Nursery Team Leader apprenticeship

Baytree Park Private Day Nursery

MANCHESTER (M24 2AY)

Closes in 17 days (Monday 25 August 2025)

Posted on 7 August 2025

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Summary

Nursery experience is essential with Early Years Level 2 and level 3 qualifications, along with maths and English - Grade 4/ C or above in both Some experience running a team. Some employers prefer candidates who have worked in a similar role/industry with relevant experience, Customer services is essential.

Wage

£21,530.04 a year

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£13.00 p/h

Training course
Team leader (level 3)
Hours
Shifts TBC.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 3 months

Positions available

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

  • Communicating goals and deadlines to team members.
  • Planning workloads and delegating tasks.
  • Creating a productive work environment for the team using gamification, trust and other appropriate strategies.
  • Assessing team performance and providing feedback to employees.
  • Assisting with hiring and training employees.
  • HR process’s – managing staff day to day.
  • Performance related management.
  • Supporting training and development of employees.
  • Deputising the director when away.
  • Day to day admin and business needs
  • Assisting with the daily operation of the organization.
  • Performing customer service functions, including interacting with customers and answering questions.
  • Providing teams with information about recent developments, programmes and policy changes of management.

Where you'll work

JOSHUA LANE
MIDDLETON
MANCHESTER
M24 2AY

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

WOODSPEEN TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Team leader (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Use resources to implement operational and team plans.
  • Use tools to organise, prioritise and allocate daily and weekly work activities.
  • Able to collate and interpret data and information and create reports.
  • Identify and support the development of the team through informal coaching and continuous professional development.
  • Use information and problem-solving techniques to provide solutions and influence the decision-making process.
  • Use digital tools for planning and project management to monitor project progress, taking corrective action to deliver against the project plan.
  • Review work processes to identify opportunities to improve performance and for continuous improvement.
  • Use technology and software to produce documentation, such as spreadsheets and presentation packages to communicate information.
  • Manage individual or team performance by setting objectives, monitoring progress, and providing clear guidance and feedback.
  • Manage others through change by identifying challenges and the activities to resolve them.
  • Interpret organisational strategy and communicate how this impacts others.
  • Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practices, and advise stakeholders on their application.
  • Communicate information through different media, such as face-to-face meetings, emails, reports, and presentations to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders in the organisation to ensure the delivery of operational goals.
  • Manage and maintain relationships with a diverse workforce and stakeholders.
  • Negotiate with and challenge stakeholders to manage change and reduce conflict.
  • Interpret policy and support the delivery of equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and monitor their impact on their team.
  • Identify future changes in the sector such as technology advances that may impact their organisation.
  • Monitor the use of technology and the potential to reduce energy consumption through their optimisation in day-to-day tasks, such as reducing the use of paper and switching off items when not in use.
  • Use resources to implement operational and team plans.
  • Use tools to organise, prioritise and allocate daily and weekly work activities.
  • Able to collate and interpret data and information and create reports.
  • Identify and support the development of the team through informal coaching and continuous professional development.
  • Use information and problem-solving techniques to provide solutions and influence the decision-making process.
  • Use digital tools for planning and project management to monitor project progress, taking corrective action to deliver against the project plan.
  • Review work processes to identify opportunities to improve performance and for continuous improvement.
  • Use technology and software to produce documentation, such as spreadsheets and presentation packages to communicate information.
  • Manage individual or team performance by setting objectives, monitoring progress, and providing clear guidance and feedback.
  • Manage others through change by identifying challenges and the activities to resolve them.
  • Interpret organisational strategy and communicate how this impacts others.
  • Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practices, and advise stakeholders on their application.
  • Communicate information through different media, such as face-to-face meetings, emails, reports, and presentations to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders in the organisation to ensure the delivery of operational goals.
  • Manage and maintain relationships with a diverse workforce and stakeholders.
  • Negotiate with and challenge stakeholders to manage change and reduce conflict.
  • Interpret policy and support the delivery of equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and monitor their impact on their team.
  • Identify future changes in the sector such as technology advances that may impact their organisation.
  • Monitor the use of technology and the potential to reduce energy consumption through their optimisation in day-to-day tasks, such as reducing the use of paper and switching off items when not in use.

Training schedule

All training will be in house, Woodspeen will provide the Team leader L3 course online.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (grade 4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

Early Years L2 Practitioner & Early Years L3 Educator qualifications are Essential. Please check travel times to/from the vacancy, if travelling by public transport always check timetables before applying.

About this employer

Welcome To Baytree Park. Finding the right nursery for your child is not an easy task, but we at Baytree hope you will start here. Baytree Park Private Nursery School is a spacious modern building to the highest of requirements and standing in it's own grounds of 4.03 acres.

https://www.baytreepark.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

People that have completed this apprenticeship have gone onto a range of careers that have included senior roles and management.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

WOODSPEEN TRAINING LIMITED

Sam Moreton

samuel.moreton@woodspeentraining.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336114.

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Closes in 17 days (Monday 25 August 2025)

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