Early Years Practitioner Level 2 Apprentice

Leicester, LE8 0LG

Ref: VAC-01228

Type: Apprenticeship

Salary: Apprenticeship Minimum Wage

Sector: Early Years

Deadline: 29/08/2025

Start Date: 01/09/2025

Working Week: Monday to Friday 30.00 Hours Per week

Company: Hunny Hive Day Nursery

Positions Available: 1

Vacancy Detail

At Hunny Hive Day Nursery, your main role as a Level 2 Apprentice is to contribute to delivering a high standard of physical, emotional, social, and intellectual care for the children in our setting. During your apprenticeship, you will be involved in planning and supporting age-appropriate activities that promote development across all areas, while ensuring a safe, welcoming, and nurturing environment. You’ll be expected to encourage physical wellbeing, prepare engaging resources, and provide comfort and care to help children feel secure. Your responsibilities will also include maintaining up-to-date achievement records for your key children, working closely with parents—especially those of children with additional needs—to support full integration, and actively participating in nursery events such as staff meetings, parents’ evenings, and seasonal celebrations. Flexibility is key, as you may assist with domestic tasks and support the wider team as needed. You’ll also help uphold the nursery’s philosophy, record accidents and incidents, and ensure safeguarding and health and safety policies are followed at all times. Additionally, you’ll support positive behaviour management, participate in training and development opportunities, and report any health and safety concerns to the management team. If you already hold a Level 2 Early Years qualification, we’d love to hear from you—we can support your progression to a Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship, with a salary ranging from £10,122 to £23,712 depending on age and experience.
The working hours are either 8am-2pm or 12pm-6pm Monday to Friday.

Qualifications required

Ideally, we would like someone who has good communication, outgoing, eager to learn and passionate about childcare
Prefer GCSE Maths and English but will support if need to complete functional skills

Personal qualities

Passionate
Empathetic
Kind
Caring
Dedicated

Skills required

Self-motivation
Good communication skills
Ability to meet strict deadlines
Time management

Future Prospects

Progression to the level 3 early years educator standard

Other Information

DBS required or applied for on starting. 20 days holiday plus bank holidays.

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 Practitioner Level 2 Apprentice