Apprentice Nursery Assistant

About this opportunity

This is a great opportunity with Sunflower Children’s Centre, where full support, guidance, and great career progression is on offer for the right person.

A normal day would include
• To contribute to a programme of activities suitable to the age range of children in your area in conjunction with other staff.
• To assist in keeping accurate records of achievement files of the children, for parents.
• Support all staff and engage in a good staff team.
• Liaise with and support parents and other family members.
• To attend out of working hour’s activities, e.g. training, monthly staff meetings, parent’s evenings summer fayre, Christmas party, etc.
• To be flexible within working practices of nursery. Be prepared to help where needed, including to undertake certain domestic jobs within the Nursery, e.g. cleansing of equipment etc.
• To be responsible for maintaining a high level of tidiness & cleanliness of the room you work in.

• Specific Child Care Tasks:
• The preparation and completion of activities to suit the child's stage of development.
• To ensure that mealtimes are a time of pleasant social sharing.
• Washing and changing children as required.
• To ensure the provision of a high quality environment to meet the needs of individual children from differing cultures and religious backgrounds, and stages of development.
• To adhere to all Sunflowers policies & procedures at all times.

What you could go on to do
EYE L3

How you will be supported
Full training and support will be provided by our expert training and assessment staff at The Skills Company.

What will happen next
New applicants to The Skills Company who meet any basic entry requirements of the role will be contacted within two working days to be invited to meet a member of our team. You will then have the opportunity to find out:
• More about this vacancy and any others you are suitable for
• Any training you need to complete
• What the next steps will be

How you could get there
If you would be catching public transport for this role, visit the Journey Planner on www.tfgm.com to see how you would get there and how long it would take.

What you should have to apply

• Maths & English A-C preferred (to be discussed with applicants)

Personal Qualities

• Caring attitude
• Pleasant & happy personality
• Approachable
• Fun and enthusiastic
• Always willing to help others
• (the employer may require the successful candidate to complete a traineeship first)
• 100% committed

Skills

• Team Work - Support all staff and engage in a good staff team.
• Good Communication skills
• Ability to communicate well with adults and children
• Ability to write legibly and good presentation skills
• Computer literate
• Good organisational skills
• Demonstrate Creative ability
• Able to keep confidentiality