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Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner Apprenticeship
THE NURTURE NEST MULTILINGUAL LIMITED
Location: LONDON (SE1 4YF)
Closing Date: Tuesday 1 December 2026
Posted on: 8 October 2026
Summary
The Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner (EYLP) Apprenticeship is ideal for proactive, influential practitioners, working directly with children. These highly skilled professionals take an operational lead for the care, learning and development of all young children within their care and lead and support the practice of others.
Wage: £25,000 a year
Training
Course: Early years lead practitioner (level 5)
Hours: Shifts between Monday and Friday, 7:00am - 7.00pm. 40 hours a week
Start Date: Wednesday 2 December 2026
Duration: 1 year 8 months
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Providing care: Ensuring children are safe and well, and responding to their needs
- Supporting learning: Facilitating play and learning opportunities, and developing children's speech, language, and communication
- Leading practice: Participating in and leading daily routines, and promoting best practices for observation, assessment, and planning
- Promoting diversity and equality: Ensuring all children are included and supported
- Complying with safeguarding: Ensuring the setting complies with all safeguarding legislation, policies, and strategies
- Reflecting and building on practice: Using professional enquiry and action research to contribute to the setting's pedagogical approach
- Leading other practitioners: Supporting others in developing their own practice
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BEST PRACTICE NETWORK LIMITED
Training course
Early years lead practitioner (level 5)
What you'll learn
- Advocate for children through their child-centered approach
- Develop, model, and implement strategies to support the emotional, social, psychological, physical, and cultural needs of all children within the educational setting
- Support and promote children’s diverse speech, language, and communication development
- Engage in effective strategies to develop and extend children's learning and thinking
- Promote, model, and support children and families to develop a healthy approach to making choices relating to personal care
- Ensure plans fully reflect the individual development needs and circumstances of children
- Plan, carry out, and guide appropriate personal care routines for individual children
- Competently action and carry out safeguarding procedures
- Encourage all children’s participation, ensuring a sensitive, respectful, and effective balance within the adult and child dynamic to facilitate play opportunities
- Cultivate professional partnerships with parents, carers, colleagues, and other professionals
- Demonstrate the importance of the home learning environment
- Provide a dynamic, evolving, and enabling environment that reflects the current interests, motivations, and play of individual and groups of children
- Use current and contemporary knowledge, research, theories, and approaches to develop, enhance, and articulate their own pedagogical approach and practice
- Make use of formative and summative assessment, tracking children’s progress to plan for future learning possibilities
- Promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice
- Be a leaderful practitioner to support, mentor, coach, train, and guide colleagues in a range of educational settings
- Use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally to enhance their practice
- Identify and act upon own responsibilities in relation to health and safety, prevention and control of infection, carrying out risk assessments and risk management processes
- Apply the principles of sustainability and segregate used resources for reuse, recycling, and safe disposal
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Requirements
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in: English (grade 4)
- Level 3 Early Years Educator Qualification in: Level 3 Early Years Educator (grade Pass)
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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
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
- Safeguarding Statement: This authority/organisation is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, requiring all staff and volunteers to uphold this commitment. An enhanced DBS will be required as part of safer recruitment.
- Right to Work & Residency Requirements: Applicants who are not UK nationals must meet apprenticeship funding eligibility rules, including having lived in the UK or EU for at least 3 consecutive years prior to the start date. A valid visa must not expire within 18 months of the apprenticeship start date. A share code will be required to verify right to work and study in the UK.
About this employer
A caring, inclusive nursery in the heart of London, multilingual, EYFS-aligned, and rooted in British values. We nurture curiosity, kindness, and confidence in every child. https://www.thenurturenestnursery.co.uk/
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay. The Early Years Lead Practitioner Level 5 is the equivalent to a foundation degree. You could progress to a top-up degree and Early Years Teacher Status.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is: BEST PRACTICE NETWORK LIMITED
Reference code: VAC2000058036
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Closes on Tuesday 1 December 2026
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