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- Escritório em Gateshead
Early Years Apprentice.
Location: Gateshead, Tyne & Wear.
Salary: £15,747 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 opportunities for 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 15,000 national retailers’ discounts.
- Free parking.
We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Spring. Spare us five minutes, and we'll tell you what you need to know…
About Spring
Spring offers award-winning childcare services, as part of the national charity Action for Children. It's 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 children’s 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 children's 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, we're 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, we'd love to hear from you.
We work together to reach our mission to give children the best start in life.
Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.
Closing date: Wednesday 24th September 2025.
Interviews: will be held week commencing 29th September 2025.
Contact: If you need support with your application, please contact [email protected] quoting the Reference 11928.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Spring Oscars we're 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 are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd 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 this role.
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: We're sure you've got what it takes to join our ambitious team. If you're unsuccessful this time around, we'd 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 you'd rather we didn't do that.
Want to know more about Spring and Oscars?
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See below for further information about working with us:
Spring Early Years Career Pathway
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