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Early Years Educator Apprenticeship

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About the Role
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. Also, being able to liaise with external customers, parents, to provide a high level of service for the childcare setting.
What You'll Do at Work
- Creating fun, engaging, and safe environment for the children
- Teaching within the EYFS requirement
- Partaking in a range of indoor and outdoor activities
- Supporting the children with a range of self-care needs such as feeding and personal hygiene
- Communicating with other team members and parents
Where You'll Work
2B ASHGROVE ROAD
ILFORD
IG3 9XE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training Provider
LEAPING MAN LEARNING LIMITED
Training Course
Early years educator (level 3)
What You'll Learn
Course Contents
- 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.
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Training Schedule
Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship Standard:
Level 3 Early Years Educator Qualification
Your apprenticeship will last for 14 months
You will be supported by an assessor throughout your apprenticeship, as well as a mentor within the nursery
You will complete a qualification in paediatric first aid
Essential Qualifications
GCSE in:
Maths & English (grade Grade C/4 or above)
Functional Skills in:
Maths & English (grade Level 2)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Other Requirements
- Apprenticeship is 14 months in duration
- Working in a nursery setting full-time, min 30 hours a week
- Attending online group classroom sessions 1 day a week for the first 8 weeks
- Updating online portfolio in a timely manner to meet deadlines
- Training Schedule will be communicated once Candidate is successful
About Kiddy Care Nursery
Kiddy Care Nursery is an ideal childcare provision which caters for children learners to make a start in the educational world. We help children attain all the necessary skills for them to make a good and secure start in full-time education. We welcome children from all ethnicities and diversities. We ensure that children become confident, creative, and have a positive outlook. We provide an enriched environment to support their learning and inquisitive nature. Children often need their learning to be scaffolded by a significant other, and therefore, we have qualified staff who use the key persons system to their advantage to monitor the progress children are making and to build good, strong relationships with the parents. Alongside this, we take into consideration some key theorists who influence our education systems today.


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At Kiddy Care Nursery, we follow a robust recruitment policy which allows us to choose the most suitable person to work with us. We take matters of safeguarding seriously and ensure that all the children in our care are safe and healthy. We have a cook onsite who helps us provide healthy meals throughout the day. Throughout the year, we arrange various trips to selected museums, theme parks, farms, libraries, holy sanctuaries, and other topic-related places. We also have some special days where Zoo Lab comes in with their pets to show the children how to care for them. Children also have a special book in which we gather evidence of their work and progress. We also enjoy giving home learning for some fun time at home. We are also a 'Good' from Ofsted.
Your Earnings
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Developing into a Level 3 practitioner, with the potential of a position upon successful completion. Other prospects could include applying for:
- Room leader positions
- Possible management training
- Springboard into primary education
- Paediatric nursing
- Continuous development in current nursery setting
Contact
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LEAPING MAN LEARNING LIMITED
Stuart Beer
sb@swiftcc.co.uk
07875009366
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000039619.
Closes in 29 days (Saturday 29 August 2026 at 11:59 pm)
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