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Working as part of a highly motivated team dedicated to providing a high standard of holistic care and development for all children attending the setting, safeguarding children and ensuring health and safety, etc. Working within current guidelines and legislation regarding the care and education of young children.
Wage: £13,520 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age. National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices. Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab).
Training course: Early years educator (level 3).
Hours: Full-time hours of between 08:45 am and 15:45 pm over 5 days, Monday to Friday, on a rota basis, so will vary week to week. 32 hours 30 minutes a week.
Start date: Monday 27 July 2026.
Duration: 1 year 6 months.
Positions available: 1.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- To work as part of a highly motivated team dedicated to providing a high standard of holistic care and development for all children attending the setting.
- To gain a good knowledge of the policies and procedures within the nursery for such events as illness, accidents, safeguarding children and health and safety, etc.
- Working within current guidelines and legislation regarding the care and education of young children.
- To work towards gaining the standard required under the Level 3 Child Care qualification held.
- Contribute to ensuring that mandatory paperwork (accident, incident, health and safety lists, risk assessments, medicine logs) are being completed in line with nursery procedures.
- To ensure that practice within the area of responsibility is consistent with the standards laid down in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
- To work with qualified room staff to create and maintain a stimulating and challenging environment which meets the diverse needs of all children attending.
- With the support and guidance of qualified staff, create and maintain a stimulating outdoor area supporting all areas of learning.
- With the support and guidance of qualified room staff, ensure development reviews are being completed in line with the statutory requirement, following the transition procedures set out by room leaders.
- To liaise and engage with parents who access the Nursery, to provide advice and support and answer questions in line with the settings.
- Key Person role, to develop personal skills and practice within the EYFS framework and standards and undertake any professional development as identified during performance monitoring at staff supervisions.
Where you'll work
The Meadows Community Pre School
Rotherham Road
Catcliffe
S60 5SW
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
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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 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.
Training schedule
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More training information
- You will gain an Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification at the end of the course.
- Your Skills coach will be there to support you throughout and visit your setting.
- You will complete your Level 3 Paediatric First Aid.
- Functional skills training if necessary.
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in: English (grade 4)
Desirable qualifications
- GCSE in: Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Other requirements
- You will need to pass a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for this position.
- You will need to be patient and have empathy to do this role, and have a passion to develop children's learning.
- Be able to commit to the hours and length of the apprenticeship.
Meadows Community Pre-School isn't just about the children. A welcoming and stimulating environment in which to enrich young minds and lives through a play to learn approach. We treat each child as special and individual; we allow the children's natural curiosity and enthusiasm to instil a real love of learning. We recognise that even the youngest children look, listen and learn most effectively through play activities. We promote confidence, respect for others, good manners, self-awareness and an interest in the environment in which they grow and learn in a natural way through freedom of movement and choice. We have a fun, fresh approach to early years development.
We take care of your little ones like they are our own
We want children to feel that this is their home from home, where they are nurtured and cared for. They learn through play without even realising it
Our pre-school is run by a dedicated group of trustees and staff and was established in 2015 when the Children’s Centre closed. We are registered with Ofsted and currently hold a ‘Good’ judgement following our latest inspection in July 2023. We use the Early Years Foundation Stage to underpin our curriculum to ensure that children make good progress towards the Early Learning Goals.
We are based in a purpose built building at the rear of Catcliffe Primary School and benefit from a secure indoor and outdoor environment.
friends and building foundations that last a lifetime.
https://meadows-community-preschool.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
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Room Leader
Team Leader
Section Leader
Eary Years Lead Practitioner level 5
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
Sharon Taylor
sharon.taylor@junipertraining.co.uk
07923 209225
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000022137.
Closes in 5 days (Monday 20 July 2026 at 11:59pm)
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