Nursery Apprentice
HARVEY HOUSE NURSERY LIMITED
London (3 available locations)
Closes on Tuesday 5 August 2025
Posted on 5 June 2025
Contents
Summary
Are you looking to start a career in Early Years and gain a level 3 qualification in Early Years? We have a fantastic opportunity to work at a nursery as an Early Years apprentice at our client’s setting. This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to begin their career in the Early Years with a keen interest in childcare.
- Wage
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£15,704 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
- Shifts range from 8am- 6pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 6 August 2025
- Duration
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3 years 4 months
- Positions available
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4
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
As an apprentice, you’ll work for a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff. What you’ll do at work:
1) Sharing the responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in the nursery.
2) Ensuring daily domestic routines are completed in the nursery, maintaining high standards to ensure the environment is safe, secure and clean at all times.
3) Planning and implementation of appropriate programmes of activities for children, helping children with their learning, play, educational and social development.
4) Ensuring all record keeping on the child’s development is in-line with the nursery policies, and to respect the confidentiality of information received.
5) Liaising with parents and encouraging their involvement in the aims of the nursery and in all aspects of their child/children’s care.
6) Helping children with feeding, changing clothes, toileting etc.
7) Ensuring each child is collected in accordance with the collection procedures.
8) Contributing to the team effort.
9) Liaising with all employees, children, parents and families to ensure the above tasks are completed effectively.
Where you'll work
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Harvey House, 1a Harvey Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 3DB
- Willow House Nursery, 1 Hainault Road, Leyton, London, E11 1ED
- 2 Greenleaf Road, London, E17 6QQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
THE RECALVI ENTERPRISE LTD
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
- Online Zoom lessons
- Two - Three hours long
- Lesson every two weeks
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade 4 or above)
- Maths (grade Grade 4 or above)
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Patience
About this company
Harvey House Nursery has 3 branches, Clubhouse, Beech and Willow nursery are all based in East London, they care for children from 0-5 years old. They offer a stimulating and engaging environment.
After this apprenticeship
- Full time role after apprenticeship
- Progression to room leader
- Complete Level 5 Lead Practitioner
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE RECALVI ENTERPRISE LTD
Kiya Vaughan
Kiya.Vaughan@ApprenticeshipConnect.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000324635.
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Closes on Tuesday 5 August 2025
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