Role: Early Years Apprentice

Location: Norwich, Norfolk

Salary:  £15,747 per annum

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

Closing date: Midnight on Thursday the 28th of August 2025.

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 Milecross is passionate about providing the best possible start for children aged 3 months- 5 years, adapting and growing to meet each child’s needs. We strive to create a love of reading within our setting, supporting children and families through our reading room and well thought out learning opportunities. Our curriculum is all about fostering independence, supporting children to be leaders of their own learning to set them up for school and beyond. We are committed to ensuring that children with SEN are highly supported and included in everything that we do, supporting children to learn about being individuals and celebrating even the smallest of achievements.

We are looking for an Early Years Apprentice, to support the children to explore and discover their own creativity, individuality, and imagination within our nurturing, engaging and safe environments.

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. 

Contact: If you need support with your application, please contact our Recruitment Team at RecruitmentService@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting the Reference 11779.

We'll be happy to give you any support you require. 

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.   

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Job Description

See below for further information about working with us:

Employee Reward Booklet

Spring Early Years Career Pathway