Level 5 Early Years Nursery Lead Practitioner Apprentice
INSTEPZ LIMITED
Birmingham (B23 6RH)
Closes in 11 days (Thursday 31 July 2025)
Posted on 29 May 2025
Contents
Summary
If you are an enthusiastic, dedicated, and qualified Level 3 Early Years Nursery Practitioner, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to join the Instepz team and help inspire and educate the next generation!
- Wage
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£14,526.20 to £23,492.04, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Early years lead practitioner (level 5)
- Hours
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37 hours. Monday - Friday between 7.30am - 6pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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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
Where you'll work
24 High Street
Birmingham
B23 6RH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SKERN LODGE LIMITED
Training course
Early years lead practitioner (level 5)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Analyse and articulate how all children’s individual learning can be affected by their current developmental capabilities, characteristics and individual circumstances taking into account all factors contributing to typical and atypical development.
- Promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
- Observe, assess, plan, facilitate and participate in play opportunities which include current curriculum requirements.
- Ensure plans fully reflect the individual development needs and circumstances of children and actively participate in the provision of consistent care, responding quickly to the needs of the individual child.
- Provide a dynamic, evolving and enabling environment that reflects the current interests, motivations, and play of individual and groups of children.
- Encourage all children’s participation, ensuring a sensitive, respectful and effective balance within the adult and child dynamic to facilitate play opportunities.
- Engage in effective strategies to develop and extend children's learning and thinking, including sustained shared thinking.
- Support and promote children’s speech, language and communication development and determining and adapting appropriate responses and interventions.
- Support children to engage in a range of learning contexts such as individual, small groups and larger groups as appropriate for their play and support confidence within social experiences.
- Ensure staff are deployed effectively to suit and enhance the learning environment, prioritising the safety and wellbeing of all children.
- Advocate for the child, cultivating professional partnerships with parents/carers and other professionals, presenting their understanding of the child’s journey within multidisciplinary teams to holistically support the child’s individual needs.
- Demonstrate the importance of the home learning environment, developing an effective and collaborative partnership to enhance opportunities for the child.
- Make use of formative and summative assessment, tracking children’s progress to plan for future learning possibilities including early interventions based on individual developmental needs.
- Take responsibility for supporting the key person in articulating children's progress and planning future learning possibilities.
- Use current and contemporary knowledge, research, theories and approaches to develop, enhance and articulate their own pedagogical approach and practice.
- Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally to enhance their practice.
- Plan, carry out and guide appropriate physical care routines for individual children.
- Promote, model and support children and families to develop a healthy approach to making choices relating to personal care including eating, sleeping and physical activity.
- Develop, model and implement strategies to support the emotional, psychological, physical and cultural needs of all children within the setting.
- Identify and act upon own responsibilities in relation to health and safety, prevention and control of infection, carrying out risk assessments and risk management processes in line with policies and procedures.
- Ensure the security and confidentiality of data, records and information in line with current legislation.
- Be a leaderful practitioner to support, mentor, coach, train and guide colleagues in a range of settings, providing inspiration and motivation to engage others to develop their practice.
- Be confident to identify, action and competently challenge issues and undertake difficult conversations where appropriate.
- Advocate for children through their child centred approach, listening to the voice of the child; ensuring children’s rights, views and wishes are heard, respected and acted upon at all times. Offer appropriate support and influence decisions in the best interests of the child.
- Competently action and carry out safeguarding procedures, using their professional curiosity, knowledge, insight and understanding.
- Explore and understand, challenge and question; knowing when to act to safeguard and protect children.
- Analyse and articulate how all children’s individual learning can be affected by their current developmental capabilities, characteristics and individual circumstances taking into account all factors contributing to typical and atypical development.
- Promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
- Observe, assess, plan, facilitate and participate in play opportunities which include current curriculum requirements.
- Ensure plans fully reflect the individual development needs and circumstances of children and actively participate in the provision of consistent care, responding quickly to the needs of the individual child.
- Provide a dynamic, evolving and enabling environment that reflects the current interests, motivations, and play of individual and groups of children.
- Encourage all children’s participation, ensuring a sensitive, respectful and effective balance within the adult and child dynamic to facilitate play opportunities.
- Engage in effective strategies to develop and extend children's learning and thinking, including sustained shared thinking.
- Support and promote children’s speech, language and communication development and determining and adapting appropriate responses and interventions.
- Support children to engage in a range of learning contexts such as individual, small groups and larger groups as appropriate for their play and support confidence within social experiences.
- Ensure staff are deployed effectively to suit and enhance the learning environment, prioritising the safety and wellbeing of all children.
- Advocate for the child, cultivating professional partnerships with parents/carers and other professionals, presenting their understanding of the child’s journey within multidisciplinary teams to holistically support the child’s individual needs.
- Demonstrate the importance of the home learning environment, developing an effective and collaborative partnership to enhance opportunities for the child.
- Make use of formative and summative assessment, tracking children’s progress to plan for future learning possibilities including early interventions based on individual developmental needs.
- Take responsibility for supporting the key person in articulating children's progress and planning future learning possibilities.
- Use current and contemporary knowledge, research, theories and approaches to develop, enhance and articulate their own pedagogical approach and practice.
- Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally to enhance their practice.
- Plan, carry out and guide appropriate physical care routines for individual children.
- Promote, model and support children and families to develop a healthy approach to making choices relating to personal care including eating, sleeping and physical activity.
- Develop, model and implement strategies to support the emotional, psychological, physical and cultural needs of all children within the setting.
- Identify and act upon own responsibilities in relation to health and safety, prevention and control of infection, carrying out risk assessments and risk management processes in line with policies and procedures.
- Ensure the security and confidentiality of data, records and information in line with current legislation.
- Be a leaderful practitioner to support, mentor, coach, train and guide colleagues in a range of settings, providing inspiration and motivation to engage others to develop their practice.
- Be confident to identify, action and competently challenge issues and undertake difficult conversations where appropriate.
- Advocate for children through their child centred approach, listening to the voice of the child; ensuring children’s rights, views and wishes are heard, respected and acted upon at all times. Offer appropriate support and influence decisions in the best interests of the child.
- Competently action and carry out safeguarding procedures, using their professional curiosity, knowledge, insight and understanding.
- Explore and understand, challenge and question; knowing when to act to safeguard and protect children.
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
About this employer
The Instepz Day Nursery offers wonderful, safe outdoor play areas as well as convenient parking. Our nursery provides a peaceful, intentional play space since they are light, airy, and furnished in neutral tones. Our outdoor areas are planned to provide our kids with a variety of outdoor-specific activities, experiences, risks, and challenges, as well as room to run and play and a chance to be in touch with nature.
After this apprenticeship
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SKERN LODGE LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000323264.
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Closes in 11 days (Thursday 31 July 2025)
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