Early Years Level 3 Apprenticeship - Torwood House Nursery School

TORWOOD HOUSE SCHOOL LTD

Bristol (BS6 6XE)

Closes on Sunday 1 June 2025

Posted on 5 March 2025

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Summary

Torwood House Nursery School is a privately run nursery offering excellent early years provision for children aged 0-5 years. Set in Durdham Park, we are only a stone’s throw from Durdham Downs and ten minutes from the city centre. We provide a warm and friendly environment for children and the staff, a place where everyone can grow and develop.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday, hours to be determined.

40 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 July 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

As a level 3 apprentice you will be a key member of the nursery team, your daily activities may include:

  • Planning and implementing fun and educational activities with the children.
  • Play alongside and with children to support their play.
  • Supporting children’s creative and imaginative experiences.
  • Maintaining development records on key children. 
  • Supervising children at rest times and at mealtimes. 
  • Contributing to and promoting health and safety. 
  • Ensuring the play area is clean and tidy at all times. 
  • Working closely with parents and providing feedback on their child.

Useful Qualities to have;

  • Friendly and approachable.
  • Patient, and caring.
  • The ability to interact positively with children and adults.
  • Flexible and willing to carry out a number of different activities within the job role.
  • Reliable.
  • Trustworthy.
  • Motivated.
  • The ability to work using your own initiative.

This position would suit a candidate with a bubbly, outgoing personality who is able to work on their own initiative and is prepared to commit to the work required for an apprenticeship.

Where you’ll work

Torwood House School, 27-29 Durdham Park
Bristol
BS6 6XE

Training

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

College or training organisation

ASPIRATION TRAINING 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

Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, which includes:

  • Level 3 Early Years Educator Diploma.
  • End-Point Assessment (EPA).
  • On the job training.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

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

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

  • Creative
  • Team working
  • Communication skills

Other requirements

If you are using public transport to get to this employer, please ensure you have researched the route and that a regular service is available.

About this company

Torwood Lodge Nursery is a caring and nurturing setting for children, from 0 to 5 years old. The nursery is set in a vibrant and welcoming building with onsite garden spaces that wrap around the nursery, located on the edge of Clifton Downs. They have a private outdoor play space as well as easy access to some of Bristol’s most beautiful and stimulating natural environments. The children's rooms are set across different levels of the building, enabling wide opportunity where children can play, learn and explore at different ages and stages of their early years. From birth to the age of 5, are grouped together by age and developmental stage throughout their time at the Nursery. Transitions between groups through the Nursery years are handled sensitively. Their last Ofsted inspection took place in May 2019; when they received the rating of ‘Outstanding’ in all areas. Ofsted state 'Staff provide an exciting array of stimulating resources for children to explore and experiment with'.

After this apprenticeship

  • Progression to a higher level qualification or full time employment may be available after completion of the apprenticeship.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ASPIRATION TRAINING LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000307575.

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Closes on Sunday 1 June 2025

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