Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship at The Beehive Day Nursery, Taunton
THE BEEHIVE DAY NURSERY LTD
TAUNTON (TA1 5AA)
Closes in 23 days (Friday 29 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 5 August 2025
Contents
Summary
Do you have strong passion for early years with the ambition to provide a high standard of care and education for every child under the age of 5 helping to lay the foundations for their future? In this role you will be willing to learn, able to keep children safe and ensure that the environment reflects the children’s needs and interests.
- Wage
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£13,741 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. Times to be discussed at interview. We are open each day between 7.30am and 6.00pm.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
A suitable candidate would have a strong passion for early years with the ambition to provide a high standard of care and education for every child under the age of 5, helping to lay the foundations for their future.
Candidates must be willing to learn and able to follow instructions from team members whilst using their initiative to keep children safe and to ensure that the environment reflects the children’s needs and interests. You will be required to:
- Assist in the provision of a warm caring environment for children and their families, accessible to all
- Provide high quality childcare for under fives, which includes planning for a wide range of exciting activities and opportunities which meet the developmental needs and interests of each child
- Have an awareness of the seven areas of the EYFS from observations and following the children’s interests
- To integrate children and parents with disabilities, sensitively and positively into The Beehive, promoting participation in a range of quality activities and experiences, based on the child’s interests
- To actively research and contribute to long term and medium-term planning
- Liaise with parents/carers and external agencies (where needed) regularly through parent’s evenings and daily opportunities to share the child’s achievements through termly target setting and their Learning Pathway and to highlight any concerns you may have
- Work alongside with the Key Persons and SENCo to share concerns a child may have and discuss an action plan and suitable next steps (for example, implementing a Support Plan)
- Ensure someone known and agreed by the nursery and parent collects the child
- To respect the confidentiality of all information received
- Read, understand and adhere to all policies and procedures. You must take responsibility for ensuring you keep up to date with any changes
- To seek support from senior staff whenever necessary
- To have a group of Key Children
Where you'll work
ROUGHMOOR
BISHOPS HULL
TAUNTON
TA1 5AA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOMERSET SKILLS & LEARNING CIC
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 Apprenticeship Standard for the Early Years Educator qualification
- Paediatric first aid qualification
- Functional Skills in English and maths, if required
- End Point Assessment: Observation with Questioning & Professional Discussion
- Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C / 4 or above)
- Maths (grade C / 4 or above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
A DBS check will be required for this role. This will be arranged by the employer.
About this employer
The Beehive Day Nursery is a family-run business which opened in January 2012. The nursery is located within a quiet, semi-rural location, close to the park and ride with ample parking for drop-off and collection. The Beehive Day Nursery provides a safe and nurturing environment for babies and children aged 3 months to 5 years. We are registered for 62 children, having expanded from a 43 place nursery, due to such high demand, back in 2013.
After this apprenticeship
- If successful, the candidate could be supported to progress to a Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner Apprenticeship.
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 VAC1000335741.
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Closes in 23 days (Friday 29 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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