Apprentice Nursery Practitioner

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Slough (SL2 4HL)

Closes in 13 days (Monday 18 August 2025)

Posted on 4 August 2025

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Summary

An opportunity has arisen for an Apprentice Early Years Nursery Practitioner to join a friendly and dedicated team, working towards the Early Years Educator Level 3 qualification. First Steps Day Nursery, located on-site at Wexham Park Hospital for staff use, provides high-quality care and education for children aged 3 months to 5 years.

Wage

£24,465 a year

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Band 2 (NHS) whilst working towards the apprenticeship.

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday, shift pattern between 07.00 - 18.30. 8-hour daily shift, with varied start times. Fixed term contract of 24 months.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Tuesday 30 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

  • Assist in delivering age-appropriate learning and development activities based on each child’s individual needs and early years best practice
  • Support the creation of a safe, caring, and stimulating environment where children can thrive
  • Help with feeding, changing, and personal care to support children’s social and emotional development
  • Maintain cleanliness and hygiene in the nursery, including preparing snacks and assisting with mealtimes
  • Observe, monitor, and record children’s development in line with the EYFS and report findings to senior staff
  • Ensure effective communication with children, parents/carers, colleagues, and external professionals
  • Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring every child has the opportunity to contribute and succeed
  • Support safeguarding, health and safety procedures and respond to emergency situations as required

Where you'll work

Wexham Park Hospital
Wexham Street
Slough
SL2 4HL

Training

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

Training provider

HIT TRAINING LTD

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.

Training schedule

  • You will work towards and complete the Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship
  • You will be provided a mentor who will support you, including setting tasks to complete, visits and assessments
  • Training is likely to be one day per week

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade C)
  • Maths (grade C)

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

Caring for Children (grade pass)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness

About this employer

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire. We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough. We run outpatient clinics and diagnostic services from Aldershot, Farnham, Fleet, Windsor, Maidenhead, Bracknell and Chalfont St Peter. We hold 3 core values, Committed to Excellence, Working Together, and Facing the Future

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Disability Confident

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

The role is a great opportunity to launch your career within Woodlands Day Nursery and the NHS. There are numerous opportunities to explore once you have completed the apprenticeship programme, including early years practitioner, and roles within the paediatric department.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HIT TRAINING LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332897.

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Closes in 13 days (Monday 18 August 2025)

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