Apprentice Early Years Educator (37 hours)

Salary: Apprentice year 1 - £12,878 per year (£8.00 per hour)

Location: Daisy Chains and Poppy Fields, Scunthorpe

Hours: 37 Hours per week term time only

DBS: Yes Enhanced with Barred List Check

This is a Permanent, Part Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people?

Are you keen and enthusiastic to work towards being a level 3 qualified early years practitioner?

If so, we want to hear from you!

About the role
As an apprentice you will:

• work alongside experienced staff

• gain job-specific skills

• earn a wage and get holiday pay

• study towards a related standard (usually 6 hours per week)

With mentoring, support and training you will complete the following tasks:

• build positive relationships with children and their parents/carers.

• maintaining a safe, secure friendly and clean environment for children.

• contribute towards the planning of and delivery of teaching and learning for children in the settings.

• prepare meals/snacks for the children and ensure meal/snack times are a pleasant social and healthy experience for the children, whilst meeting individual children’s dietary requirements.

• develop skills in observing and assessing children’s learning and development to identify next steps for learning.

• identify children’s emerging need and learn strategies to support with this

Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.

Applicants are encouraged to visit to the Nursery to find out more about us. To do this please contact Val Taylor on 077175 86441 or val.taylor@northlincs.gov.uk

Closing date Friday 29th May

Interviews to be held on Friday 5th June

Candidates must be able to evidence their right to work in the UK. Please note the council does not hold a sponsor licence to sponsor people to work in the UK.

As an employer, we promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers. Recruitment to this post will follow our safer recruitment procedure which includes us requesting references prior to interview and a DBS check.

The Council

We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values – equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility – in all that we do.