Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship at Wellesley Park Explorers, Wellington
Blackdown Education Partnership
Wellington (TA21 9AJ)
Closes in 12 days (Monday 14 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 30 June 2025
Contents
Summary
In this role you will work across two rooms and have a group of key children. You will be planning activities for them to support their learning and development, following their routines and creating a positive parent partnership.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 to £23,492.04, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
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Apprentices are paid at the national minimum wage for their age: Age under 18 £7.55 Age 18 to 20 £10.00 Age 21 to 22 £12.21
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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37 hours per week (all year round) to be within our opening hours of Monday-Friday 7:30am – 6:00pm.
Working hours will be confirmed at appointment.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 26 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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2
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 at our nursery, you will be a valued and active member of our team, learning and growing alongside experienced early years professionals. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience while working towards your qualification in early years education. You will be supported in developing the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to become a competent and compassionate early years practitioner.
Key Learning Objectives
Throughout your apprenticeship, you will work towards understanding how to:
• Provide inclusive play and learning opportunities for all children, ensuring a safe, stimulating, and enjoyable environment.
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues to create an enabling environment where every child can play, develop, and learn.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with parents and carers to support each child’s individual needs and development.
Core Responsibilities
As you progress in your role, you will gradually take on the responsibilities of a nursery practitioner, including:
• Supervising children during activities and routines, ensuring their safety and well-being at all times.
• Reporting any child protection concerns immediately to the nursery manager, following safeguarding procedures.
• Providing high-quality care that promotes children’s health, emotional security, and overall development.
• Acting as a key person for a small group of children, observing and supporting their learning and development, and reflecting their needs in planning.
• Supporting children with special educational needs, ensuring inclusive and effective learning experiences.
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date records, including developmental progress, observations, and any concerns.
• Communicating regularly with parents and carers about their child’s interests, progress, and needs.
• Participating in parent/carer meetings to discuss children’s development and share insights.
• Engaging in regular supervision sessions and contributing to your own performance appraisals.
• Attending team meetings to share ideas, reflect on practice, and support continuous improvement.
• Collaborating with external agencies and professionals when appropriate to support children’s development.
• Attending training sessions, conferences, and meetings as identified by the nursery manager to stay informed about best practices and current guidance.
• Upholding the nursery’s policies, including confidentiality and safeguarding, at all times.
• Following the statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and contributing to its implementation.
Daily Operational Duties
In addition to your learning and care responsibilities, you will also support the day-to-day running of the nursery by:
• Assisting with setting up the learning environment at the start of each session and helping to tidy and clean at the end.
• Sharing training insights and ideas with the wider team to support collective development.
• Checking and maintaining first aid supplies for both staff and children, reporting any items that need replenishing.
• Carrying out any other reasonable duties as requested by the nursery manager to support the smooth operation of the setting.
This role is ideal for someone passionate about working with young children and eager to begin a rewarding career in early years education. You will be supported every step of the way as you develop the skills and experience needed to thrive in this vital and fulfilling profession.
Where you'll work
Wellesley Park Explorers Wellesley Park Primary School
Homefield
Wellington
TA21 9AJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
SOMERSET SKILLS & LEARNING CIC
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
Requirements
Desirable 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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Ability to show initiative
Other requirements
Successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check. Please consider how you will travel to the place of work, particularly if you rely on public transport.
About this company
Wellesley Park Explorers is a school-based nursery offering care and education to children aged 9 months and upwards. The provision is based in the grounds of Wellesley Park Primary school.
After this apprenticeship
Potential permanent job role or/and progression to a higher-level apprenticeship or qualification.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SOMERSET SKILLS & LEARNING CIC
SS&L the training provider
enquiries@sslcourses.co.uk
0330 332 7997
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000328786.
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Closes in 12 days (Monday 14 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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