
- Counselling
- Pay Day Sub
- Bike Scheme
- Colleague Support Fund
- Company Pension
- Up to 60% discount for Childcare within Tops Day Nurseries

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