Business administrator apprentice

Typical tasks could include:

📞 Answering phone calls and responding to emails from parents, staff and suppliers.

👋 Greeting parents and visitors when they arrive.

📅 Managing bookings and nursery places, including updating children's attendance records.

📝 Updating databases and records, such as contact details, attendance and emergency information.

💷 Helping with invoices and payments, such as recording fees and following up outstanding payments.

📁 Filing and organising documents, both electronically and on paper.

📊 Using Excel or other software to keep track of information and create simple spreadsheets.

👩‍💼 Supporting the nursery manager, for example preparing documents, letters, reports or meeting notes.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Communicating with parents, sometimes helping with queries about bookings, fees or nursery policies.

🔐 Handling confidential information about children and families appropriately.

🛒 Ordering office / nursery supplies and keeping track of stock.

🏥 Helping maintain records relating to things such as staff training, qualifications, policies and compliance.

🎓 As an apprentice, you'd also spend time learning business administration skills and completing your apprenticeship coursework / training.