APPRENTICE EARLY YEARS PRACTITIONER
Banana Moon Nursery Billericay
BILLERICAY (CM12 9HS)
Closes on Wednesday 30 July 2025
Posted on 17 June 2025
Contents
Summary
The opportunity to work for a leading nursery chain that offers excellent working opportunities for suitable practitioners who want a long-term career in Early Years. Please apply for the position if you have nursery experience and are wanting a career in Childcare.
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Shift pattern available and to be discussed at interview, 30-40 hours over 3-5 days. No weekend work.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Saturday 30 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year
- Positions available
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3
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
Nursery Practitioner responsibilities will include:
- Safeguarding the children, including caring for them and supervising them at all times.
- Liaise with and form strong partnerships with parents, including taking part in development progress review meetings and providing daily feedback to parents and carers.
- Take on key worker responsibilities, including observing and planning for children's needs, providing exciting and stimulating activities based on the next steps for children.
- Track children's progress with our unique Parent App.
- Adhering to the nursery policies and procedures at all times.
Where you'll work
THE STABLES
LONDON ROAD
BILLERICAY
CM12 9HS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
EDEN TRAINING SOLUTIONS LIMITED
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
The successful candidate will start an Early Years Educator Level 3 qualification with Eden Training Solutions.
This will be delivered in a Hybrid role with a mixture of face-to-face visits, webinars and online sessions.
More training information
The successful candidate will be supported by a skills coach who will ensure all the course criteria is fully detailed throughout the learner journey.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
Other in:
- CHILDCARE (grade WORKING WITH CHILDREN)
- CHILDCARE (grade WORKING WITH CHILDREN)
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
English/Maths (grade 4 And Above)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
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Benefits • Bupa Employee Assistance. We all have times in our life when we need a little extra support which is why we’re working with Bupa to bring all of our employees a free, 24-hour confidential helpline service. • Childcare discount for staff up to 100%. • Extra day off on (or as close to) your birthday. • After 2 years of continuous employment, you will gain an extra day off per year up to a maximum of 5 days. • A unique Early Learning and Development program for our children • Less paperwork is involved, meaning that you can spend more time with the children • Use of tablets that are linked to our bespoke 'Parent App', giving instant messages to and from parents about their child's day and development • State-of-the-art technology, including a biometric entry system, an interactive screen for our Preschool children as well as our Parent App and tablets • Excellent rates of pay (based on experience and qualification) • Great holiday entitlement • Further on-the-job training in conjunction with Essex County Council via our Bursary https://www.bananamoon-billericay.co.uk/ecc-poppins-bursary • Great career prospects • You will be provided with a free DBS check and uniform if offered the job • If you feel that you are looking for a challenge, or simply want to further your experience with the possibility of promotion and working your way up in a company, this is where you should apply!
About this company
About our team- At Banana Moon Billericay we are very lucky to have such a talented team who are your best cheer leaders to support you with your career path. We will always look further into ways that you can create different areas, activities and expand your knowledge to empower you in your development. Every other month as a team we all go out for a meal and or team building activity such as Axe throwing or Crazy Golf. There is an annual Black tie event with Banana Moon which the directors pay for you to attend. All you need to do is find the outfit and guess who you are going to impress with the top secret event details and guest line up kept under wraps till the very end! Each member of staff is given a Easter and Christmas celebration treat what will you choose this year, will it be Chocolate or Wine? As a management team we provide a employee of the month and staff appreciation treats for all of the team. After a long day you don't need to be tidying the floors for the 10th time that day we have a cleaner that comes in and will tidy our toilets and mop the floors so you don't have to! Make your workplace your own happy place and enjoy every minute of what you do. Being with Banana Moon Billericay help you to progress in your career and will support you along the way to be the best version of yourself you can be!
After this apprenticeship
The opportunity to progress onto higher level Early Years course/qualifications.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
EDEN TRAINING SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Matt Travis
matthewtravis@eden-ts.com
01709886838
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000326545.
Apply now
Closes on Wednesday 30 July 2025
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