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Level 3 Childcare Apprenticeship

LONDON
£12.5k/yr
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About the Role

Working in a childcare setting with children ranging from ages 0-5. You will be working towards an Advanced Diploma Early Years Educator. Your apprenticeship will last for 13 months. This apprenticeship requires dedication, commitment, and punctuality for you to be successful.

Wage

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

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Training Course

  • Early years educator (level 3)

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Hours

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

Start Date

  • Sunday 27 September 2026

Duration

  • 1 year 1 month

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 is catered for. This can include helping children to learn numeracy and language skills through games, taking part in singing, role playing, and storytelling and more
  • Being able to liaise with external customers and parents, to provide a high level of service for the childcare setting
  • Meets the care needs of the individual child, such as feeding, changing nappies, and administration of medicine

Where You'll Work

18 BRIDGE LANE
LONDON
SW11 3AD

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

Training will take place in the workplace. You will need to attend online training with your assessor for 10 days out 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.

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Essential Qualifications

  • GCSE in:
    • English (grade 4)
    • Maths (grade 4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other Requirements

You will need to attend online training with your assessor for 8 days out 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.

About this Employer

Bridge Lane Nursery is an OFSTED registered nursery with 66 places for children from 3 months to 5 years old. The Nursery is ideal for working parents, opening from 7am–6.30pm for fifty one weeks of the year. They offer full time day care.

After this Apprenticeship

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Developing into a level 3 educator, 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 the current nursery setting

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The contact for this apprenticeship is: SWIFT ACI Hannah hls@swiftcc.co.uk 02034751326

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000042343.

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Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Safeguarding
Risk assessment
Childcare

Location

18 Bridge Ln, London SW11 3AD, UK

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