Early Years Apprentice

You will undertake the Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship. Working within our nursery, learning on-the-job.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Help and support children’s development by showing a positive attitude and planning a range of learning/sensory activities.
• Carry out and support babies’ daily routine.
• Maintain good parent partnership relationships to ensure parents’ needs are met as well as children/babies.
• Work with others to share ideas and maintain a healthy stimulating environment.
• Have key children and be responsible for assessing their progress every month and setting targets/next steps for them to meet as well as supporting them meet those goals.

Requirements

• Study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
• Recognise when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and act to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
• Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (for example, food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, and accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
• Apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
• Teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
• Use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
• Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
• Undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
• Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
• Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
• Advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
• Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
• Support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
• Support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
• Assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
• Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
• Create inclusive and supportive emotional environment that enables the child to feel safe, secure, respected and experience a sense of wellbeing; maintaining and prioritising the individual child’s voice.
• Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
• Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
• Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
• Provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
• Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.
• Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Benefits

• Full-time position as a Nursery Practitioner.

Application Process

• Closes in 4 days (Monday 11 May 2026 at 11:59pm)
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About Tiny Steps Nursery

• Working within our nursery, learning on-the-job.

Contact

• The contact for this apprenticeship is: REAL SKILLS TRAINING LTD
• The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000029038.