Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship

St John the Baptist CE Primary and Nursery School

SHREWSBURY (SY4 1LA)

Closes in 13 days (Friday 2 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 8 April 2025

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Summary

St John the Baptist CE School in Ruyton XI Towns are recruiting for a Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship. Under the guidance of the teaching staff and nominated Teaching Assistants and within an agreed system of supervision, to implement agreed work / care / support programmes with individuals or groups, in or out of the classroom.

Wage

Competitive

Competitive wage offered

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The rate of pay is £7.55 per hour (apprenticeship wage) for 30 hours per week = £226.50 per week x 43.60 weeks per year term time plus holidays = £9875.40 per annum for the first year. The second year will be paid at National Minimum Wage for age.

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday hours to be agreed in advance between 9.00am and 5.45pm. On 3 of the 5 days per week when you will be required to work until 5.45pm. Term time only you will be paid for 43.60 weeks per annum.

30 hours a week

Start date

Monday 12 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

  • Attend to pupils’ personal needs and assist with the development and implementation of Individual Education / Behaviour / Support / Mentoring plans and Personal Care Programmes / Strategies
  • Establish constructive relationships with pupils and interact with them according to individual needs
  • Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all pupils
  • Assist with the planning of the curriculum by providing safe, creative and appropriate educational opportunities for all children within an inclusive environment, preparing activities, organising programmes and arranging equipment
  • Provide the Nursery Leader with objective and accurate feedback and reports as required, on pupil achievement, progress and other matters, ensuring the availability of appropriate evidence
  • Promote positive values, attitudes and good pupil behaviour, dealing promptly with conflict and incidents in line with established school policy and encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own behaviour
  • Implement programmes linked to local and national learning strategies e.g., literacy, numeracy, early years etc. as directed by the Nursery Leader and Reception teacher
  • Be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person

Where you’ll work

St John the Baptist Ce Primary and Nursery School
Church Street Ruyton Xi Towns
SHREWSBURY
SY4 1LA

Training

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

College or training organisation

JUNIPER 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 qualification
  • Support with English and maths (if required)
  • First Aid qualification
  • Work based learning
  • End Point Assessment

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • GCSE English and Maths or Level 2 FS (grade A*-C/9-4 or Level 2 FS)

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
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness
  • Willingness to learn and grow
  • Flexible and reliable

Other requirements

Are you able to travel to the school within advertised working hours? Enhanced DBS is required. See notes below • the school has a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and make clear that safeguarding checks will be undertaken • the safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification, and • whether the post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

About this company

Part of the Shropshire Academies Church of England Trust, our Outstanding Nursery and Early Years (Reception) classes (Ofsted 2019) are at the very beginning of high quality education offered by our school; we are open for pupils from 2 to 11 years old. St John the Baptist CE Primary School is a small village primary school with an outstanding integrated nursery, where the children are at the heart of everything we do. We are very proud of the family atmosphere we foster in and around school and the kind, caring, motivated pupils, who learn in an inclusive, nurturing and Christian environment. At St John’s, our key values of ‘Love, Hope and Respect’ permeate everything we do. We understand that all pupils are different and have a range of needs, therefore we ensure that their work is planned carefully to ensure they may reach their full potential.

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After this apprenticeship

  • On successful completion of the apprenticeship, there may be the opportunity to be offered a full-time employment within the school

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED

Diane Jones

diane.jones@junipertraining.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000314540.

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