Early Years Apprenticeship

CHILTERN TRAINING LTD · Reading

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Banana Moon Day Nursery Caversham opened its door to our local community in October 2016. We care for children from the ages of 3 months to 5 years and provide a stimulating and safe environment. We offer three rooms, Baby Moons, Mini Moons and Full Moons and are fortunate to have a large building that helps us provide unique learning opportunities to our children. We have a dedicated communications rooms where our children can listen to stories and where our older children engage in learning phonics. With our very experienced in house chef we provide healthy nutritious home cooked meals, ensuring all dietary requirements are taken into consideration. We support our highly qualified staff and promote their continued learning and development through in house and borough led training to ensure they provide a consistently high level of service and care. We take pride in getting involved in our community and support several local charities.

Monday - Friday between 8.00am - 7.00pm. 40 hours a week1 yearCommunication skills, Organisation skills, Customer care skills, Problem solving skills, Creative, Initiative, Non judgemental, Patience, Physical fitness, Caring, Kindness

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 3)
  • Maths (grade 3)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness
  • Caring
  • Kindness

After this apprenticeship

  • Learners can use this qualification to go into various care roles. You can progress onto the advanced apprenticeship and work your way up in the nursery, going into team-leading and management roles
  • You could also use your experience to go into teaching, nursing, midwifery, play work and social work
  • There are many directions you can go with your apprenticeship should you wish

The essentials

Hours, commitment and the dates that matter.

Posted 03 Mar 2026
Apply by 01 Sep 2026

Where you'd be based

RG4 8ED

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