Early Years Apprentice

Eastmoor, S42 7DA

Ref: VAC-01593

Type: Apprenticeship

Salary: £8.00 per month

Sector: Early Years

Deadline: 30/11/2025

Start Date: 08/12/2025

Working Week: 38 hours a week Monday to Friday

Company: Little Peaks Day Nursery

Positions Available: 2

Vacancy Detail

We are working hard to create a well qualified, dedicated, passionate and fun team of individuals who can support each other to be the best practitioners that they can be. The role is permanent, 38 hours over 5 days a week – here comes the great part – apprentices will have 4 days in their normal role and 1 day ‘off the job’. This could include working in a different room gaining experience, taking part in exciting training/webinars, having meetings with assessors or working from home to complete coursework.

Provide a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment for children.
• Plan and implement engaging educational activities that promote early childhood development.
• Communicate effectively with children, parents, and colleagues to foster positive relationships.
• Manage daily operations within the nursery, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Lead by example, demonstrating best practices in childcare and early education.
• Support children's individual needs and encourage their social, emotional, and physical development.
• Drive to various locations as required for training sessions.

We are a new nursery, in a gorgeous countryside location, striving for the very best outcomes for children and staff. We are very committed to staff wellbeing and development and want to create a genuinely lovely place to work. We like to look after staff in lots of different ways, a few examples (terms and conditions apply)
• We celebrate staff birthdays by giving them a day off, fully paid, within the week of their birthday.
• Staff are awarded additional annual leave once they have been with us for 3 years
• We offer staff discount on childcare fees
• Free designated car park
• Two closure days each year where staff, fully paid, engage in training and team building

Qualifications required

Maths and English but not essential

Personal qualities

Hard working, punctual, enthusiastic, team player, caring, creative.

Skills required

Core Childcare Skills which are desirable
• Basic Understanding of child development
• Basic Safeguarding awareness
• Basic Health and safety knowledge
• Basic care routines
• Speaking and listening
Practical and Academic Skills which are desirable but not essential…
• Basic literacy and numeracy
• Basic IT skills
• Time management
• Food Hygiene awareness

Future Prospects

We invest so much in training staff – we’re in it for the long haul. Nothing makes us happier than seeing staff progress through qualifications, CPD and job roles – we are here to help you succeed and hopefully you’ll be with us long into your career.

Other Information

This is a role that will require you to complete your full and relevant qualification in Early Years with the support of our training provider and ourselves.

Training to be Provided

Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. They will provide you with all of the on-the-job training you need to up-skill in your role, and your 20% off-the-job learning will be incorporated as part of your working day.
You will be working towards the Level 2 Early Years Practitioner apprenticeship standard, which includes:
• Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
• Level 2 Early Years Practitioner Qualification
• Functional skills in Maths and English if required
This will be delivered by your dedicated training provider, Realise.

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Early Years Apprentice