Role: Ref 10988 - Early Years Apprentice
Location: Braintree, Essex
Salary: £15,747 per annum
Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Full Time - 40 hours per week (18 months to complete apprenticeship)
Closing date: Midnight on 3rd April 2025
Benefits:
* 25 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
* 60% discount on childcare within our nurseries and clubs
* Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
* Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
* Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
* Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers' discounts
About Spring
Spring offers award-winning childcare services, as part of the national charity Action for Children. 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 focused on enabling young people to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright, engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team. Join us and you can look forward to:
* A kind, caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing, both physical and mental.
* Flexible working - wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
* Lots of opportunities for training, learning, development, including gaining qualifications.
* Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.
About the nursery
Spring Carousel is a 49-place nursery that offers affordable, high-quality childcare in Braintree, Essex for children from 0-months to 5-years. At Spring Carousel, the team ensure children feel happy and settled, offering a huge variety of activities, opportunities to grow and socialise.
What you'll be doing
In the role of Early Years Apprentice, you'll be:
* Working alongside nursery practitioners in supporting children's development, participating, planning and setting up activities for a range of children. Developing successful relationships with children and their families.
* Observing and tracking children's development and sharing 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
Our successful candidate will have an enthusiastic and pro-active mindset with a positive attitude and have the ability to form strong and supportive relationships with parents, children and the team. Our Job Description outlines the requirements of the role, but the 'must haves' are:
* 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.
The Training
You will be completing an Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship. The expected duration of this course is 18 months. On successful completion of your apprenticeship, you will be awarded:
* Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship
* Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid OR Level 3 Award Emergency Paediatric First Aid
* Apprentices will achieve an EYE qualification which has been approved to count towards the EYFS level 3 child: staff ratios
Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Spring Oscars we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.
Male staff are often under-represented within this sector, and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.
We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
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