Apprentice Early Years Educator
Kirton Primary School
Boston (PE20 1HY)
Closes in 10 days (Friday 20 June 2025)
Posted on 6 June 2025
Contents
Summary
Join the Kirton Primary School team and train alongside professional staff to qualify as a Level 3 Early Years Educator.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday term time only to cover the school day plus up to ten twilight sessions a year. Released one afternoon a week to attend college sessions (these may be via Teams). Working hours TBC
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 2 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 8 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
- To be involved in the planning and record keeping of children’s development
- Sharing in the care and well-being of the children throughout the nursery
- Assisting in creating a stimulating environment that enhances the children’s social and educational development
- Developing children’s social skills by supporting children in groups
- Providing support to the teacher across a range of child centred activities to promote child development and learning
- Following and implementing the school’s behaviour policy and any related policies and procedures
- Maintaining and respecting confidentiality
- Attending team meetings and training when required
- Attending college when required and keeping up to date with coursework
Where you'll work
Kirton Primary School
Station Road
Kirton
Boston
PE20 1HY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
BOSTON 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
- Early Years Educator Level 3
- Training will include paediatric first aid qualification
You'll work within the school setting and be supported by Boston College to undertake your apprenticeship. There may be a requirement to attend college for workshops.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 or C and above)
- Maths (grade 4 or C and 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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
The ethos of our school is such that open and supportive relationships exist between all members or our school community. We foster close working partnerships with parents and carers. Children are encouraged to understand British Values and to contribute to the life and work of both their school and the wider community. We have a rich and stimulating curriculum. Our intention is that every child will develop into an inquisitive and confident learner and fulfil their full potential through the experiences we provide. Our school is one of the highest performing schools in the country.
After this apprenticeship
A career within an early years setting.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Kirton Primary School
Lisa Lea
lisa.lea@kirton-boston.lincs.sch.uk
01205 722236
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000324853.
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Closes in 10 days (Friday 20 June 2025)
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