Early Years Apprentice
The Lighthouse Nursery (Bright Stars)
UK ( CV32 5JF)
Closes in 13 days (Friday 23 May 2025)
Posted on 9 May 2025
Contents
Summary
Are you a passionate early years practitioner looking to continue to develop your career in an award-winning nursery setting? The Lighthouse Nursery has a great opportunity to train as an Early Years Educator and gain your level 3 whilst supporting children's learning, play and development and building key relationships.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week. Times to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 26 May 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
The Lighthouse Nursery, part of the Bright Stars group, are looking for an apprentice to join their outstanding Ofsted rated nursery. The Lighthouse Nursery is very well resourced with a wide range of both indoor and outdoor play equipment including books, bikes, scooters, role play toys, musical instruments, creative tools, ICT resources, construction materials, sand, water, messy play and much more!
Apprentice responsibilities:
- Supporting the Practitioners to assess, plan and observe to support learning and development
- Planning playful opportunities to support learning and development
- Safeguarding children and following policies and procedures to maintain, safe, secure healthy and hygienic environment
- Liaising with parents to share information to support health, wellbeing, learning and development
- Working and sharing information within a team
- Supporting personal care needs for children
Join the team and you can expect:
- Lovely purpose-built nursery environment with high quality resources available
- Uniform provided
- Paycare health benefits
- Join a friendly team
- Supportive and caring Management team
- Good location within a new development
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Career progression, if desired
Where you'll work
8 Warwick New Road
Leamington Spa
UK
CV32 5JF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
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
Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. Bright Stars will provide you with all the on-the-job training you need to up-skill in your role, and your 20% off-the-job learning will be incorporated as part of your working day. You will be working towards the Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, which includes:
- Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
- Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
- Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid or Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid
- Level 2 Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)
This will be delivered through Bright Star's dedicated training provider, Realise. Realise is an established training provider that’s enjoying an exciting period of growth following a management buyout and rebrand in late 2020.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
- Basic Maths (grade n/a)
- Standard English (grade n/a)
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
- Team working
- Creative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Free Parking to the left of the nursery on Guys Cliffe Road Local transport less than 15mins walk DBS required!
About this company
The Lighthouse Nursery and Pre School in Leamington Spa provides a very high standard of child care and education for children aged 6 months to school age and is rated as Outstanding by Ofsted - (last report 26th February 2020).
After this apprenticeship
Employment upon qualification with further CPD opportunities.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000319746.
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Closes in 13 days (Friday 23 May 2025)
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