Apprentice Early Years Practitioner

Iveston Child Care

Consett (DH8 7TB)

Closes in 23 days (Monday 30 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 5 June 2025

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Summary

Iveston Child Care have an excellent opportunity for an Apprentice Early Years Practitioner to join the team. If you love singing/dancing, reading stories, craft activities as well as enjoying time outdoors visiting local playgroups, parks and enjoy lots of adventures during school holidays visiting local attractions, this is the post for you.

Wage

£7,852 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Apprenticeship minimum wage £7.55 per hour

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
20 hours per week. Working times to be confirmed following interview.

20 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 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

The applicant should be hard working and reliability is paramount. The applicant should also be keen to learn and be part of a team to help educate and nurture children from 9 months in a fun, loving, happy environment. 

  • Meet the requirements of the EYFS framework
  • Key person responsibility
  • Observations of children, tracking development milestones and next steps
  • Provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social, and intellectual care for children placed in the setting
  • Give support to other personnel within the setting
  • Be flexible within working practices of the setting
  • Be prepared to help where needed
  • Recording accidents
  • Develop your role within the team
  • Ensure the setting provides a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children from differing cultures and religious backgrounds, and stages of development
  • Actively promote and support the safeguarding of children and young people in the workplace, ensuring setting policies and procedures are observed at all times

Where you'll work

Iveston
Consett
DH8 7TB

Training

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

College or training organisation

DERWENTSIDE 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

Apprenticeship Standard for Early Years Educator Level 3.

All training is delivered in the workplace. 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4)
  • Maths (grade 4)

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
  • Problem solving skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

Any successful applicants will need to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check. Staff holidays will need to be taken within school holiday times.

About this company

Located in the village of Iveston in Durham Iveston Childcare run by Angela is a busy Childminding business and has Early Years Assistants to support the setting. Caring for children aged between 9 months to 4 years in Early Years and also offer a wraparound service to school aged children.

After this apprenticeship

The expected career progression following successful completion of this apprenticeship may lead to full time employment for the right candidate. 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

DERWENTSIDE COLLEGE

Apprenticeship Recruitment Team

apprenticeships@derwentside.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000324565.

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Closes in 23 days (Monday 30 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

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