Apprentice Early Years Educator
COPMANTHORPE CHILDCARE CENTRE LIMITED
COPMANTHORPE (YO23 3YR)
Closes in 28 days (Friday 15 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 17 July 2025
Contents
Summary
We are seeking a passionate and dedicated Early Years Educator to join our team and play a crucial role in developing and nurturing young children through engaging activities and exciting play opportunities. The role requires patience and the ability to communicate effectively with children and staff, ensuring a safe and supportive nursery setting.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday working hours between 8am and 6pm
Shifts to be confirmed
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 9 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
- Manage daily activities and routines within the nursery, ensuring a safe and welcoming environment for all children, with the support of a mentor
- Plan and implement age-appropriate educational programmes that promote learning through play, following the EYFS
- Observe and assess children's development, using our online learning journal with the support from a mentor
- Drive initiatives that enhance children's social, emotional, and cognitive skills
- Collaborate with colleagues to create a cohesive team atmosphere focused on the well-being of each child
- Help to prepare and serve healthy snacks and educating children in making healthy choices
- Maintain a clean, organised, and safe learning environment in accordance with health and safety regulations
Where you'll work
COPMANTHORPE CHILDCARE CENTRE
BARONS CRESCENT
COPMANTHORPE
YO23 3YR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
YORK 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
You will attend York College on a day release basis and receive training in the workplace for the remainder of your working week
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 3 other subjects (grade 4/C)
- English (grade 4/C)
- maths (grade 4/C)
BTEC in:
Early Years (grade pass)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
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
We will consider a Level 2 apprenticeship training programme for the right candidate if you do not meet the GCSE entry criteria. For Level 2 you need 4 GCSEs at grade 3, including English and maths.
About this company
We are a private day Nursery with 12 staff members, open all year round and have been established for nearly 30 years. We take babies from 3 months old right through to 4-5 years olds helping preschool children transition to school. Copmanthorpe Childcare Centre believes children learn through play and become confident learners and critical thinkers when they are in a happy, safe and secure enabling environment.
After this apprenticeship
- After completion of the apprenticeship, there will be an opportunity to progress into a full-time role with us
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
YORK COLLEGE
apprenticeships@yorkcollege.ac.uk
01904 770368
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332428.
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Closes in 28 days (Friday 15 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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