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Nursery Apprentice

Nursery Apprentice

The Two Counties Trust

Nottinghamshire

  • £5 per hour
  • Quick apply
  • Expired
Salary:
£5 per hour
Job type:
Full Time, Fixed Term
Apply by:
9 February 2022

Job overview

Grade and Salary: £5 per hours, increasing to National Minimum Wage for the post
                                               holders age after successful completion of the first year.  

Working pattern: 37 hours, year-round 

Contract term:        Fixed term apprenticeship for 18 months 


The role: 

Ashfield Plaza Day Nursery are looking to appoint a Nursery Apprentice to join our existing team. The Nursery Apprentice will contribute to a high-quality caring environment for children. This includes creating a warm, friendly and stimulating atmosphere in which the children can develop emotionally, socially and educationally through individual attention and group activities.


The person: 

The successful candidate will be a patient, empathetic and approachable person who works well within a team. The successful candidate will need to be able to communicate well with both adults and children, be well organised and have a good understanding of child development.


Why join us?

Our academy is part of The Two Counties Trust. This Trust has a forward-thinking HR strategy with all the professional benefits that this brings for staff. We are easily reached by public transport, and for those who drive, there is a large free staff carpark. We have some excellent facilities for staff and our students really want to learn and achieve. 


The environment:

A happy, healthy and supportive work environment is very important to us. We provide a free Employee Assistance Programme for all employees from day one of employment and conduct a wellbeing survey annually to ensure we measure distance travelled and that we continually improve. 

We are mindful of the impact of the pandemic, and our schools continue to take steps to be Covid secure. This includes our curriculum support staff maintaining a safe social distance and as such you will not be working in close contact with students if you secure this role.


We offer: 

  • Highly competitive pay and pay progression opportunities. Our salaries for leadership and teachers on the Upper Pay Scale and in receipt of a TLR are above national pay scales and our minimum hourly rate for support staff is £9.25. 
  • An array of employee benefits and lifestyle options including discounted healthcare, gym membership and extensive high street retail discounts. 
  • Entry to a career average pension scheme. 
  • A full induction and a strong commitment to your professional development and career  
  • Opportunities to experience and share practice in our partner schools across the Trust 
  • A stimulating, supportive and rewarding working environment with a dedicated team of like-minded professionals 
  • Excellent opportunities to develop your skills and experience and to progress your career 
  • We take the wellbeing and health of employees seriously. We have a range of support mechanisms and benefits available to employees and the Trust has signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter

The closing date for applications is: Wednesday 9 February 2022 at Midday.


We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references and successful completion of vetting procedures. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and candidates with a disability who meet the essential job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.








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About The Two Counties Trust

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  • The Two Counties Trust
  • Ashfield School, Sutton Road, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottingham
  • Nottinghamshire
  • NG17 8HP
  • United Kingdom
+44 1623 259 600

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Welcome to The Two Counties Trust

There are many reasons to choose our Trust as a great place to start or develop your career. We recognise the importance of happy, rewarded, and motivated employees and as such we have developed our HR and Professional Learning strategies to invest in people.

We are fully committed to supporting your career and professional growth through a range of routes both within the central team, externally, and across the Trust, offering extensive professional learning for all employees.

We have removed appraisal and appraisal related progression, recognising the limitations and changed the focus from proving to improving through professional growth which is focused on individual ambitions, enabling everyone to get a little bit better all the time.

We are committed to your welfare as an employee and alongside our own wellbeing and workload management arrangements we have signed up to the Education Staff Wellbeing Charter. If you need additional support on a range of matters, an Employee Assistance Programme is available to you from day one of employment.

We offer highly competitive pay, including some points above national rate, an array of employee benefits including extensive high street retail discounts, gym membership and discounted healthcare.

There are an array of centralised systems which are designed to save you time and avoid duplication of effort, these are based on the work of experts across the Trust, meaning that your time can be focused where you need it to be.

We hope you will join us in a great environment where you can work with a team of dedicated and like-minded professionals.

The Two Counties Trust

With secondary schools across Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, we are an ambitious Trust with a strong reputation. We have nine secondary schools, over 11,000 students and 1,500 employees.

We exist to provide our students with opportunities and experiences to enhance their life choices, making a positive contribution to the world we share. Collectively we serve our communities by educating and preparing our students for the next steps in their lives.

Leaders across the Trust are fully committed to striving for excellence in all that we do. We understand that families trust us each day with their most prized possession i.e their child, and we all are here to serve the students in our care.

Our values are:

Ambition:   We maximise our potential through striving for excellence.

Teamwork: We give 100% effort, displaying kindness and humility for the benefit of all.

Honesty:    We are respectfully open about our successes and areas for growth.

To find out more about us, please go to The Two Counties Trust website.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Trust in the near future.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note that it is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in Regulated Activity relevant to children.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS disclosure with a children's barred list check, receipt of references and successful completion of vetting procedures.

In accordance with the statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates to identify incidents or issues that may have happened, and which are publicly available online, which we may need to explore with shortlisted candidates.

The Trust's policies on Safeguarding and the employment of ex-offenders can be located at:  www.ttct.co.uk/our-trust/policies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and as such we are committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Candidates with a disability who meet the minimum job criteria will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

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