Early Years Educator Apprentice
QUEENSBURY PRIVATE DAY NURSERY LIMITED
Bradford (BD13 2PD)
Closes on Thursday 31 July 2025
Posted on 19 June 2025
Contents
Summary
As an Apprentice Nursery Nurse, you will play a key role in supporting the development of children within your care. Providing a range of play opportunities in a safe and caring environment you will gain hands on experience within the setting whilst gaining a recognised qualification to support you in your role.
- Wage
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£16,640 a year
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday. Shift patterns. 7.00am - 6.00pm. 40 hours a week.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 1 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
- Assisting in delivering a high level of quality childcare maintaining a professional and positive outcome for both children and staff
- Building effective relationships with children, parents and team members
- Ensuring each child’s individual needs are met
- Work towards the apprenticeship standards provided
- Completing a wide range of bespoke childcare courses and short training sessions to ensure that the highest quality childcare practice is delivered
Where you'll work
92 High Street
Queensbury
Bradford
BD13 2PD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
TOTAL TRAINING PROVISION 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
Training will take place within the workplace with the remote support of a dedicated tutor as well as management within the organisation.
You will be required to complete relevant learning, 1-2-1 sessions and assessments within your working hours, times and dates will be agreed in advance between yourself, your manager and the tutor.
More training information
On enrolment to your employment and apprenticeship, a training plan will be agreed, and learning will be tailored to you and your preferred style of learning.
Requirements
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
About this company
Queensbury Private Day nursery is a beautiful light and airy, fully renovated former public house in the heart of Queensbury Village with highly skilled practitioners who are passionate and dedicated to delivering OUTSTANDING child care. We take children between the ages of 0 to 5 years and our aim is to provide high quality childcare in a setting where children are excited to come each day. Equally important is to provide you, as parents, with a setting where you feel happy to leave your child, knowing that they are safe, valued and loved. We strive to provide a "home from home" environment which at the same time is fun, educational, stimulating and caring to ensure that each child thrives.
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Company benefits
Company events Company pension Transport links Progression Opportunities
After this apprenticeship
Progression onto higher education/training and staff development.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TOTAL TRAINING PROVISION LIMITED
Lucy Hodgkinson
Lucy.Hodgkinson@total-tp.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000327194.
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Closes on Thursday 31 July 2025
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