Preschool Room Leader Apprentice LITTLE NIGHTINGALES CHILDRENS DAY NURSERY LTD
The role includes delivering and maintaining high quality care that stimulates children and aids each child's personal development. It also involves supervising other playroom staff, sharing professional knowledge to improve practices, and making sure all regulatory requirements are complied with in the setting.
Closing date: 20 Feb 2023
Apprenticeship summary
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Annual wage
£21,000.00
Wage range from £21,000 to £24,000 depending on experience
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Working week
Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm.
Total hours per week: 40
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Expected duration
24 Months
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Possible start date
06 Mar 2023
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Date posted
25 Nov 2022
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Apprenticeship level
Higher
Level 5 (Higher national Diploma) -
Reference number
VAC1000110659
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Positions
1 available
What will the apprentice be doing?
- Over viewing planning sheets and record keeping of all the staff in your room
- Ensuring routines are being followed and run smoothly
- Ensuring new decisions are taken on board and maintained in the room at all times
- Ensuring all staff in the room has all information
- Ensuring that all relevant handovers happen between rooms and pegs are completed before children start
- Ensuring that all policies and procedures are being followed by all staff
- Being an excellent role model to the other staff in your room
- Understanding all policies and procedures of the nursery and being able to answer relevant questions from parents/carers/outside agencies (i.e. OFSTED)
- Manage staff effectively, ensuring ratios are maintained throughout the setting
- Overseeing the professionalism of all staff/students in the setting
- Working with students and their supervisor, passing on your knowledge to them, practically and theoretically
- Ensuring the students allocated to your room are aware of and comply with the policies and procedures of the setting
- Welcoming all children and parents to the nursery and helping them settle.(irrespective of their rooms)
- To provide a wide and varied range of activities for the children individually and as a group appropriate to their needs and developmental stage
- Laying out and setting up the nursery and storing away equipment appropriately
- Explaining activities to children and providing help if necessary
- To encourage the children with their language development and positive verbal response
- To organise creative activities and displays for the walls and help display the children’s work
- Maintain a clean and tidy nursery and garden area and ensure books, toys and equipment are clean and in good order
- Encourage and supervise clearing and tidy up time
- Provide a high standard of health and hygiene
- Change nappies and encourage children with toilet training and personal hygiene
- Help children at mealtimes and then tidy and clear away afterwards- keep the children clean
- Act as a key person for a group of children as allocated by the management team, ensuring attachment theories are respected
- Have a sound knowledge of all the children in the setting and an excellent knowledge of your key children
- Work in partnership with parents, consulting and sharing information with them about the needs and progress of their children
- Filling in all the appropriate record keeping for your key child and ensure they are continually up to date
- Attend and participate in staff meetings
- To undertake training and give appropriate feedback to the staff team and implement this in your work
- To take responsibility for aspects of the work of the nursery as required by the management team
- To ensure adherence to the nursery’s child care procedures and policies within all aspects of the work in the nursery
- Ensuring all staff adhering to the policies and procedures of the setting
- To exercise a general duty of care for work colleagues and to be responsible for ensuring a safe working environment for all employees/students under your supervision
- Inform the management team of any concerns regarding the children, parents or other staff
- It is every member of staff responsibility to ensure professionalism and confidentiality are adhered to at all times
- Oversee the professionalism of all staff/ students
- We are an equal opportunities employer, and you need you as a supervisor to promote this within this setting
What training will the apprentice take and what qualification will the apprentice get at the end?
Working towards completing a Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner apprenticeship standard. Work-based learning with ad-hoc workshops at Hertford Regional College.
What is the expected career progression after this apprenticeship?
There will be opportunities for progression and a permanent position subject to performance.
Requirements and prospects
Desired skills and personal qualities
Qualifications
GCSE or equivalent Maths (Grade A*-C (9-4)) Essential
NVQ or SVQ Level 3 or equivalent Childcare (Grade Pass) Essential
Things to consider
About the employer
Employer
LITTLE NIGHTINGALES CHILDRENS DAY NURSERY LTD
https://www.littlenightingales.com/day-nursery-pre-school/
Address
NIGHTINGALE COTTAGE
BARNET ROAD
LONDON COLNEY
AL2 1BG
Training
Training provider
HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE
Contact
The Apprenticeship Team
01992411572
Apprenticeship standard
Early years lead practitioner
Level 5 (Higher national Diploma)
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