Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship

Early Birds Childminding

HATFORD Nr FARINGDON (SN7 8JF)

Closes in 10 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 15 April 2025

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Summary

We are offering an exciting opportunity to work with colleagues whose main goal is to provide support, encouragement and learning to children in their care whilst you are undertaking your Early Years apprenticeship. We are a friendly supportive team who put children at the centre of all we do.

Wage

£13,741 a year

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This is the FTE salary, actual salary is £10041.50 based on Term Time only which equals 38 weeks. There may be additional hours available during holiday periods

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Term Time only, Shifts to be confirmed.

35 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

Working with Children and the Curriculum:

  • Facilitate fun, age-appropriate play and learning opportunities
  • Ensure that the children’s learning, development and care needs are continually met
  • Provide support, encouragement and scaffold learning in all areas of the children’s development
  • Know about the seven areas of learning from the EYFS Framework and use these to enhance children’s play
  • Supervise outdoor play activities in all weathers
  • Contribute towards the planning, preparation and delivery of an engaging curriculum
  • Observe children and monitor their progress
  • Support inclusivity, ensuring that all children’s needs are being met equally, regardless of their background, gender, ethnicity, age, needs and abilities
  • Be aware of any special needs that children may have and share this information confidentially with other members of staff, as detailed in the employer’s policies
  • Be a good role model to the children at all times
  • Be in sole charge of children, as required (maximum of two hours per day, within legal ratios)

Working with Parents and Colleagues:

  • Share details key to children’s learning, progress and next steps with other staff members and the children’s parents/carers when appropriate
  • Work alongside other colleagues, communicating in a friendly and sensitive manner
  • Demonstrate a professional attitude when communicating with parents/carers and colleagues
  • Offer support and make suggestions, where appropriate

Safeguarding/Health and Safety:

  • Follow the setting’s safeguarding procedures so that children are kept safe and well
  • Share any safeguarding concerns immediately with the setting’s Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)
  • Keep all children safe and healthy through adequate supervision, as well as following policies and procedures
  • Administer and record first aid, as required
  • Meet children’s dietary needs, including allergies, by helping prepare appropriate, healthy snacks, meals and drinks
  • Help ensure all toys and equipment are kept safe and clean

Paperwork/Admin:

  • Be fully aware of the employer’s policies and procedures and adhere to them at all times
  • Complete any necessary paperwork/admin, as required by the employer
  • Observe and feed back on children’s learning and progress, including contributing towards 2-year-old progress checks

Where you’ll work

TIHANY
HATFORD Nr FARINGDON
SN7 8JF

Training

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

College or training organisation

NEW COLLEGE SWINDON

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 training will take place via on-the-job training four days a week in the setting, with one day a week at New College Swindon 
  • The training will focus on the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours required to complete the Early Years Practitioner Level 2
  • You will also be expected to do 6 hours of off-the-job training, which will be paid

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • 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
  • IT skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Team working
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness
  • Must like Dogs and Cats

Other requirements

The applicant must be over 17 due to insurance requirements Qualifications/Education Essential or willing to complete: • Must have a Level 2 qualification • Full 12-Hour Paediatric First Aid Certificate • Enhanced DBS Certificate • EY2 Check • Letter of ‘Suitability’ from Ofsted/agency • Food Hygiene Certificate (All required before children can be left alone with an assistant) • Full, clean driving licence Desirable: • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development or training relevant to the role

About this company

This is an established Child care setting located at Hatford within the Faringdon district

Company benefits

(where eligible).

After this apprenticeship

  • Possibility to be taken on as a permanent member of staff after successful completion of apprenticeship 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NEW COLLEGE SWINDON

Louise Crossley

Louise.Crossley@newcollege.ac.uk

07355677023

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315912.

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Closes in 10 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)

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