Early Years Educator Apprenticeship

Summary

Kinder Park Nursery is committed to provide an outstanding environment, where all children will reach their full potential. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our welcoming and motivated team as a Level 3 Early Years Educator apprentice.

Wage

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

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Training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Friday 9.00am - 4.30pm/5.30pm

38 hours a week

Start date

Thursday 1 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

Ensure that you are familiar with all key nursery policies and procedures. Especially safeguarding children, equal opportunities, promoting positive behaviour and health and safety.
To develop your role within the team.
To promote at all times good relations between staff members, parents and children.
Promotes the quality and ethos of the nursery.
To ensure the provision of a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children from differing cultures and religious backgrounds, and stages of development.
Support the children in independent and sociable eating. Ensure children’s individual dietary requirements are followed at all times.
To be flexible within working practices of the nursery. Be prepared to help where needed, including undertaking certain domestic jobs within the nursery e.g. preparation of snacks or meals, cleansing of equipment.

Where you’ll work

213 WARWICK ROAD
CARLISLE
CA1 1LJ

Training

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

College or training organisation

SYSTEM PEOPLE LIMITED

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

This Level 3 apprenticeship is expected to last a period of around 18 months. You will attend live tutor led sessions 2 days every month (1 day every other week which will be via Zoom) and participate in online interactive learning via our bespoke innovative platform OLLIE. Your Tutor will also visit you in the workplace for 1-2-1 Tutor sessions during the programme.

More training information

System People have fantastic pass rates and won the “BEST Training Provider Award” at the Golden Apples in 2019 and have been awarded a “Good” rating by Ofsted 2021.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4)

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths (grade 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
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

Apprenticeships are open to everyone of all ages, so perhaps you have just left school and would like to get straight into work? Maybe you are a working parent looking for a change? Or perhaps you are looking for a career break and want to retrain and start something totally new! All applications are welcome.

About this company

We are a 50 place nursery caring for children from 6 months to school age. We are situated in two large Victorian town houses which have been carefully and thoughtfully converted into one spacious building in Carlisle and we are only a 10 minute walk from the city centre. We are registered with Ofsted and we were delighted to receive our 4th consecutive ‘Outstanding’ inspection in July 2022 we are active members of the National Day Nurseries Association Kinder Park Nursery is committed to provide an outstanding environment, where all children will reach their full potential, through high quality care and education from our knowledgeable and dedicated staff team. To support our vision, honesty and trust is essential in achieving a motivated, respected and happy team, creating an inclusive environment for all. Everybody is an individual, therefore in order to gain peoples trust we must respect each other, be approachable, flexible, listen and have courage to be honest as we reflect, support and inspire each other, hence underpinning our vision and values.

Company benefits

We can offer training opportunities, support from a qualified and respected senior management team, staff uniform and a pension scheme.

After this apprenticeship

Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you may have the opportunity to be employed on a permanent basis. You may also have the opportunity to join our Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SYSTEM PEOPLE LIMITED

Joanna Splinter

joanna.splinter@system-people.co.uk

01228210018

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000307526.

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Closes in 12 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)

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