Nursery Apprentice

First Place Nurseries Ltd

Bushey (WD23 3AQ)

Closes in 26 days (Tuesday 20 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 14 April 2025

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Summary

​​Come and join our fun teams where you will learn on the job and be fully supported along the way. You will be given a mentor and have regular meetings to support. We are a small nurturing company of three nurseries who will encourage you to fly high and achieve your dreams.

Wage

£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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£8.00 per hour starting salary

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Shift pattern between opening hours of 8am and 6pm. Days TBC.

40 hours a week

Start date

Sunday 1 June 2025

Duration

1 year

Positions available

1

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

  • Provide safe, high-quality care and activities for children
  • Recognise and meet the needs of individual and group requirements
  • Support children's physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development
  • Familiarise yourself with essential policies like safeguarding, equal opportunities, and health and safety
  • Follow all nursery guidelines and procedures, including handling medicines, allergies, and emergencies
  • Collaborate with early years professionals, such as health visitors and special education services
  • Support room coordinators and other staff members as required.
    Work closely with parents, encouraging their involvement in their child’s development
  • Provide daily feedback and updates to parents
  • Handle parent concerns promptly and professionally
  • Keep the room tidy, organized, and safe
  • Help with ordering, cleaning, and maintaining resources and equipment
  • Ensure displays are appropriate and kept up to date
  • Assist with risk assessments and ensure proper labelling and signage
  • Ensure the safety and cleanliness of children and nursery premises
  • Maintain accident and incident books, child registers, and other necessary records
  • Follow all health and safety procedures, including regular assessments
  • Keep all required paperwork up to date, neat, and accurate

Where you’ll work

Falconer Rd,
Bushey
WD23 3AQ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

OAKLANDS COLLEGE

Your training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Equal to A level

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.
  • 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.

Your training plan

  • Early years educator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 9-4)
  • Maths (grade 9-4)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Patience
  • Polite
  • Punctual
  • Eager to learn

Other requirements

Radlett is quite remote, train station is 20 minute walk and buses are 1 per hour. You would need to bring a packed lunch as nothing near enough to walk to in a lunch hour. Bushey has good public transport links and shops near by.

About this company

We are a small nurturing company who wants everyone to achieve their best. You will be fully supported throughout with many opportunities for growth and promotion.

https://www.firstplacenurseries.com/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

-Discounted childcare for staff -Pension scheme -Free car parking -Open 50 weeks a year - 35 days holiday -Birthday as an additional days holiday -Employee Assistance Programme -Welcome bag for new colleagues

After this apprenticeship

  • Always opportunities for growth and promotion within the company and we actively encourage this
  • Some of our employees have worked their way up through positions starting as apprentices and now nursery managers
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Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

First Place Nurseries Ltd

Donna Shadbolt or Angela Pargetor

enquiries@firstplacenurseries.com

07590229673

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000300183.

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Closes in 26 days (Tuesday 20 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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