Assistant Playworker Apprentice
Jam After School Club
Dunmow, Sawbridgeworth
Closes in 16 days (Friday 30 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 13 May 2025
Contents
Summary
Assist with day-to-day activities of the club, provide quality play care within the framework of the club’s, policies and procedures.
- Wage
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£11,385.40 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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Hours are term time only, salary based on these hours.
- Training course
- Early years practitioner (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday – 7.30am to 9am – 3pm to 6pm
Tuesday - 7.30am to 9am – 3pm to 6pm
Wednesday - 7.30am to 9am – 3pm to 6pm
Thursday - 7.30am to 9am – 3pm to 6pm
Friday -7.30am to 9am – 3pm to 6pm.
28 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 16 June 2025
- Duration
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1 year 1 month
- 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
- Assist with planning, preparing and delivering quality play opportunities within a safe and caring environment
- Providing comprehensive care for the children, including collecting them from school and delivering them safely to the club
- Setting up the play space, including moving furniture and play equipment
- Providing refreshments and ensuring that hygiene, health and safety standards are met
- Administering first aid when necessary
- Consulting with children and involving them in planning activities.
- Helping with club administration, where necessary
- Encouraging parental involvement in the club
- Facilitating good communication with all members of the organisation, parents, and schools
- Undertaking appropriate and relevant training
- Keeping the work environment healthy, safe and secure
- Working within the framework of the club’s policies and procedures
Where you'll work
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Rodings Primary School, Dunmow Road, Leaden Roding, Dunmow, CM6 1PZ
- West Road, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 0BL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE
Your training course
Early years practitioner (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Support babies and young children through a range of transitions.e.g moving onto school, moving house or the birth of a sibling
- Recognise when a child is in danger, at risk of serious harm or abuse and explain the procedures to be followed to protect them. Types of abuse including: domestic, neglect , physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
- Identify risks and hazards in the work setting and during off site visits.relating to both children and staff
- Demonstrate skills and understanding for the prevention and control of infection, including hand washing, food preparation and hygiene, dealing with spillages safely, safe disposal of waste, using correct personal protective equipment.
- Use equipment, furniture and materials safely, following the manufacturers’ instructions and setting’s requirements.
- Encourage children to be aware of personal safety and the safety of others and develop personal hygiene practices (including oral hygiene).
- Promote health and wellbeing in settings by encouraging babies and young children to consume healthy and balanced meals, snacks and drinks appropriate for their age and be physically active through planned and spontaneous activity throughout the day, both indoors and outdoors.
- Carry out respectful care routines appropriate to the development, stage, dignity and needs of the child, including eating (feeding and weaning/complimentary feeding), nappy changing procedures, potty/toilet training, care of skin, teeth and hair and rest and sleep provision.
- Communicate with all children in ways that will be understood, including verbal and non-verbal communication.
- Extend children’s development and learning through verbal and non-verbal communication.
- Encourage babies and young children to use a range of communication methods.
- Use a range of communication methods to exchange information with children and adults.
- Work with colleagues to identify and plan enabling environments, activities (both indoors and outdoors), play opportunities and educational programmes (both adult led and child initiated) to support children’s holistic development through a range of play, creativity, social development and learning.
- Implement and review activities to support children’s play, creativity, social development and learning and clear up after activities.
- Observe children, assess, plan and record the outcomes, sharing results accurately and confidentially in line with expected statutory framework and setting’s requirements.
- Use learning activities to support early language development.
- Support children’s early interest and development in mark making, writing, reading and being read to.
- Support children’s interest and development in mathematical learning including numbers, number patterns, counting, sorting and matching.
- Support the assessment, planning, implementation and reviewing (the graduated approach) of each baby’s and young child's individual plan for their care and participation.
- Work in ways that value and respect the developmental needs and stages of babies and children.
- Use feedback, mentoring and/or supervision to identify and support areas for development, goals and career opportunities.
- Work co-operatively with colleagues, other professionals and agencies to meet the needs of babies and young children and enable them to progress.
- Work alongside parents and/or carers and recognise their role in the baby’s/child’s health, well-being, learning and development.
- Encourage parents and/or carers to take an active role in the baby’s/child’s care, play, learning and development.
- Demonstrate how to share information with parents/carers about the importance of healthy balanced diets, looking after teeth and being physically active.
- Support babies and young children through a range of transitions.e.g moving onto school, moving house or the birth of a sibling
- Recognise when a child is in danger, at risk of serious harm or abuse and explain the procedures to be followed to protect them. Types of abuse including: domestic, neglect , physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
- Identify risks and hazards in the work setting and during off site visits.relating to both children and staff
- Demonstrate skills and understanding for the prevention and control of infection, including hand washing, food preparation and hygiene, dealing with spillages safely, safe disposal of waste, using correct personal protective equipment.
- Use equipment, furniture and materials safely, following the manufacturers’ instructions and setting’s requirements.
- Encourage children to be aware of personal safety and the safety of others and develop personal hygiene practices (including oral hygiene).
- Promote health and wellbeing in settings by encouraging babies and young children to consume healthy and balanced meals, snacks and drinks appropriate for their age and be physically active through planned and spontaneous activity throughout the day, both indoors and outdoors.
- Carry out respectful care routines appropriate to the development, stage, dignity and needs of the child, including eating (feeding and weaning/complimentary feeding), nappy changing procedures, potty/toilet training, care of skin, teeth and hair and rest and sleep provision.
- Communicate with all children in ways that will be understood, including verbal and non-verbal communication.
- Extend children’s development and learning through verbal and non-verbal communication.
- Encourage babies and young children to use a range of communication methods.
- Use a range of communication methods to exchange information with children and adults.
- Work with colleagues to identify and plan enabling environments, activities (both indoors and outdoors), play opportunities and educational programmes (both adult led and child initiated) to support children’s holistic development through a range of play, creativity, social development and learning.
- Implement and review activities to support children’s play, creativity, social development and learning and clear up after activities.
- Observe children, assess, plan and record the outcomes, sharing results accurately and confidentially in line with expected statutory framework and setting’s requirements.
- Use learning activities to support early language development.
- Support children’s early interest and development in mark making, writing, reading and being read to.
- Support children’s interest and development in mathematical learning including numbers, number patterns, counting, sorting and matching.
- Support the assessment, planning, implementation and reviewing (the graduated approach) of each baby’s and young child's individual plan for their care and participation.
- Work in ways that value and respect the developmental needs and stages of babies and children.
- Use feedback, mentoring and/or supervision to identify and support areas for development, goals and career opportunities.
- Work co-operatively with colleagues, other professionals and agencies to meet the needs of babies and young children and enable them to progress.
- Work alongside parents and/or carers and recognise their role in the baby’s/child’s health, well-being, learning and development.
- Encourage parents and/or carers to take an active role in the baby’s/child’s care, play, learning and development.
- Demonstrate how to share information with parents/carers about the importance of healthy balanced diets, looking after teeth and being physically active.
Your training plan
Working towards completing Level 2 Early Years Practitioner Apprenticeship Standard. Work based learning with regular teaching session with the Assessor.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 1-9)
- Maths (grade 1-9)
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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Reliable
- Enthusiastic
Other requirements
Flexible working across sites and hours. Early Starts.
About this company
At Jam Childcare we are passionate about providing the highest quality care for children. As mums ourselves, we understand how difficult it is to find quality care for your children when working. After working in childcare for over 10 years before having our own children, we had to leave full time work when they went to school as there were no provisions for out of school care in the area, this led to us starting Jam After School Club in Sawbridgeworth. Our vision is to provide parents with a service where they can fully relax knowing that their children are happy and well cared for, in environments where they feel safe and confident and by people who truly care and appreciate them as individuals. We want to be able to provide a personal service that caters to individual needs which is why we aim to be as flexible and accommodating as possible.
After this apprenticeship
There will be opportunities for progression and a permanent position subject to performance.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE
The Apprenticeship Team
apprenticeship@hrc.ac.uk
01992411572
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000320335.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 30 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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