Vacancy Early Years Educator Apprentice

Do you love adventures, playing in the mud, splashing in puddles, and exploring outdoors? Do you enjoy sharing stories, being creative, getting messy? How about singing and dancing to your favorite songs? Are you passionate about building friendships and being surrounded by happy, smiling faces? If so, we might have the position for you!

Safeguarding requirement:

• Adventure Playschool is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. It is a requirement of all staff that they share this commitment and follow the prescribed policy and procedures to continuously promote a culture of safeguarding across the whole organisation

Main duties:

• To learn and ensure that the welfare and safety of children is promoted within the setting and that any child protection concerns are always acted upon appropriately and immediately
• To learn and ensure records are properly maintained and updated, e.g. the daily attendance register, accident and incident records
• To keep completely confidential any information regarding the children, their families or other staff, which is acquired as part of the job
• Supported to liaise closely with parents/carers, informing them about the setting and its curriculum, exchanging information about children’s progress and encouraging parents’ involvement
• To learn about and contribute to and implement all the setting’s policies and procedures
• When appropriate to act as a key person to a group of children and be supported to ensure their needs are reflected in the routines and curriculum of the setting
• To learn how to teach children, offering an appropriate level of support and stimulating play and outdoor experiences in line with the setting’s ethos
• To learn how to ensure that children attending the setting receive a balanced and healthy diet
• To attend any conferences, training events or meetings, as identified by the manager and to keep up-to-date with current good practice
• To be supported to arrange and attend parent/carer meetings to allow two-way discussion of their children’s progress
• To contribute to and attend his/her supervisions and staff appraisal
• To contribute to and attend regular team meetings
• To learn how to contribute to drawing up long-term, medium-term and sessional curriculum plans which take into account the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), and to assist the manager in monitoring the effectiveness of the setting’s curriculum; this may include working with external professionals

This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties and the post holder will be required to undertake any other reasonable duties discussed and directed by the manager.

The post holder is also expected to be flexible and adaptable in their approach to fulfilling their duties.