Apprentice

Role: Ref 11622 - Apprentice
Location: Braintree, Essex
Salary: GBP11,012.60 per annum
Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Full Time 40hrs per week (18 months)
Closing date: Midnight on 5th March 2024
Benefits: Annual leave of 25 days public holidays, childcare vouchers, Blue Light Discount, maternity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, and much more. For more information check out our career's portal.
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About Spring
Spring offers award-winning childcare services, as part of the national charity Action for Children. It's our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK, that is accessible to all. We are focused on enabling young people to learn, have fun and make friends in our bright, engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team.
Join us and you can look forward to:
A kind, caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing, both physical and mental.
Flexible working - wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
Lots of opportunities for training, learning, development, including gaining qualifications.
Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.
Spring Carousel is a 49-place nursery that offers affordable, high-quality childcare in Braintree, Essex for children from 0-months to 5-years. At Spring Carousel, the team ensure children feel happy and settled, offering a huge variety of activities, opportunities to grow and socialise. The nursery offers a sensory room, and a spacious garden that backs on to a large playing field and big playground as well as a nature garden which the centre kindly allows us to use where the children can explore nature and have access to a lovely frog's pond.
We provide fun and stimulating activities for all children to learn and explore through their environment. We pride ourselves on inclusion and have staff trained in Autism level 2 and 2 Staff trained in PANCO where they have implemented fun physical activities like yoga. We have a train link close by for easy travel for parents to access for work.
In the role of Apprentice, you will be;
Working alongside nursery practitioners in supporting children's development, participating, planning and setting up activities for a range of children.
Developing successful relationships with children and their families.
Observing and track children's development and share this with parent/carers and other professionals.
Supporting children during mealtimes and toilet training.
Attending monthly staff meetings and 6 monthly parents/carers evenings.
Completing an apprenticeship to gain your childcare qualification, working within the setting to support the completion of your coursework and studies.
What we need from you:
Our successful candidate will have an enthusiastic and pro-active mindset with a positive attitude and have the ability to form strong and supportive relationships with parents, children and the team. Our Job Description outlines the requirements of the role, but the 'must haves' are:
A genuine interest in childcare & a true passion for children
Patience, a friendly manner, and the ability to communicate with children, young people, colleagues and other adults such as parents and carers.
A commitment to study time to help you achieve your qualification.
A desire to complete your apprenticeship and become a valued member of our team.
Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.
We work together to reach our mission to give children a healthy start in life.
Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Spring we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.
Male staff are often under-represented within this sector and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.
We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
Application Process
There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration - please refer to the JD and Person Specification when applying.
We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.