Childcare Apprenticeship - Ruislip

Duties and responsibilities:

• To work with children


• To plan, deliver and evaluate a programme of activities suitable to the age range of the children attending the setting


• To support with the collection and drop off of school children from the local schools 


• To adhere to all safeguarding policies and procedures. To report any safeguarding concerns to the designated safeguarding officer or relevant agencies (safeguarding partnership/ Lado)


• To communicate and engage with the children at all opportunities


• To take observations on the children daily


• Ensure that you are monitoring the children’s development and identifying and addressing any gaps using our Footsteps system


• Ensure that the children have opportunities to go on outings and that this is done safely, by completing a risk assessment to be approved by preschool lead or deputy manager


• Ensuring that the children have opportunities to do cooking activities and that this is done safety, by completing a risk assessment to be approved by preschool lead or deputy manager


• To attend parent review meetings alongside the deputy manager for children in your key group


• To be a key worker and prepare the children’s records and targets in your group 


• To undertake certain domestic jobs within the nursery/preschool, for example, preparation of snacks, cleaning of equipment


• To record any accidents/incidents on the forms provided alongside the team leader / deputy manager, share these with parents and giving these to the administrator to log


• To be a good role model and promote a healthy lifestyle to the children


• To ensure that the environment is clean, stimulating and safe for the children


• Ensuring that the register is up to date as and when children arrive

To work as part of a team:

• To attend out of working hours activities, e.g. training, staff meetings, parent’s evenings, summer fayre and Christmas activities


• To develop your role within the team


• To participate in the training programme of a wide variety of students (i.e. placements and volunteers) by giving guidance and support


• To support and engage with all staff to ensure a good team ethos and an effective working partnership with all colleagues 


• To role model positive behaviour and language 


• Personal and professional development 


• To agree and complete all required mandatory and non-mandatory training 


• To assume responsiblity of your own CPD log 


• To liaise with parents, staff and other professionals


• To foresee the needs to special needs children and give physical, emotional, intellectual guidance as appropriate and liaise with the settings SENCO/manager


• To ensure children are collected on time by someone authorised by the parents to collect