Childcare Apprenticeship
Level: 2
Employer: HILLTOP EARLY LEARNING LTD
Location: Hill Top Private Day Nursery
An early years apprenticeship combines on-the-job training with formal education, allowing individuals to gain practical experience while working with children in a nursery or early years setting.
Duration: 1 Year
Expected start date: 22/09/2025
Hours per week: 37.5 hours
Wage: (Annually)
Job role includes
- To provide a safe, caring, stimulating educational environment, both indoors and outdoors, at all times
- To deliver an appropriate play based Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum that enables children to make individual progress
- To help ensure the preschool nursery meets Ofsted requirements at all times
- To understand and work to preschool nursery 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 be a key person
- 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 the nursery and its curriculum, exchanging information about children’s progress and encouraging parents’ involvement
- To work in partnership with senior management to update and review the self-evaluation and improvement plan
- To undertake any other reasonable duties as directed, in accordance with the preschool aims and objectives


About employer
Hill Top Early Learning Provision limited trades as Hill Top Private Day Nursery which is located in Stalybridge, Cheshire.
- Early Years Practitioner Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard
- Training will be delivered within the workplace, your employer will allocate you 6 hours per week
- Progression available upon completion of apprenticeship programme
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience