Early Years Level 3 Apprenticeship - The Little Wendy House
THE LITTLE WENDY HOUSE DAY NURSERY LTD
Wednesbury (WS10 9EL)
Closes on Monday 1 September 2025
Posted on 24 July 2025
Contents
Summary
Are you looking to progress in early years? The Little Wendy House in Wednesbury is looking for a Level 3 apprentice to join their friendly, welcoming team. The setting has a calm and family atmosphere where strong bonds are made between staff, children and parents/carers. The role involves caring for babies, toddlers and pre school age children.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday hours to be determined.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 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
As a level 3 apprentice, you will be a key member of the nursery team.
Your daily activities may include:
- Planning and implementing fun and educational activities with the children
- Play alongside and with children to support their play
- Supporting children’s creative and imaginative experiences
- Maintaining development records on key children
- Supervising children at rest times and at mealtimes
- Contributing to and promoting health and safety
- Ensuring the play area is clean and tidy at all times
- Working closely with parents and providing feedback on their child
Useful Qualities to have:
- Friendly and approachable
- Patient, and caring
- The ability to interact positively with children and adults
- Flexible and willing to carry out a number of different activities within the job role
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Motivated
- The ability to work using your own initiative
This position would suit a candidate with a bubbly, outgoing personality who is able to work on their own initiative and is prepared to commit to the work required for an apprenticeship.
Where you'll work
The Little Wendy House 23 Walsall Street
Wednesbury
WS10 9EL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ASPIRATION TRAINING LIMITED
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
- Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, which includes:
- Level 3 Early Years Educator Diploma
- End-Point Assessment (EPA)
- On-the-job training
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- Maths (grade 4-9)
- English (grade 4-9)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Team working
- Creative
Other requirements
Please consider travelling if using public transport.
About this employer
One of the first things to strike visitors to The Little Wendy House Nursery is a calm, family atmosphere. This is created by developing organised and friendly surroundings, in which close bonds can be formed between staff, children and parents. They recognise the importance of a well-balanced diet for young children. The nursery therefore provide a menu which is full of nutritious meals attractively presented and prepared either by their kitchen by a qualified cook or caterers. All individual needs including religious, cultural and medical dietary requirements are catered for. They have been graded a 5* in food hygiene by environmental health since 2012. Breakfast, lunch, tea and snacks are offered daily. The Little Wendy House Day Nursery has an outdoor play facility and playroom. Children are fully supervised and all fences / gates are secure and kept in good order. All children have access to both areas at least twice a day. Babies can vary due to weather.
After this apprenticeship
The possibility of full-time employment following the apprenticeship may be available for the right candidate.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ASPIRATION TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333562.
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Closes on Monday 1 September 2025
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