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Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner Apprenticeship - Experience Required

Wimbledon Day Nursery · London · posted 3 November 2026

Wage
£17,472 a year
Hours
42 hours a week
Duration
1 Year 9 Months
Level
Higher (Level 5)
Standard
Early years lead practitioner (level 5)
Starts
2 January 2027
Closing date
1 January 2027
Positions
1

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  • Providing care: Ensuring children are safe and well, and responding to their need
  • Supporting learning: Facilitating play and learning opportunities, and developing children's speech, language, and communication
  • Leading practice: Participating in and leading daily routines, and promoting best practices for observation, assessment, and planning
  • Promoting diversity and equality: Ensuring all children are included and supported
  • Complying with safeguarding: Ensuring the setting complies with all safeguarding legislation, policies, and strategies
  • Reflecting and building on practice: Using professional enquiry and action research to contribute to the setting's pedagogical approach
  • Leading other practitioners: Supporting others in developing their own practice

Your training

Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner

  • The programme offers a blended approach including virtual classrooms, webinars, work-based tasks and online assignments
  • Candidates are not required to attend college
  • You will  receive one-to-one support and tuition from your apprenticeship tutor, this tutor will make in person visits to you at the nursery, or schedule online meetings every 5-6 weeks
  • You will  receive one-to-one support and tuition from your apprenticeship tutor, this tutor will make in person visits

Where it leads

  • It is up to you what you do when you have finished your apprenticeship
  • There may be an opportunity to stay on at the same company and progress to the next level of apprenticeship, or you may want to look for a new job or professional development opportunity

About Wimbledon Day Nursery

Wimbledon Day Nursery is about providing the best level of care and education for every child who comes through our door.
With a highly qualified team of staff and a management team who together have over twenty years of childcare knowledge we have managed to create a home away from home experience for your pride and joy. We believe in working closely with all families offering ongoing support and encouraging continual involvement in the nursery life of your child.

We understand that it is often difficult for parent’s to put their child into nursery which is why we hope Wimbledon Day Nursery will be the perfect setting in which you and your child feel completely safe and at home.

Skills they're looking for

Communication skillsOrganisation skillsTeam workingInitiativePatience

Entry requirements

  • Level 3 Early Years Educator Qualification Early Years (grade Pass) — essential

Where you'll work

  • 32 Montague Road, London, SW19 1TA

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