- GMFJ Reference
259488
- Wages
£7.55 p/h
- Hours
30.00 per week
- Date Posted
09/04/2025
- Start Date
26/05/2025
- Approx. Duration
15 months
- Location
Leamington Spa
- Status
Now Taking Applications
- Sector
Education & Training
- Opportunity Type
Advanced Level 3
- Apprenticeship Standard
Early years educator (ST0135)
- Employer
The Lighthouse Nursery (Bright Stars)
Description
The Lighthouse Nursery, part of the Bright Stars group, are looking for an apprentice to join their outstanding Ofsted rated nursery. The Lighthouse Nursery is very well resourced with a wide range of both indoor and outdoor play equipment including books, bikes, scooters, role play toys, musical instruments, creative tools, ICT resources, construction materials, sand, water, messy play and much more!
Apprentice responsibilities:
- Supporting the Practitioners to assess, plan and observe to support learning and development
- Planning playful opportunities to support learning and development.
- Safeguarding children and following policies and procedures to maintain, safe, secure healthy and hygienic environment
- Liaising with parents to share information to support health, wellbeing, learning and development
- Working and sharing information within a team.
- Supporting personal care needs for children
Join the team and you can expect;
•Lovely purpose-built nursery environment with high quality resources available
•Uniform provided
•Paycare health benefits
•Join a friendly team
•Supportive and caring Management team
•Good location within a new development
•Ongoing training and development opportunities
•Career progression, if desired
For more information about this vacancy please contact Realise on 0333 444 3973 (Ref ID: 259488)
Company website : http://www.lighthousenursery.com/index.html
- Good communication skills
- Desire to help children develop and grow to achieve their full potential
- Organisation
- An attentive and compassionate nature
- GCSE Maths/English or equivalent, or willingness to work towards the required level of functional skills alongside the apprenticeship.
- Some experience working with babies or children under the age of five
- Option for skills Bootcamp course to start accelerated apprenticeship at level 3 for the right candidate.
Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. Bright Stars 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 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, which includes:
• Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
• Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
• Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid or Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid
• Level 2 Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)
This will be delivered through Bright Star's dedicated training provider, Realise.
- A BIG smile!
- Sense of humour
- Friendly
- Enthusiasm and patience
- Willing to progress
- Employment upon qualification with further CPD opportunities
- Free Parking to the left of the nursery on Guys Cliffe Road
- Local transport less than 15mins walk
- DBS required!