Early Years Apprentice

Explorers Lydiate Nursery

Maghull (L31 4DB)

Closes in 7 days (Friday 6 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 22 May 2025

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Summary

Get ready to wear your superhero cape, because your responsibilities in this role include embarking on a journey of gaining knowledge and practical experience where every day brings new challenges and accomplishments.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday, full-time. Shifts to be confirmed.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 9 June 2025

Duration

1 year 11 months

Positions available

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

  • Care for and love the children in your care
  • Help children become independent, creative and confident young people
  • Ensure that children reach their full potential by planning exciting and stimulating activities in your specified room
  • Sing, play, read and tell lots of stories
  • Not being scared of getting dirty and having fun
  • Be happy to spend time outdoors
  • Take children on walks around the local environment and teach the children about our community
  • Communicate well with parents and carers. This includes maintaining electronic learning journeys, parents evening and parent partnership through planning and next steps
  • You will need a warm and positive approach, lots of creative ideas and have a willingness and dedication to work as part of a team

Where you'll work

5 Moss Lane
Lydiate
Maghull
L31 4DB

Training

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

College or training organisation

THE LEARNING FOUNDRY 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

  • You will be working towards a Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification
  • Training will be delivered on the job and by regular visits from one of our development coaches at The Learning Foundry with monthly online/face to face visit. 
  • Apprentices must successfully complete a first aid qualification in line with the requirements of the EYFS Framework (Annex A): Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • English (grade 4/C)
  • Maths (grade 4/C)

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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Number skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this company

Explorers Nursery is offering a contract of employment for an apprentice to complete their apprenticeship. The apprentice will be gaining knowledge, skills and behaviours that they need to achieve the apprenticeship with support from Explorers Nursery. Explorers Nursery has an excellent reputation and we want to maintain our excellent standards, this is an exciting opportunity to join a well established team. The apprentice must be prepared to feel loved, special and important to many young children and their families.

After this apprenticeship

  • At the end of the level 3 apprenticeship we could offer support towards a level 4 qualification, while providing the apprentice with access to various training courses and a wide work experience. There are also opportunities for promotion.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE LEARNING FOUNDRY LIMITED

Holly Goodwin

holly.goodwin@thelearningfoundry.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000322330.

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Closes in 7 days (Friday 6 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

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