Deputy Room Leader Apprentice
ROLE PLAY ADVENTURES LTD
Bristol (BS2 0LP)
Closes in 29 days (Saturday 25 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 24 September 2025
Contents
Summary
The learner will have exposure working in a senior role such as a Deputy Room Leader. Undertaking this apprenticeship will develop the practitioner’s ability to reflect and build on practice through ongoing professional enquiry and action-led research.
- Wage
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£27,560 a year
- Training course
- Early years lead practitioner (level 5)
- Hours
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Monday – Friday. 40 hours per week. Varies between 4 or 5 days per week. Times between 7.30am – 6pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 30 October 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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4
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
Creating Inspiring Learning Environments:
Plan and deliver engaging activities that reflect the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and take into account children’s interests, abilities, and cultural backgrounds.
Ensure the environment—indoors and outdoors—is stimulating, purposeful, and inclusive, promoting exploration, independence, and curiosity.
Continuously review and reflect on daily routines, adapting them to meet the individual needs of each child.
Leading and Supporting the Team:
Work flexibly as part of the wider nursery team, stepping in wherever needed to support smooth operations.
Supervise and mentor staff in your room, ensuring consistency of practice and providing guidance where needed.
Share knowledge, lead by example, and inspire your colleagues to deliver their very best every day.
Identify training needs, delegate tasks appropriately, and support the manager in leading meetings, inductions, and 1:1s.
Building Strong Relationships:
Act as a Key Person for a small group of children, building strong, trusting bonds with them and their families.
Set developmentally appropriate weekly targets for key children and ensure they are integrated into planning.
Communicate with parents through daily diaries, learning journals, and regular updates using systems like EY Log.
Work in partnership with parents and carers, encouraging them to play an active role in their child’s learning journey.
Safeguarding and Welfare:
Take responsibility for the welfare, health, and safety of all children in your care.
Complete daily risk assessments and ensure environments are safe, welcoming, and inclusive.
Follow safeguarding policies rigorously, reporting concerns immediately in line with local authority and nursery procedures.
Promote wellbeing through routines such as toilet checks, hygiene practices, and healthy eating.
Upholding Standards and Compliance:
Support management in maintaining Ofsted ‘Good’ status while striving towards ‘Outstanding’.
Reinforce company policies and procedures, dealing with any breaches swiftly and appropriately.
Ensure compliance with statutory ratios and complete ratio and headcount sheets daily.
Maintain accurate observations and assessments to monitor progress in line with EYFS.
Professionalism and Reflection:
Lead by example in professionalism, conduct, and communication at all times.
Engage in reflective practice daily, identifying opportunities to improve and innovate.
Support and promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, challenging behaviour or practices that do not align with these values.
Attend staff meetings, training sessions, and professional development opportunities.
Additional Responsibilities:
Be flexible and ready to support the nursery by helping with domestic tasks, covering staff absences, or assisting in other rooms.
Undertake peer observations to support colleagues and encourage continual development.
Where you'll work
Shaftesbury Chapel
Union Road
Bristol
BS2 0LP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE CHILD CARE COMPANY (OLD WINDSOR) LIMITED
Training course
Early years lead practitioner (level 5)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- 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.
- Develop, model and implement strategies to support the emotional, social, psychological, physical and cultural needs of all children within the educational setting.
- Support and promote children’s diverse speech, language and communication development and determining and adapting appropriate responses and interventions to support verbal, nonverbal interactions and engagement with written communication.
- 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.
- Engage in effective strategies to develop and extend children's learning and thinking, including sustained shared thinking.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Plan, carry out and guide appropriate personal care routines for individual children.
- 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.
- Encourage all children’s participation, ensuring a sensitive, respectful and effective balance within the adult and child dynamic to facilitate play opportunities.
- Ensure staff are deployed effectively to suit and enhance the learning environment, prioritising the safety and wellbeing of all children.
- Cultivate professional partnerships with parents, carers, colleagues 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.
- Provide a dynamic, evolving and enabling environment that reflects the current interests, motivations, and play of individual and groups of children.
- Use current and contemporary knowledge, research, theories and approaches to develop, enhance and articulate their own pedagogical approach and practice.
- Observe, assess, plan, facilitate and participate in play opportunities which include current curriculum requirements.
- 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 including the safe use of digital technology to communicate effectively in both oral and written English.
- Promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
- Be a leaderful practitioner to support, mentor, coach, train and guide colleagues in a range of educational settings, providing inspiration and motivation to engage others to develop their practice, supporting teams and guiding change.
- Identify, action and competently challenge issues and undertake difficult conversations where appropriate.
- Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally to enhance their practice.
- Ensure the security and confidentiality of data, records and information in line with current legislation.
- 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.
- Apply the principles of sustainability and segregate used resources for reuse, recycling, and safe disposal .
- 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.
- Develop, model and implement strategies to support the emotional, social, psychological, physical and cultural needs of all children within the educational setting.
- Support and promote children’s diverse speech, language and communication development and determining and adapting appropriate responses and interventions to support verbal, nonverbal interactions and engagement with written communication.
- 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.
- Engage in effective strategies to develop and extend children's learning and thinking, including sustained shared thinking.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Plan, carry out and guide appropriate personal care routines for individual children.
- 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.
- Encourage all children’s participation, ensuring a sensitive, respectful and effective balance within the adult and child dynamic to facilitate play opportunities.
- Ensure staff are deployed effectively to suit and enhance the learning environment, prioritising the safety and wellbeing of all children.
- Cultivate professional partnerships with parents, carers, colleagues 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.
- Provide a dynamic, evolving and enabling environment that reflects the current interests, motivations, and play of individual and groups of children.
- Use current and contemporary knowledge, research, theories and approaches to develop, enhance and articulate their own pedagogical approach and practice.
- Observe, assess, plan, facilitate and participate in play opportunities which include current curriculum requirements.
- 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 including the safe use of digital technology to communicate effectively in both oral and written English.
- Promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
- Be a leaderful practitioner to support, mentor, coach, train and guide colleagues in a range of educational settings, providing inspiration and motivation to engage others to develop their practice, supporting teams and guiding change.
- Identify, action and competently challenge issues and undertake difficult conversations where appropriate.
- Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally to enhance their practice.
- Ensure the security and confidentiality of data, records and information in line with current legislation.
- 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.
- Apply the principles of sustainability and segregate used resources for reuse, recycling, and safe disposal .
Training schedule
The Childcare Company will allocate a Development Coach to the apprentice, and they will undertake 121s with the apprentice on a monthly basis and this will be a blended approach of F2F and online.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 - 9)
- Maths (grade 4 - 9)
Other in:
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
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
Need to have worked within a nursery setting for 2 - 3 years - ESSENTIAL
About this employer
Little Adventures Nursery began with a simple yet powerful vision: to create a nurturing space where children could flourish, explore, and grow. From the very start, our mission has been to provide exceptional early years education, blending the highest standards of care with an environment that feels like a second home. Every aspect of our nursery has been thoughtfully designed to spark curiosity, encourage independence, and inspire a lifelong love of learning, ensuring that every child’s journey is as unique and special as they are.
https://littleadventuresnursery.com/our-nurseries/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Pension. Discounts on gym and health equipment such as Peloton and Garmin. Option to purchase or sell holiday. Sick pay up to 4 weeks. Childcare Nursery Benefits. 33 days holiday. Birthday day off. Free uniform. 25% off gym membership.
After this apprenticeship
When there is a role available for Room Leader or Deputy as you have the experience, you will be able to apply.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE CHILD CARE COMPANY (OLD WINDSOR) LIMITED
Ali Franklin
ali.franklin@thechildcarecompany.com
01753 978514
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000343627.
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Closes in 29 days (Saturday 25 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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