Early Years Practitioner (Apprentice)

Salary: £16,685.76 per annum
Location: Braintree, Essex
Contract/Hours: Fixed Term/Full Time – 40 hours per week (18 months)

Benefits:

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Professional qualifications and excellent training
Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages 
Up to 5% employer contribution and life assurance cover 
Blue Light Card eligibility with discounts at 15,000 national retailers

A bit about the role:

As an Early Years Apprentice, you'll play an important role in supporting our passionate nursery team at Spring Seesaw, working alongside experienced practitioners and room leaders. You'll gain hands on experience while studying towards your early years’ qualification, learning how to create inspiring play opportunities, support children's development, and build positive relationships with families.

Every day brings a new opportunity to learn, grow, and make a real difference in the lives of our youngest learners, all within a supportive and nurturing environment where your development truly matters.

In this role, you will:

Work alongside nursery practitioners in supporting children's development.
Participate, plan and setting up activities for a range of children.
Develop successful relationships with children and their families.
Observe and track children's development and share this with parent/carers and other professionals.

Let’s talk about you:

A genuine interest in childcare and a true passion for children
Patience, a friendly manner, and the ability to communicate with children, young people, colleagues and other adults such as parents and carers.
A commitment to study time to help you achieve your qualification. 
A desire to complete your apprenticeship and become a valued member of our team.

The Training

You will be completing an Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship. The expected duration of this course is 18 months. On successful completion of your apprenticeship, you will be awarded:

Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship
Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid OR Level 3 Award Emergency Paediatric First Aid
Apprentices will achieve an EYE qualification which has been approved to count towards the EYFS level 3 child: staff ratios

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you. 

We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life. 

Why Spring Nurseries

Imagine a place where laughter echoes, imaginations run wild, and every day is a new adventure. That's Spring Nursery! We're not just a nursery; we are a family dedicated to creating a joyful and nurturing environment where children thrive. As part of Action for Children, we're on a mission to provide outstanding early education that's accessible to all.

At Spring, we are committed to supporting your career growth! Check out our Spring Career Progression Map attached to this advert, which highlights the options for progression into a specialist role.

How to apply

If you require any support to apply, please contact: Recruitment Team at RecruitmentService@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13244.

Diversity, equality and inclusion

We work hard to create an inclusive environment. One where individuality is celebrated and where everyone feels valued and supported. Because when we come together, with skills like yours, we’re capable of amazing things.

We actively encourage applications frompeople withBlack, AsianandMinority Ethnicbackgroundsandpeople with adisability,as these groupsare under-represented within Action for Children.

Men are currently under-represented within our Children Service roles. We’d like to change that. So, we really encourage men to apply for any of our Children Service roles.

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