Nursery Apprentice

Summary

Top Tots Day Nursery are looking to recruit a fun, kind and caring apprentice with a great imagination and willingness to learn for their site at Mountbatten Leisure Centre.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Salary is dependent on age ranging between £7.55 and £8.55 per hour.

Training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Friday. 8 hours per day on varying shifts, between 7.30am and 6.00pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

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

Where you’ll work

ALEXANDRA PARK
TWYFORD AVENUE
PORTSMOUTH
PO2 9QA

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

HAVANT AND SOUTH DOWNS COLLEGE

Your training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.
Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.
Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.
Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.

Your training plan

Learning for this apprenticeship will take place in the workplace with regular support from the Work Based Trainer and the assigned Mentor at the workplace.

More training information

The training will be with Havant and South Downs College through a work based trainer.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4/C)

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths (grade 4/C)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Customer care skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Patience

About this company

Top Tots is a popular day nursery based in Portsmouth, UK. We have several sites throughout the city all with different settings.

https://toptotsdaynursery.uk (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

• Company events • Company pension • Employee discount • Private medical insurance

After this apprenticeship

To gain a full time position within the company.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HAVANT AND SOUTH DOWNS COLLEGE

Liz Langley

liz.langley@hsdc.ac.uk

02393879999

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318328.

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