Apprentice Nursery Practitioner

**Position: Early Year Practitioner in Childcare and Education - BABY ROOM**

This position is for someone who is looking to work in childcare, while training and studying for either a Level 2 or Level 3 in Early Years.
- At Little Acorns we are looking for someone to be able to meet the below points. _

1. To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children placed in the setting.

2. To give support to other members of staff within the setting.

3. To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn.

4. To build and maintain strong partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met.

5. To have experience working with babies from 6 months-2 years old, the position is for the baby room, children range from birth - 2 years old.

6. To have the safety, welfare and happiness of the children within the setting as your top priority.

**Main Duties of Nursery Practitioner**:

- To effectively deliver the EYFS ensuring that the individual needs and interests of children in the setting are met (in conjunction with other team members)
- To keep records of your key children’s development and learning journeys and share with parents, carers and other key adults in the child’s life.
- To be a good team member.
- To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs.
- To ensure the provision of a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children having an awareness of any disabilities, family cultures and medical histories.
- To advise manager/deputy of any concerns, e.g., over children, parents, the safety of the environment, preserving confidentiality as necessary.
- To be involved in out of working hours activities, e.g., training, monthly staff meetings, summer events etc
- To be flexible within working practices of the setting, undertaking other responsible duties where needed, such as domestic tasks, preparation of snack meals, cleansing of equipment, etc.
- To work alongside the manager and staff team to a high standard.
- To read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures relevant to your role and the safe running of the setting.
- To develop your role within the team, especially with regard to being a key person
- To keep completely confidential any information regarding the children, their families or other staff that is acquired as part of the job.
- To be aware of the high profile of the setting and to uphold its standards at all times, both in work hours and outside.
- To support nursery assistants, students and volunteers.
- To ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times.
- To undertake and lead on additional responsibilities such as SENCO, training co-ordinator, safeguarding Officer etc

**Position hours**:Monday - Thursday, 0800 -1500 (may be 16:00pm on some days)

**Apprenticeship Details**

**Little Acorns Childcare 2020 Ltd provided the following inclusive hiring information**:
We are an all-year-round nursey; we close for one week over Christmas. We are a small nursery with a small team, we are very lucky to have very hard-working staff who strive to be the best they possibly can.

We have a 3-phase interview procedure in place, this is to make sure you are happy, and us at Little Acorns feel you will be an asset to our team.

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU HAVE ALREADY APPLIED FOR PREVIOUS POSTS.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £4.81-£9.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- No weekends