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Nursery Apprentice - Early Years Educator
Barrow COLOURBOX MONTESSORI SCHOOL LTD
The Street (IP29 5AN)
Closes in 29 days (Friday 30 October 2026)
Posted on 11 September 2026
Summary
Colourbox Montessori are looking for a passionate and caring Apprentice Early Years Educator to join our nursery team and begin a rewarding career in early years education in their Barrow Nest site. You will contribute to a warm, safe, and engaging environment while working towards a nationally recognised childcare qualification.
Wage
£12,480 to £19,827.60, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage Minimum wage rates
Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
30 hours a week, shifts between 7.30am - 6pm, working days TBC.
Start date
Monday 2 November 2026
Duration
1 year 2 months
Positions available
2
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
Colourbox Montessori is a high-quality early years provider offering a nurturing, stimulating, and child-centred learning environment. Inspired by the Montessori approach, we support each child’s independence, curiosity, and development through carefully prepared environments and skilled practitioners.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Help ensure a high standard of physical, emotional, social, and intellectual care for all children
- Actively promote children’s welfare, safeguarding, and safety at all times
- Support outstanding childcare practice and develop your understanding of children’s learning and development
- Work collaboratively within the nursery team, sharing learning and supporting colleagues
- Follow and work within the governance of all Colourbox Montessori policies and procedures, ensuring best practice is consistently maintained
What we can offer:
- Competitive salary dependant on age and experience
- Offsite parking
- Uniform
- Additional service related holiday entitlement
- Training provided
- First Aid training
- DBS certificate
- Social events
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
What you'll learn
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- 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.
- 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.
Training schedule
Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. They will provide you with all of the on-the-job training you need to up-skill in your role, and your 20% off-the-job learning will be incorporated as part of your working day. You will be working towards the Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, which includes:
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- Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
- Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid or Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid
- Level 2 Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)
This will be delivered by your dedicated training provider, Realise.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English Language (grade 4)
- Mathematics (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
- Creative
- Friendly
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Organisation skills
- Patience
- Team working
Other requirements
- Must be prepared to work between the hours of 7.30am and 6.00pm
- Enhanced DBS certificate required
About this employer
Our nursery is across two sites in the lovely traditional village of Barrow, near Bury St. Edmunds. The children enjoy visiting the busy duckpond, waving to the passing horse-riders and seeing the latest knitted toppers on the nearby post box! Parking is usually available at the Village Hall nearby.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay. Training and promotional prospects available.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
Denise Mcguire
Denise.Mcguire@realisetraining.com
0333 444 3973
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000053042.
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Closes in 29 days (Friday 30 October 2026)
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