Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship

Summary

Are you passionate about working with young children? An excellent opportunity is available to do a Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship at Almners - Rainbow Nursery in Chertsey.

Wage

£22,738 a year

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Annual pay between £20,295 to £24,523 dependent on age and contracted working hours.

Training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Hours

4 days a week (32 hours for 16-17 year olds) 4 days a week (36 hours for 18+) Nursery is open 7.30am-6.30am so shifts are between those hours, e.g., 7.30am-5.30pm, 8am-6pm, or if under 18 then 8am-5pm/9am-6pm, etc.

36 hours a week

Start date

Wednesday 1 October 2025

Duration

1 year 3 months

Positions available

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

Be fully conversant with Rainbow’s policies, procedures and philosophies, the requirements placed
upon us by the EYFS, the HSE, Environmental Health, etc, and to always work to them.
Proactively care for and educate the children for whom you are responsible.
Set a good example all times eg by:
Exuding a positive demeanour,
Adhering to and promoting our policies and procedures,
Having a clean, neat and tidy appearance whilst conforming to our uniform policy,
Showing a ‘can do, solution-minded’ attitude,
Influencing other staff to also seek improvement and find solutions
Promoting Rainbow’s interests and aims,
Seeking improvement in all areas
Pay great attention to detail.
When faced with a challenging interaction be polite but appropriately assertive.
Maintain the confidentiality of all and any confidential information that you encounter at Rainbow.
Perform designated cleaning duties to a consistently high standard.
Ensure that all records are accurate and up-to-date. This includes registers, observations,
assessments, food control forms, accident records, behaviour records, rotas, cleaning schedules, etc.
Helping the business to meet its needs by:
Covering for your supervisor/s, sometimes at short notice.
Covering in other areas (eg catering, etc) when necessary.
Undertaking any other duties deemed appropriate by the business to help ensure that we
always fulfil our commitments to customers, children, other staff, and our legal responsibilities.

Where you'll work

ALMNERS PRIORY
ALMNERS ROAD
LYNE
CHERTSEY
KT16 0BH

Training

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

College or training organisation

NORTH EAST SURREY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY (NESCOT)

Your training course

Early years educator (level 3)

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What you'll learn

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 be in person at Nescot College (Epsom - KT17 3DS) every other Friday.

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

Other requirements

The nursery is located in a area that is hard to get to by public transport so access to a car is essential.

About this company

Rainbow Nursery & Preschool is a family owned nursery comprising ten classes in two beautiful buildings. Set in five fabulous acres, we place a strong emphasis on the outdoors, offering gardens for different age groups, a farm, planting allotments, Forest School, a galleon ship, telly tubby hill, maze, double-decker bus and more. There are three under 2s rooms for our littlest ones, two for our 2 year old Discoverers and five preschool classrooms for little Explorers and Adventurers. Our vision is To Nurture, To Inspire, To Have Fun! Early Years are so precious and important - what you do here sets up a child for life, so come visit us and see the Rainbow family in action. Rainbow, at Almners Priory since 2002, has a strong management and senior team to provide you with professional support and development.

Company benefits

Free and extensive development programme Level 2 and 3 EYE qualification training Free onsite parking Paid overtime, training, meetings and sparkle days 40% discount for staff children's place Pension scheme Fun events

After this apprenticeship

Nursery Manager
Team Leader/Supervisor
Teaching Assistant
Further Training - Level 5 qualification

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ALMNERS (CHILDCARE) LTD

Rachael Gurney

rachael@rainbownursery.com

01932570888

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318014.

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Closes on Tuesday 30 September 2025

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