Find an apprenticeship
Childcare Apprenticeship – Level 3 Early Years Educator (GM)
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Childcare Apprenticeship – Level 3 Early Years Educator (GM)
Location: Bolton, Lostock, Bolton
Closing Date: Tuesday 20 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Summary
This apprenticeship is ideal for someone with some prior knowledge and experience within a nursery or school setting, and especially someone passionate about childcare and early years, looking to further their career.
Wage: £12,480 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
Training Course: Early years educator (level 3)
Hours: The average working week will be between 30-40 hours, Monday - Friday. Shifts to be confirmed.
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience. What you'll do at work includes:
- Providing an excellent range of activities that ensures that the child learns whilst having fun
- Supporting children’s learning and development, including supporting planning and observations
- Preparing and maintaining the environment and resources for the children
- Preparation of food for breakfast, snack and afternoon tea
- Supporting children’s self-help needs
- Being creative and enthusiastic
- Following safeguarding rules
- Undertaking First Aid training as required
- Undertaking training as appropriate to meet any changes in standards or appropriate legal requirements as required
- Ensuring that all health and hygiene requirements are always adhered to
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Provider: SWIFT ACI
Training Course: Early years educator (level 3)
Course Contents: The training covers various aspects of childcare and education, including safeguarding, health and safety, communication, and curriculum development.
Training Schedule:
You will gain a Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification at the end of the course. All training is completed remotely via Teams. Online remote training sessions will take place once every week for the first 8 weeks.
Requirements
Essential Qualifications:
- GCSE in: English (grade 4)
- GCSE in: Maths (grade 4)
Skills:
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
About this employer
We aim to provide a safe, nurturing and enabling environment for children to grow and develop to the best of their abilities. We encourage children to learn through creative play to be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured. Our nursery opened September 2019 most of our resources are brand new. We have lots of storage to rotate our equipment and change our open plan rooms around to fit with our ever changing planning.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. After completion, you will develop into a Level 3 practitioner, with the potential of a permanent position upon successful completion. There is also the potential to go into other childcare-oriented roles, e.g., social work, teaching, managerial roles, etc.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SWIFT ACI
Hannah
Email: ha@swiftcc.co.uk
Reference Code: VAC2000057759
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills