Apprentice Early Years Educator
Three Bears Nursery and Preschool
LEEDS (LS16 5AB)
Closes in 12 days (Friday 2 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 16 April 2025
Contents
Summary
Three Bears Nursery is offering an apprenticeship to work within a child-led nursery, prioritising the continuous development of educators to promote the continual development and evolution of high-quality practice. You'll be part of a close, small team, gaining hands-on experience with our 0-2 and 2-4-year olds, supporting them to learn through play.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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40 hours working week.
4 full working day shifts and one half-day shift.
The nursery operates from 7.30am-6pm on a Monday to Friday, occasional attendance on evenings and weekends for training sessions or events.
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
- Supporting or leading educational activities and play in line with setting curriculum and national curriculum and statutory guidance.
- Preparing the learning environment with resources and displays.
- Observing and assessing children to help their learning.
- Supporting care routines of babies and young children.
- Maintaining strong parent partnership.
- Completing any training required of you within your role.
- Maintaining a professional code of conduct with regards to behaviours and attitudes, presentation and practice.
- This is not an exhaustive list.
Where you’ll work
226 OTLEY ROAD
LEEDS
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
Training will take place with Cliffe House Training Academy. You will have a mentor in our staff team who is a qualified early years teacher and a tutor from the training academy. Your tutor will carry out monthly visits to the setting to support learning, observe practice and support progress. You will be taken through the series of modules which will be presented to you on an online portal. You will have regular teaching and learning sessions with a small group of other students in the local area and an assessor who will observe your practice in the setting.
Requirements
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
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
Employment within the setting as a qualified early years educator.
We promote continuous professional development here at Three Bears and offer a wide spectrum of further developmental and career progression opportunities when you reach the end of your apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Three Bears Nursery and Preschool
Laila Taha
manager@threebearsnursery.co.uk
0113 275 9393
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000316031.
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Closes in 12 days (Friday 2 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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