Early Years Level 3 Educator Apprenticeship - Three Bears Nursery & Preschool - Headingley
Three Bears Nursery & Preschool Headingley
Headingley (LS16 5AB)
Closes in 12 days (Friday 2 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 16 April 2025
Contents
Summary
Three Bears nursery is a home-away-from-home, curiosity approach accredited setting who are seeking a fantastic apprentice to join their team. The position is full-time, earn as you learn, completing your apprenticeship at nursery with face-to-face early years tutors, no need for college. Progression to level 3 is available.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday. Shifts TBC.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 1 June 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- Create awe and inspiration for the children you care for through creating exciting activities and teaching them new skills
- Gain new knowledge, skills and behaviours throughout your apprenticeship to become a qualified practitioner
- Support all their daily needs, from helping them at mealtimes, supporting their sleep needs and their well-being too
- Teach them through a range of play types, both indoors and outdoors, as well as taking them on outings to enhance their cultural experiences
Where you’ll work
Three Bears Nursery Preschool
226 Otley Road
Headingley
LS16 5AB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CLIFFE HOUSE DAY NURSERIES 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
- All training will take place at the nursery, at your place of work
- This will be delivered to you face-to-face, with your own dedicated tutor, whether one-to-one or in small groups with other students. Group sizes are a maximum of 4 students
- Your coaching sessions happen once a month or more often if needed, the training is unique and tailored to your learning needs, we come to you!
- Training schedule is unique to each student to meet their individual needs
- Support is always here, this is something we pride ourselves on and the consistency of the same tutor throughout your course
More training information
- Cliffe House Training are a unique training provider who has developed their academy to ensure that support is always there for its learners
- They value their delivery of face-to-face learning sessions, unique to you as the student
- You will receive your own online learning platform to submit and receive your work, and everything is developed in a manageable way, all learning is completed in your contracted hours
Requirements
Essential qualifications
Other in:
- Early Years Practitioner (grade Pass)
Desirable 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this company
Three Bears Nursery is a home-away-from-home, Curiosity Approach accredited setting and has just gone into it’s 20th year in the business. It was opened by Jean and Kasim Taha in 2005 and is currently run by the family, with daughter Laila Taha acting as the Nursery Manager and a Managing Director. The setting is a 50 place one catering from 0-5, and values time outdoors, the voice of the child and a calm and safe working environment where both educators and children alike are able to thrive through early education each day.
After this apprenticeship
This can lead to a career as a head of room/senior practitioner, deputy or nursery manager as well as many other early years roles.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CLIFFE HOUSE DAY NURSERIES LIMITED
Tori Doherty
tori@cliffehousetrainingacademy.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315935.
Apply now
Closes in 12 days (Friday 2 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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