Early Years Apprentice

Complete Childcare is a group of 17 nurseries based in Wokingham, Bracknell, Reading, Aldermaston, Newbury and Banbury. The team at their Bramley Woods Nursery have a great opportunity to join the team as an Early Years

As part of your role you will;

• Ensure that all paperwork is completed and monitored within the room effectively
• Ensure that daily paperwork such as written observations, planning, learning journeys are relevant, linked to the EYFS and kept up to date on a weekly basis.
• Ensure parent/family partnerships are maintained. Communicate clearly and effectively with parents/carers sharing relevant information ensuring quality handovers. Ensure that you show an approachable, inviting, positive and involving demeanour towards all who enter a room.
• Liaise with colleagues when finishing a shift, advising them of any information that is to be relayed to parents when the child is collected or dropped off at nursery. It is paramount that information shared to other colleagues is on a need to know basis, respecting confidentiality.
• Ensure confidentiality of information of a child/family circumstances or other colleagues is kept confidential in and out of the setting.
• You should maintain regular communication with colleagues and other key people in the nursery.
• Ensure your working practice is to a high standard.
• Ensure relevant paperwork is in place prior to a new child starting the setting if you are the child’s key person.
• It should be your priority to safeguard children and their well-being. Knowing how to log a concern to the correct person and follow safeguarding procedures is paramount.
• Time keeping is paramount and it is essential that you are here five minutes prior to starting your shift. Flexible working is important with regards to being in different rooms/settings as and when required to ensure the effective operation of the nursery. You must attend all out of hours’ activities: staff meetings, training, parent’s evenings and nursery events.
• Undertake certain domestic jobs within the nursery, e.g. preparation of meals, snacks and cleansing of equipment, putting out bins and general cleaning.
• Presentation of your rooms needs to be of high standard at all times coinciding with the EYFS seven areas of learning. Remembering your presentation is exemplary and correct uniform must be worn always.
• Ensure that practice embraces equality of opportunity Policy at all times to ensure that everyone is treated as individuals with respect and full consideration. Ensure that the requirements of children with additional needs are fully supported via appropriate programmes, and to work with the relevant outside agencies/professionals to support the child’s needs.
• Assist in the provision of high quality environments to meet the needs of individual children from differing cultures and religious backgrounds and their respective stages of development. Teaching the children to respect and look after their environment.