Early Years Educator Apprentice
Brooklands Cove
Hertfordshire (EN6 3BW)
Closes in 26 days (Friday 30 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 2 May 2025
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Summary
The Apprentice will support the day to day running of the setting and a nominated key worker, receiving 1:1 training on how Brooklands Cove plan for, observe and assess children’s development.
- Wage
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£19,760 a year
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 7.00am - 5.00pm with Wednesday - Day off.
Day off would via a rota on a weekly basis. Set days off may be considered.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 16 June 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- Work with the team to provide a safe, caring and stimulating environment for all children in our care
- To assist in providing a range of stimulating and exciting activities for the children which encourage independence, motivation and an eagerness to learn through play
- To work as part of the team to ensure that the Early Years Foundation Stage is followed at all times
- To support the care needs of children such as nappy changing and feeding
- To work as part of a team to ensure that our setting is clean, tidy and inviting. As a pack away setting this includes some manual handling to ensure the hall is put away at the end of each day
- As an Early Years apprentice, you will have regular contact with your nursery mentor
- You must engage with and follow any targets set in order to ensure progression
Where you'll work
5th Potters Bar Scout Headquarters
Mutton Lane
Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 3BW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE
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
- Working towards completing Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship Standard
- Work based learning with regular planned sessions with your Assessor
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9)
- Maths (grade 4-9)
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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
- Manual Handling
- Caring
- Approachable
- Health & Safety conscious
- Willing to learn
Other requirements
The rota is flexible and if apprentices would prefer to work 8 hour days across 5 days this will be considered. Considerations will also be made if the apprentice chooses to attend college day release instead of remote learning. Working in a pack away setting can be hard work! We have lots of measures in place to avoid heavy lifting as much as possible but it can be tiring. Early starts and long days can also take their toll so this role does require a person who is really passionate about a career in early years.
About this company
We are a newly registered day nursery in Potters Bar, recently expanding from an Outstanding childminding setting of 5 years. We work across two main rooms but regularly practice ‘family grouping’ ratios and work together as a whole setting. We have space for a maximum of 30 children. We are based in a scout hut near the Furzefield Leisure Centre and surround by play areas, a large field and woodland area. As we previously spent a lot of time out and about as childminders, we do try to access these local areas as much as possible. We share the space with the scout group but have sole use of the premises between 7am and 5pm Monday-Friday. We are a pack away setting, the manager opens and sets up the setting for 7am opening and we work as a team to put all furniture, resources, and equipment away by 5pm each day. We also have access to two gardens, one of which is solely used by us and does not need to be packed away. Our approach to early learning is child led, open ended and making use of natural/found/real life resources as much as possible. We have moved away from extensive, unnecessary paperwork and focus on our relationships with parents and open communication to support children’s development. We are a very friendly team and both the manager/owner and deputy manager started their careers as apprentices with the manager also completing a level 5 with Hertford Regional College so we are really keen to support new learners and help them progress to their full potential.
After this apprenticeship
- There will be opportunities for progression and a permanent position subject to performance
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE
The Apprenticeship Team
apprenticeship@hrc.ac.uk
01992411572
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318567.
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Closes in 26 days (Friday 30 May 2025 at 11:59pm)
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