Apprentice

Early Years Apprentice.

Location: Gateshead Tyne & Wear.

Salary: 15747 per annum.

Contract/Hours:Temporary Full Time 40 hours per week(with the potential of staying once qualified).

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays.
• 60% discount on childcare within our nurseries and clubs.
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunitiesfor free!
• Flexible maternity adoption and paternity packages.
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15000 national retailers discounts.
• Free parking.
  

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About Spring

Spring offers award-winning childcare services as part of the national charity Action for Children. Its our mission to be the best provider of outstanding quality early education to children throughout the UK that is accessible to all. We are focused on enabling young people to learn have fun and make friends in our bright engaging settings. That starts with creating a happy environment for our team. Join us and you can look forward to:

• A kind caring culture with an emphasis on wellbeing both physical and mental.
• Flexible working wherever possible we offer flexibility on hours and/or hybrid working.
• Lots of opportunities for training learning development including gaining qualifications.
• Excellent benefits that compare favourably to other employers in our sector.

A bit about the role

Spring Leam Lane caters for 76 children per day from babies to four years. We operate from an easily accessible purpose-built centre offering early learning and childcare to all families in Leam Lane (Gateshead) and the surrounding area. We have three spacious playrooms which all have direct access to out outdoor secure area. The learning environments encourage children to be curious discover and learn through the provision of natural and open-ended resources. The large garden area allows children to benefit from free flow play enabling them to learn from the natural environment and partake in physical exercise daily. We have a dedicated and highly qualified staff team who are passionate about childrens well-being learning and development and strive to ensure children reach their full potential.

What we are looking for:

Someone who shares our values and ethos in:

• Engaging children following their developmental needs and interests following the EYFS British values and enhancing cultural capital.
• Building partnerships with parents / carers families and professionals involved with the children to achieve the best possible outcome for each child.
• Being a keyperson supporting childrens individual needs keeping accurate records and regularly communicating with parents / carers.
• Supporting with love and nurture making every single day count for the children making everlasting memories.

What we need from you

In the role of Apprentice were ideally looking for someone who has:

• A passion to learn and develop whether you have had experience in early years or not.
• A good work ethic being able to use your own initiative to get stuck in.
• A positive attitude and a great team player to uphold a high-quality learning environment.

Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey wed love to hear from you.

We work together to reach our mission to give children the best start in life.

Good luck! We cant wait to hear from you.

Closing date: Wednesday 24th September 2025.

Interviews: will be held week commencing 29^th September 2025.

Contact: If you need support with your application please contactquoting the Reference 11928.

Diversity Equality and Inclusion

At Spring Oscars were dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within the organisation. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups.

Male staff are often under-represented within this sector and we would like to encourage more male applicants for our roles.

We arecommittedto safer recruitment practices to protectourservice users; therefore all applicants are expected tohaveanunderstandingof andcommitmenttosafeguarding best-practice.

Dont meet every single requirement

If youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with the job description wed love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role or another role within the Action for Children family.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for thisrole.

There are 5 sections for you to complete - Personal Details CV Supporting Statement & Information Equality & Diversity Submission & Declaration please refer to the Job Description when applying.

We also want to know what unique qualities you can bring to help us reach our vision for children and families.

Talent Pool:Were sure youve got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If youre unsuccessful this time around wed like to hold your details in case similar jobs come up that you might be better suited for. But feel free to let us know if youd rather we didnt do that.

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Job Description

See below for further information about working with us:

Employee Reward Booklet

Spring Early Years Career Pathway