• Title Apprentice
  • Setting Day Nursery / Nursery School
  • Role Nursery Assistant / Early Years Assistant
  • Salary Staff socials,events,day off once a term for 100% attendance
  • Hours Apprenticeship
  • Location Greenwich, London

Job Summary

Date posted: 27 February 2025
  • Job Reference: Apprentice

We are a multi-award winning set of small, unique, family style pre-schools for 2-5 year olds. We now also have a creche that is open mornings Monday to Saturday for 1-8 year olds and holiday clubs for 2-8 year olds.

We are not a large corporate chain and pride ourselves in the partnerships that we have locally. Across our pre-schools we have won the Top 20 in the UK and London for small nurseries, recommended by parents. We have achieved the Early Years Quality Mark Award for as many years as we can remember! We achieved the Gold speech and language award, gained accreditation for Interactive Music Making and most recently won the national award from NDNA for Learning and Play! We will never rest though because we do as we teach our Crafty Wizards, we believe in the 'power of yet' and strive to offer better and learn more

Come and discover what makes Crafty Wizards unique. We make learning magical through creativity, we are a set of small pre-schools, not a large corporate chain. We understand how starting an apprenticeship can be a steep learning curve, but we are a small, friendly and supportive team that will support you on your journey. You need to be motivated to work with children, have enthusiasm and confidence to get involved and be part of the team. Together we can be successful! Some of our apprentices have become leading figures in our management team. Come and discover what makes us different.

Factors Essential:

  • Professionalism, time keeping, thirst to learn, confidence to ask questions and use initiative.
  • Passion for delivery high quality standards for children
  • Good communication skills – including both written and verbal
  • Good computer skills

Skills and attributes/personal qualities:

  • Can be empathetic towards children, staff and parents when required
  • The ability to work as part of a team as well as individually
  • Enthusiastic
  • Motivated
  • Approachable

Hours: 30-42.5 per week

Benefits:

  • Childcare
  • Company events
  • Company pension
  • Employee discount

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday 7am - 4:30pm for 39 weeks of the year (term time)

Education:

  • GCSE or equivalent

Skills / Qualifications:

  • Childcare experience or passion for caring and supporting children.