Pre-School Practitioner Apprentice

Pre-School Practitioner Apprentice @ Mini Adventures Pre-School

Location: Rockingham Road, Market Harborough, LE16 7BA

PLEASE NOTE: This position is for immediate start.

WHO are Mini Adventures Pre-School?

Mini Adventures pre-school provides high quality childcare in a safe and happy environment. They encourage children, through play activities, to learn and develop at their own pace. They offer a wide range of challenging and stimulating experiences through which they can achieve this.

WHAT will I get from working with Mini Adventures Pre-School?

• EARN: £8 per hour, 30 hours per week.
• EXPERIENCE- your hours: Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm - TERM TIME ONLY
• QUALIFICATION: Early Years Practitioner Level 2 takes approximately 16 months.

WHAT will my DAY look like?

You’ll be responsible for providing a high standard of physical, emotional, social, and intellectual care for children in the provision, and work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn. You’ll build and maintain a strong partnership working with parents to enable children’s needs to be met. Your daily tasks will include:

• Deliver the EYFS ensuring that the individual needs and interests of children in the provision are met (in conjunction with other team members).
• Keeping records of key children’s developments and learning journeys and share with parents, carers, and other key adults in the child’s life.
• Developing and maintaining strong partnerships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate day to day caring and early learning needs.
• Ensuring the provision of a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children having an awareness of any disabilities, family cultures and medical histories.
• Advising manager/deputy of any concerns, e.g., regarding children, parents, the safety of the environment, preserving confidentiality as necessary.
• Being involved in out-of-working hours activities, e.g., training, staff meetings, summer fayres etc.
• Being flexible within working practices of the provision, undertaking other responsible duties where needed, such as domestic tasks, preparation of snacks/meals, cleansing of equipment etc.
• Developing your role within the team, especially with regard to being a key person.
• Being aware of the high profile of the provision and to uphold its standards at all times, both in work hours and outside.
• Undertaking and leading on additional responsibilities such as SENCO, training coordinator, safeguarding officer etc.
• Minimum of 6 hours per week spent on apprenticeship work and training.

HOW does the Apprenticeship Work?

Working towards your Early Years Practitioner Level 2 Qualification, you’ll attend monthly 1-2-1 meetings (online via teams every month – NO classroom OR college!) with your tutor and learn about modules including child development from birth to 7 years, safeguarding, promoting wellbeing, supporting activities, purposeful play & educational programmes, and more!  You will be given a minimum of 3 hours per week to complete any apprenticeship work (assignments, research, and projects) and will receive at least another 3 hours of training from your employer. All apprenticeship work and training is completed in the workplace, during working hours.

WHAT skills/qualifications do I NEED?

• Minimum GRADE 4/C in GCSE (or equivalent) Maths & English.
• UK Residency – must have lived in the UK for at least 3 years.
• Communication, team working & relationship building.
• Confidentiality, empathy, patience & non-judgemental.
• Organisation, creativity & problem-solving skills.
• Ability to use initiative & think logically.

What happens next?

If your application is successful, you will receive a call from our dedicated Recruitment Consultant who will discuss the qualification, location and course length in more detail. Following this call, you will be asked to write a supporting statement and complete an English and Maths assessment.

If you really want to impress us, why not show your enthusiasm and carry out some further research on the employer and the qualification you’ll be working towards! Links are provided below:

Employer Website: https://www.miniadventures.co.uk/

About the Qualification: https://www.ctskills.co.uk/apprenticeships/childcare