APPRENTICE EARLY YEARS EDUCATOR LEVEL 3

TAYWOOD NURSERY SCHOOL

Burnley (BB11 5AE)

Closes in 12 days (Wednesday 9 July 2025)

Posted on 25 June 2025

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Summary

We are seeking a motivated, caring, and enthusiastic Apprentice Early Years Practitioner to join our vibrant maintained Nursery School and Seedlings, educating children from 9 months to 4 years of age.

Wage

£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Term time only plus 5 days INSET, 30 hours per week 8:45 am to 3:15pm

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

30 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

2 years

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

  • Working alongside a team of early years educators (teaching assistants) in a maintained nursery school
  • Delivering the curriculum within the school to children aged 2-4 years, and within the baby room setting for children under 2 years
  • Ensuring children are safe and their needs are being met, through following care routines and following our educational philosophy

Where you'll work

Accrington Road
Burnley
BB11 5AE

Training

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

College or training organisation

NELSON AND COLNE 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 Apprenticeship Standard:

  • Professional development delivered by LCC school advisers, opportunities for reflective teaching, peer observations, one to one mentor support and training linked to our school improvement plan
  • Safeguarding training and supervisions will be provided as well as First Aid

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade Level 2)
  • Maths (grade Level 2)

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
  • Team working

About this company

Taywood Nursery School has served families of Burnley for over 90 years and is a Local Authority maintained Nursery School; with a Headteacher, a qualified Teacher and highly skilled Early Years Practitioners with qualifications Level 3 and above in Early Years Education. We also offer children opportunities to learn in our beautiful Forest School hosted by a qualified Forest School Practitioner.

http://www.taywood.lancs.sch.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

  • Depending on the financial situation and needs of the school at the time, there may be opportunties for a permanent position. Career support will be offered

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NELSON AND COLNE COLLEGE

01282 425601

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000328084.

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Closes in 12 days (Wednesday 9 July 2025)

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