Location: Brighton
Apprenticeship: Level 3 – Early Years Educator

Hours: 8.45am-4.45pm Monday to Friday.

Pay: £5.28/hour (National Minimum Wage for apprentices)

Role: To work effectively as an integral part of the Nursery team, providing a stimulating and caring environment for pre-school children.

Job Description

Key Tasks

• Model excellent practice within the setting
• Plan and provide safe, appropriate, child-led and adult initiated experiences, activities and play opportunities in indoor, outdoor and in out-of-setting contexts, which enable children to develop and learn ensuring the consistent and high-quality delivery of the Early Years Foundation Stage
• Act as key worker for a group of children, by observing, monitoring and accurately recording each individual child’s development
• Promote the philosophy of ‘learning through play’
• Complete Summative Assessments to evidence positive outcomes in supporting children to reach their greatest potential
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with parents and carers, ensuring engagement of families from first point of contact with the nursery, taking into account parent and children’s views
• Support with transition arrangements in the nursery ensuring that children are supported in seamless transition within the nursery setting and to establish a professional relationship with primary schools
• Enable children to acquire self-help skills including dressing, feeding, toilet training and an awareness of personal hygiene
• Offer support to students, trainees and volunteers liaising with colleagues as required
• Support the Nursery Manager in ensuring that the nursery meets safety and hygiene requirements
• Maintain records and documentation which comply with statutory requirements

General

• Maintain confidentiality on all school matters at all times
• Work proactively and collaboratively with other members of the staff team
• Attend staff and team meetings as required

Successful applicants will need to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) enhanced clearance check.

This job description reflects the responsibilities of the post at the time it was written. However, tasks may vary without the character of the duties or responsibility level changing.

Our Apprenticeship package
Apprentices recruited to this role come on board with us and complete a Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification. The qualification will take around 18 months to complete. We have an experienced team that will support you along the way and you will have your own mentor.

To register your interest in this role, please send your CV using and a brief message using the contact form below.

Employer: Changing Education
Location: Work from home
Apprenticeship: Level 3 Business Administration
Hours: 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday
Pay: £10,000 to 16,000 a year

Role: The Administration Apprentice will be part of our back-office function, and responsible for inbound client queries, and basic administrative tasks managing our ticketing system. Working under the supervision of the Office Manager, you will join a busy back-office function, responsible for providing exceptional customer service to new and existing clients and communicating effectively with other departments in the organisation to resolve queries in a timely and accurate manner.

Main Duties

• Call handling and first-line response to customer queries
• Management of the ticketing system
• Dealing with finance related queries
• Administrative tasks
• Managing emails and correspondence effectively and professionally
• Assisting with diary management, including scheduling appointments and arranging meetings for internal staff
• Maintaining an organised data-base, filing systems and cloud-based storage
• Supporting the organisation of company events
• Assisting with departmental projects, as needed.

Person Specification

Our ideal candidate will be proficient at administrative tasks and responsibilities, and will have an interest in playing an important role within a back-office department. You will have an ambition to learn, to grow, and to be part of the growth journey of our exciting business that positively impacts hundreds of thousands of young people. You will be a good multi-tasker and be confident in working to deadlines.

Central to our People Strategy is our 5 core pillars of developing excellence. We therefore encourage you to apply, even if you do not meet all of the selection criteria.

Essential

• Strong communication skills
• Good computer skills
• Confident on the phones and speaking with customers
• Enjoy working in a team
• Can-do attitude and work-ethic

Desirable

• Interested in a technology/education business
• Administrative experience across all Microsoft Office suite and Google Shared Drive

Application Process

To apply for the role, please send through your CV, a cover letter and a short 2-minute video to recruitment@changingeducation.co.uk explaining why you would like to apply for the role, and what makes you the ideal candidate.

Our Apprenticeship package
Apprentices recruited to this role come on board with us and complete a Level 3 Business Administration qualification. The qualification will take around 18 months to complete. We have an experienced team that will support you along the way and you will have your own mentor.