Early Years Apprenticeship

Bella’s Childcare Ltd

CAMBRIDGE (CB24 3BT)

Closes in 18 days (Tuesday 13 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 27 February 2025

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Summary

A small, friendly, home-from-home day nursery is looking for an apprentice to join our team working with children aged between 6 months - 5 years old.

Wage

£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Salary is reviewed after the first year of studying the apprenticeship. Overtime is paid when attending staff meetings, training days.

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday on a rota shift basis upto 8 hours per day between 8am - 6pm. College attendance is on a Friday.

38 hours a week

Start date

Monday 19 May 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

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

The candidate will enjoy spending time with children and helping them grow and learn. Daily learning takes place through play, key persons play and observing their key children to ensure they are learning and getting the best from their early education. Care plans take place, such as nappy changing, bottle-feeding and assisting the children in settling to sleep.
Practitioners will assist in providing a healthy morning and afternoon snack for the children and assist in lunch periods where the children have a packed lunch.

Where you’ll work

101 HIGH STREET
LONGSTANTON
CAMBRIDGE
CB24 3BT

Training

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

College or training organisation

CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL 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

The Apprentice will have a work mentor as well as attend Cambridge Regional College weekly.

Extra training is provided by the nursery, such as First Aid, Safeguarding, FGM, Prevent, Health and Safety, Fire Safety, E-Safety, Food Hygiene and more. This training is paid for and provided by the nursery.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4 or C)
  • Maths (grade 4 or C)

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
  • IT skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this company

Bella's Childcare Ltd registered in 2015. The nursery employs nine members of childcare staff. Of these, seven hold appropriate early years qualifications at level 2 or above. The nursery opens Monday to Friday from 8am until 6pm all year round, apart from one week in August and over the Christmas period. The nursery provides funded early education for two-, three- and four-year-old children and cares for children aged 6 months to 5 years.

After this apprenticeship

Candidates can continue their route in childcare, working in day nurseries to include roles such as Room Leaders, Deputy Manager, Managers.
Candidates can move on to studying further or progress into working in hospitals in neonatal units, community nursery nurses working alongside the community nursing team, social workers, and teachers.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CAMBRIDGE REGIONAL COLLEGE

Camilla

01223 418778

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000306438.

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Closes in 18 days (Tuesday 13 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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