Early Years Educator Apprenticeship

Working in a Childcare Setting

Working in a childcare setting with children ranging from ages 0-5.

Your Apprenticeship

• Duration: 13 months
• Apprenticeship will last for 13 months, where you will be supported by a dedicated assessor throughout your apprenticeship, as well as a mentor and other staff within the nursery.
• This apprenticeship requires dedication, commitment, and punctuality for you to be successful.
• Training will take place in the workplace.
• You will need to attend online training with your assessor for 1 day a week for the first 8 weeks of your 13-month apprenticeship, for your classroom-based learning, and you will be working within the nursery for the rest of the time with the support of your dedicated childcare assessor.
• You will complete a qualification in Paediatric First Aid.

Wage

• Wage: £12,480 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age.
• National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices.

Training Course

• Early years educator (level 3)

Hours

• Monday - Friday (shifts to be confirmed).
• 30 hours a week

Start Date

• Wednesday 16 September 2026

Positions Available

• 1

What You'll Do at Work

• Working in a childcare setting with children ranging from ages 0-5.
• Completing a variety of day-to-day childcare tasks to ensure that children’s needs, welfare, and education are catered for.
• Being able to liaise with external customers, parents, to provide a high level of service for the childcare setting.
• Creating innovative new ideas for engaging activities for the children.
• Supporting personal care, hygiene, and health of the children.
• Following the EYFS framework.
• Doing handover with the parents in the morning and afternoon.

Where You'll Work

• Ironmongers Hall
• Shaftesbury Place, Barbican
• London
• EC2Y 8AA

What You'll Learn

• 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.