Apprentice Nursery Practitioner - Little Stars
JUST CHILDCARE LIMITED
124 Hadfield Road (SK13 2DR)
Closes in 22 days (Monday 18 August 2025)
Posted on 24 July 2025
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Summary
Are you passionate about working with children? If so, you’ll be a perfect addition to our family! We are currently recruiting for an apprentice nursery practitioner in our Nursery Lane nursery! As a nursery apprentice, you will have the opportunity to observe childcare workers in the nursery as they teach, communicate and play with little ones.
- Wage
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£19,125.60 a year
- Training course
- Early years lead practitioner (level 5)
- Hours
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30hrs per week. Days and times to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 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
At Partou we’re more than just a team; we’re a close community driven by our passion for childcare, and our commitment to each individual child’s development.
Our apprentices will learn the skills of being an Early Years Practitioner while studying for a professional qualification. This allows nursery apprentices to earn while they learn in an engaging, progressive and supportive environment.
As well as observing experienced practitioners in the nursery, you will also have a number of roles and responsibilities.
Roles and responsibilities of a nursery apprentice include:
- Planning and maintaining children’s records
- Developing an understanding of Safeguarding Policy
- Undertaking a shared responsibility for caring for children’s health, safety, cleanliness and general wellbeing
- Working toward a childcare qualification, such as a Level 5 Early Years Qualification
What to expect as an apprentice nursery practitioner:
- You’ll be supported and mentored every step of the way, working alongside qualified staff members
- You’ll build relationships with children, parents and colleagues
- Plan and deliver activities for the children in your care in line with the EYFS
As an apprentice nursery practitioner, we offer a salary from £12.26 per hour (dependent on age and experience), plus many exciting benefits:
- Genuine opportunities for career progression with access to professional accredited training
- A comprehensive pension scheme with employer contributions
- 60 % childcare discounts – in any of our settings across England
- Enhanced maternity/ paternity leave
- Rewards and recognition – high street discounts at your fingertips
- Buddy bonus scheme – cash rewards for referring a friend
- Have your birthday off on us!
- Health & wellbeing support 24/7 with access to external helpline of professional counsellors
……and so much more!
Where you'll work
124 Hadfield Road
SK13 2DR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT 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
Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. They will provide you with all of the on-the-job training you need to up-skill in your role, and your 20% off-the-job learning will be incorporated as part of your working day.
You will be working towards the Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner apprenticeship standard, which includes:
- Leadership and management
- Child development and theory
- Pedagogy
- Health and wellbeing
- Health and safety
- Equality, diversity, inclusion and SEN
- Safeguarding
- Partnership working
This will be delivered by your dedicated training provider, Realise.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Creative
- Organisation skills
- Patience
- Team working
Other requirements
DBS required.
About this employer
For us at Partou, childcare isn’t just a job, it’s a journey – one where every child leads us in a unique new direction. As part of the Netherlands’ largest childcare group, we’ve access to world-leading expertise in learning and development, so you can be confident your child will benefit from an experience as unique as they are. Of course, care is as much about empathy as education, and ours is a child-led approach that emphasises building confidence and curiosity – so that every child in our care has the freedom to flourish.
After this apprenticeship
To be confirmed.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333643.
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Closes in 22 days (Monday 18 August 2025)
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