Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprentice
FLYING START NURSERY LTD
FAIRFORD (GL7 4AB)
Closes in 12 days (Monday 25 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 11 August 2025
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Summary
We are seeking a passionate, nurturing, and committed individual to join our team as an Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprentice. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience while working towards a nationally recognised qualification in early years education.
- Wage
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£14,133.60 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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based on national apprentice wage of £7.55 per hour
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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8am - 6pm 4 days a week all year round 1 week shut down over Christmas.
9 hours a day 1 hour unpaid lunch.
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 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
As a Level 3 Apprentice, you will work with children aged 0–5 years, supporting their care, development, and learning in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
You will combine practical, day-to-day experience in the setting with off-the-job training delivered by a registered training provider, working towards the Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification over approximately 15–18 months.
Key Responsibilities
- Care and Development: Support the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of young children within a safe and stimulating environment
- EYFS Implementation: Plan and deliver engaging activities in line with the EYFS framework, tailored to individual children's needs and developmental stages
- Activity Supervision: Lead and supervise both child-initiated and adult-led play and learning experiences
- Relationships: Build positive, professional relationships with children, parents, carers, colleagues, and external professionals
- Safeguarding: Promote children’s welfare and ensure their safety by adhering to all safeguarding and health & safety policies and procedures
- Key Person Role: In some cases, act as a key person, developing a secure attachment and maintaining records of children’s progress
- Observations and Assessment: Observe, monitor, and document children’s learning to support planning and assessment
- Personal Care: Assist with routine care tasks, including feeding, nappy changing, and supporting toilet training
- Teamwork: Work collaboratively as part of a supportive, committed team to deliver outstanding care and learning experiences
Where you'll work
GLOUCESTER HOUSE
MARKET PLACE
FAIRFORD
GL7 4AB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NEW COLLEGE SWINDON
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
Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard:
- On-the-job mentoring and training from experienced practitioners
- A structured training programme in partnership with an approved training provider- New College Swindon
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- Early Years Practitioner Level 2 (grade Pass)
- maths and English (grade Level 2 pass, 4/C)
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
Other requirements
• Must be able to pass a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check • A genuine interest in working with children and a desire to build a career in early years education • A positive, proactive, and caring approach • Good communication and interpersonal skills • Ability to follow instructions and take initiative • Willingness to learn and engage in all aspects of training and study • Preferable driver due to location
About this employer
We are a family owned nursery (the only nursery we own) in the heart of Fairford. We have had the nursery now for fifteen of its seventeen years and in that time the nursery has gone from strength to strength.
After this apprenticeship
- Will support those that want to develop up to degree level where we can
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEW COLLEGE SWINDON
Kirsty Quittelier
Kirsty.Quittelier@newcollege.ac.uk
07564576155
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336478.
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Closes in 12 days (Monday 25 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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