Apprentice Nursery Assistant
TINY ROBINS DAY NURSERY LTD
NOTTINGHAM (NG7 2EB)
Closes on Monday 9 June 2025
Posted on 2 May 2025
Contents
Summary
A fantastic opportunity to work in a busy day nursery whilst having the opportunity to become a qualified Early Years Educator by completing an apprenticeship. Throughout your apprenticeship you will benefit from having the support of a lovely team and a great working environment.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 09:30 - 18:00.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 16 June 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Ensure children are within a safe and caring environment, under close staff supervision.
- Assist staff to ensure children’s individual care plans and routines are met.
- Provide and support stimulating activities to enhance children’s
development. - Interact positively with children, parents, visitors, and other staff members.
Where you'll work
443 DERBY ROAD
NOTTINGHAM
NG7 2EB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
ACCESS TRAINING (EAST MIDLANDS) LTD
Your training course
Early years educator (level 3)
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What you'll learn
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
- Apprentices will be allocated a Trainer Assessor and training will be planned and delivered in conjunction with the employer to meet
the individual needs of the apprentice. - The apprentice will spend 20% of their working hours in off the job
activities and training. - On the job and off the job training will be delivered in the
workplace.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 9 - 4 or A-C)
- Maths (grade 9 - 4 or A-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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
Tiny Robins Day Nursery are an Ofsted rated good provider of childcare from six week to five-year-olds. Tiny Robins believe each child is a unique individual with special talents that we will harness and develop in a safe, secure, caring, and compassionate, developmentally appropriate environment.
After this apprenticeship
Upon completion of the apprenticeship progression to Level 3 Early
Years Educator is possible (if candidate does EYP L2) and the
potential to continue your career at Tiny Robins.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ACCESS TRAINING (EAST MIDLANDS) LTD
Cameron Murrin-Spencer
cameron.murrin-spencer@atem.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318611.
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Closes on Monday 9 June 2025
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