Puddleducks North Finchley is looking for a passionate and exciting Nursery Apprentice to join the new team! Offering children 3 months to 5 years the opportunities to thrive and grow through awe and wonder, we want to work with someone and support them through their qualification to L3 Early Years Educator.
Would you like to join a family run nursery that has the latest resources and puts children and staff first? Then this would be the role for you.
Training on the job, there is a fantastic and passionate team to learn from and a wonderful setting to thrive in. The nursery has amazing facilitates including an out of this world roof-garden and indoor jungle.
Do you think you’d like to join the fantastic world of Childcare? Come and join us, we can’t wait to welcome you.

Learn to:

• Support children to learn
• Comfort and engage children
• Plan activities
• Set out areas to provide stimulated opportunities
• Follow daily care routines, i.e. sleep times, nappy changes etc
• Group times- engage children to sing and participate in story time, small games etc
• Encourage play both inside and outdoors in all weathers
• Work as part of the team as well as individually with a small group of children as ratio allows
• To learn about childcare and education through observation and study of the OFSTED curriculum (EYFS) and following assignments set by the evaluator/tutor
• To put into practice skills learnt from course deliverer, colleagues and peers with higher qualifications and experience
• Responsible for the day-to-day care and education of the children attending the nursery and specifically those in their own key group
• To keep informed of all developments and initiatives regarding childcare and education, both at local and national level and ensure that that this is communicated to other colleagues
• To monitor and evaluate the quality of provision for the families through team meetings and self-evaluation through quality standards and development planning
• Actively learning the organisation and maintenance of records and reports
• To ensure that appropriate standards of safety, security and hygiene are implemented and maintained to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, staff, students and other users
• To ensure that all areas are kept clean and hygienic and provide cleaning assistance as per allocated rotas
• To have an on-going commitment to continuing professional development and be available for staff development opportunities and training
• Attend staff meetings and be available to represent the Nursery out of hours
• Any ad-hoc duties assigned by the management

Job Types: Full-time, Apprenticeship
Pay: From £7.55 per hour
Expected hours: No more than 40 per week

Benefits:

• Bereavement leave
• Childcare
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Transport links

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London N12 0BP: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Why would you like to start a career in Childcare?

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (required)

Work Location: In perso

Please refer the Job description for details