Assistant Playworker Apprentice
Jam After School Club
Dunmow, Sawbridgeworth
Closes in 9 days (Friday 22 August 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 8 September 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
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
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.
Training provider
HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE
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 and significant events. 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 provision and during off site visits relating to both children and staff and visitors and follow reporting procedures.
- Use prevention and control of infection techniques for hand washing and food preparation and hygiene, deal with spillages safely, safe disposal of waste, using correct personal protective equipment.
- Use equipment, furniture and materials safely and securely, following the manufacturers’ instructions and provision’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 the provision by encouraging babies and young children to consume healthy, balanced and nutritious 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 or complementary feeding), nappy changing procedures, potty or toilet training, care of skin, teeth and hair and rest and sleep provision.
- Communicate with all children, including those for whom English is an additional language and those with additional needs, in ways that will be understood. This includes 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 appropriate communication methods to share information with children, parents or carers and other professionals.
- Work with colleagues to identify and plan educational programmes 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, share results accurately and confidentially in line with expected statutory and the provision’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 graduated approach for the assessment, planning, implementation and reviewing 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 and mentoring 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 or carers and recognise their role in the baby or child’s health, well-being, learning and development.
- Encourage parents or carers to take an active role in the baby's or child’s care, play, learning and development.
- Demonstrate how to share information with parents or carers about the importance of healthy, balanced and nutritious diets for their child, looking after teeth and being physically active.
- Support babies and young children through a range of transitions and significant events. 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 provision and during off site visits relating to both children and staff and visitors and follow reporting procedures.
- Use prevention and control of infection techniques for hand washing and food preparation and hygiene, deal with spillages safely, safe disposal of waste, using correct personal protective equipment.
- Use equipment, furniture and materials safely and securely, following the manufacturers’ instructions and provision’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 the provision by encouraging babies and young children to consume healthy, balanced and nutritious 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 or complementary feeding), nappy changing procedures, potty or toilet training, care of skin, teeth and hair and rest and sleep provision.
- Communicate with all children, including those for whom English is an additional language and those with additional needs, in ways that will be understood. This includes 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 appropriate communication methods to share information with children, parents or carers and other professionals.
- Work with colleagues to identify and plan educational programmes 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, share results accurately and confidentially in line with expected statutory and the provision’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 graduated approach for the assessment, planning, implementation and reviewing 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 and mentoring 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 or carers and recognise their role in the baby or child’s health, well-being, learning and development.
- Encourage parents or carers to take an active role in the baby's or child’s care, play, learning and development.
- Demonstrate how to share information with parents or carers about the importance of healthy, balanced and nutritious diets for their child, looking after teeth and being physically active.
Training schedule
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)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted 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 employer
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 9 days (Friday 22 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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