Apprentice Early Years Practitioner

Duties will include:

• To work alongside Nursery practitioners to ensure safety and supervision for the children at all times. Staff must provide constant supervision of all children allocated to them, a child is never left alone or left to be supervised by another child or parent at any time)
• To report any matters of concern regarding children, staff or parents to the Nursery Manager/ Deputy/ Proprietor as appropriate
• To identify and meet the physical, intellectual, emotional and social needs of the children
• To implement and adhere to a consistent daily routine both indoors and outdoors, ensuring high quality teaching and learning experiences are offered to children at all times
• To provide a secure, loving, caring and stimulating environment for each individual child
• To plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities and evaluation as required
• To take care of the children physically and encourage awareness of personal hygiene
• To work in a positive manner with colleagues, sharing best practice to ensure better outcomes for children
• To demonstrate (through role modelling) good manners and respect for others, both children and adults
• To support the Nursery Christian ethos through role modelling positive and inclusive behaviour
• To share positive information about the children with their parents, in a professional, friendly manner
• To maintain children’s records including observation, assessment and tracking, sharing all information with the child’s parents/ carer keeping learning journeys up to date
• To attend and be involved in any out of work-time activities such as staff meetings and training sessions (as required). All training is paid
• To be aware of and implement all our policies and procedures
• To take part in mealtimes and ensure that they are positive times of pleasant interaction
• To share cleaning responsibilities and ensure safety and hygiene of the environment and toys/ resources/ equipment
• To ensure that children who are unwell are kept close, warm (cooled if they have a high temperature), calm and content, and that parents are contacted if necessary
• To record accidents and incidents as per policies and procedures
• To be flexible to the daily business demands of the nursery, including working hours and room duties
• To liaise with other childcare professionals when necessary, sharing information and therefore promoting a multi-agency working environment
• To encourage children in self-help, personal hygiene and acceptable social behaviour in a positive way
• To treat any information of matters relating to the work within the nursery as confidential