Early Years Practitioner apprentice at GLENFALL PRE-SCHOOL GROUP

Closes in 10 days (Thursday 7 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

Join Our Team as an Apprentice! Are you looking to start your career in Early Years? At Glenfall Preschool, we’re looking for an Apprentice to join our team. Bring your enthusiasm, creativity, and dedication, and let’s make a difference together! Must enjoy messy play, drinking cups of mud tea and supporting children to learn through play!

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you\’ll do at work

Your duties will include:

• To provide a safe, caring, stimulating educational environment, both indoors and outdoors
• To deliver an appropriate play based Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum that enables children to make individual progress
• To help ensure the preschool meets Ofsted requirements at all times
• To understand and work to preschool policies and procedures, including how to deal with child protection issues appropriately and how to respond to incidents, accidents, complaints and emergencies
• To plan activities which ensure each child is working towards the early learning outcomes
• To ensure records are properly maintained, e.g. daily attendance register, accident and incident book, risk assessments
• To liaise closely with parents/carers, informing them about preschool and its curriculum, exchanging information about children’s progress and encouraging parents’ involvement

Where you\’ll work

GLENFALL SCHOOL
GLENFALL WAY
CHARLTON KINGS
CHELTENHAM GLOS
GL52 6XZ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

• Support babies and young children through a range of transitions.e.g moving onto school, moving house or the birth of a sibling
• Recognise when a child is in danger, at risk of serious harm or abuse and explain the procedures to be followed to protect them. Types of abuse including: domestic, neglect , physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
• Identify risks and hazards in the work setting and during off site visits.relating to both children and staff
• Demonstrate skills and understanding for the prevention and control of infection, including hand washing, food preparation and hygiene, dealing with spillages safely, safe disposal of waste, using correct personal protective equipment.
• Use equipment, furniture and materials safely, following the manufacturers’ instructions and setting’s requirements.
• Encourage children to be aware of personal safety and the safety of others and develop personal hygiene practices (including oral hygiene).
• Promote health and wellbeing in settings by encouraging babies and young children to consume healthy and balanced meals, snacks and drinks appropriate for their age and be physically active through planned and spontaneous activity throughout the day, both indoors and outdoors.
• Carry out respectful care routines appropriate to the development, stage, dignity and needs of the child, including eating (feeding and weaning/complimentary feeding), nappy changing procedures, potty/toilet training, care of skin, teeth and hair and rest and sleep provision.
• Communicate with all children in ways that will be understood, including verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Extend children’s development and learning through verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Encourage babies and young children to use a range of communication methods.
• Use a range of communication methods to exchange information with children and adults.
• Work with colleagues to identify and plan enabling environments, activities (both indoors and outdoors), play opportunities and educational programmes (both adult led and child initiated) to support children’s holistic development through a range of play, creativity, social development and learning.
• Implement and review activities to support children’s play, creativity, social development and learning and clear up after activities.
• Observe children, assess, plan and record the outcomes, sharing results accurately and confidentially in line with expected statutory framework and setting’s requirements.
• Use learning activities to support early language development.
• Support children’s early interest and development in mark making, writing, reading and being read to.
• Support children’s interest and development in mathematical learning including numbers, number patterns, counting, sorting and matching.
• Support the assessment, planning, implementation and reviewing (the graduated approach) of each baby’s and young child\’s individual plan for their care and participation.
• Work in ways that value and respect the developmental needs and stages of babies and children.
• Use feedback, mentoring and/or supervision to identify and support areas for development, goals and career opportunities.
• Work co-operatively with colleagues, other professionals and agencies to meet the needs of babies and young children and enable them to progress.
• Work alongside parents and/or carers and recognise their role in the baby’s/child’s health, well-being, learning and development.
• Encourage parents and/or carers to take an active role in the baby’s/child’s care, play, learning and development.
• Demonstrate how to share information with parents/carers about the importance of healthy balanced diets, looking after teeth and being physically active.
• Support babies and young children through a range of transitions.e.g moving onto school, moving house or the birth of a sibling
• Recognise when a child is in danger, at risk of serious harm or abuse and explain the procedures to be followed to protect them. Types of abuse including: domestic, neglect , physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
• Identify risks and hazards in the work setting and during off site visits.relating to both children and staff
• Demonstrate skills and understanding for the prevention and control of infection, including hand washing, food preparation and hygiene, dealing with spillages safely, safe disposal of waste, using correct personal protective equipment.
• Use equipment, furniture and materials safely, following the manufacturers’ instructions and setting’s requirements.
• Encourage children to be aware of personal safety and the safety of others and develop personal hygiene practices (including oral hygiene).
• Promote health and wellbeing in settings by encouraging babies and young children to consume healthy and balanced meals, snacks and drinks appropriate for their age and be physically active through planned and spontaneous activity throughout the day, both indoors and outdoors.
• Carry out respectful care routines appropriate to the development, stage, dignity and needs of the child, including eating (feeding and weaning/complimentary feeding), nappy changing procedures, potty/toilet training, care of skin, teeth and hair and rest and sleep provision.
• Communicate with all children in ways that will be understood, including verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Extend children’s development and learning through verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Encourage babies and young children to use a range of communication methods.
• Use a range of communication methods to exchange information with children and adults.
• Work with colleagues to identify and plan enabling environments, activities (both indoors and outdoors), play opportunities and educational programmes (both adult led and child initiated) to support children’s holistic development through a range of play, creativity, social development and learning.
• Implement and review activities to support children’s play, creativity, social development and learning and clear up after activities.
• Observe children, assess, plan and record the outcomes, sharing results accurately and confidentially in line with expected statutory framework and setting’s requirements.
• Use learning activities to support early language development.
• Support children’s early interest and development in mark making, writing, reading and being read to.
• Support children’s interest and development in mathematical learning including numbers, number patterns, counting, sorting and matching.
• Support the assessment, planning, implementation and reviewing (the graduated approach) of each baby’s and young child\’s individual plan for their care and participation.
• Work in ways that value and respect the developmental needs and stages of babies and children.
• Use feedback, mentoring and/or supervision to identify and support areas for development, goals and career opportunities.
• Work co-operatively with colleagues, other professionals and agencies to meet the needs of babies and young children and enable them to progress.
• Work alongside parents and/or carers and recognise their role in the baby’s/child’s health, well-being, learning and development.
• Encourage parents and/or carers to take an active role in the baby’s/child’s care, play, learning and development.
• Demonstrate how to share information with parents/carers about the importance of healthy balanced diets, looking after teeth and being physically active.

Early Years Practitioner Level 2. Training is delivered in the workplace, plus two or three College-based sessions throughout the course. This can be supported by some remote delivery if required.

Requirements

GCSE in:

• Maths (grade 1)

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

Skills

• Customer care skills
• Initiative

Other requirements

Please note this is a term-time only position.

About this employer

Glenfall Preschool is a committee run term time only preschool operating from within the grounds of Glenfall Community Primary School. We cater for children between the ages of 2 years and school age. We are small friendly and nurturing. We have a cosy relaxed playroom and a split-level garden containing balance equipment/role play, a mud kitchen a sand pit and water area. We are also able to use some of the school\’s facilities such as Forest School, field and playground.

Potential position upon completion of the apprenticeship.

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

GLOUCESTERSHIRE COLLEGE

GC Employer training and Apprenticeships

0345 155 2020

The reference code for this apprenticeship isVAC1000331806.

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Closes in 10 days (Thursday 7 August 2025 at 11:59pm)

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