Nursery Apprentice
BRIGHT KIDS DAY NURSERY LTD
Leyton (E10 5NR)
Closes in 27 days (Friday 3 October 2025)
Posted on 4 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Building a brighter future one block at a time - join the team at Bright Kids Day Nursery, Leyton as an Early Years Apprentice and support children with their day-to-day routines while you develop your own skills supported by experienced practitioners.
- Wage
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£15,704 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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40-hours a week, Monday to Friday, shifts to be agreed
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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2
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
Bright Kids Day Nursery is a family run business that has been established for over 25 years. Our two settings are purpose built, and spacious with generous outdoor area and is situated in the heart of East London 1.2 miles from Queen Elizabeth Park.
They are looking for a motivated, imaginative apprentice to complete a level 3 early years educator apprenticeship in the Leyton setting.
You will be:
- Supporting children with mealtimes
- Setting out activities
- Supervising outdoor play
- Assisting them with their personal care needs
- Helping to clean and tidy
- Help children respect people of different race, ability, gender, religion and culture
- Motivate the children and staff
- Encourage children to respect others
- Report accidents or incidents to senior member of staff
- Attend trainings and staff meetings
- Completing on the job training
About you:
- You will have a professional and mature approach to work
- You will need to be flexible in relation to your working hours
- Reliable and conscientious in your care of the children
- Be prepared to undertake additional training, i.e. child protection, equal opportunities
- Be able to work as part of a professional childcare team
Where you'll work
1-3 The Square
High Road
Leyton
E10 5NR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT 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
Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. They will provide you with all of the on-the-job training you need to up-skill in your role, and your 20% off-the-job learning will be incorporated as part of your working day.
You will be working towards the Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, which includes:
- Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
- Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
- Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid or Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid
- Level 2 Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)
This will be delivered by your dedicated training provider, Realise.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication Skills
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Organisation skills
- Patience
About this employer
Our Leyton branch has recently expanded and can now accommodate up to 130 children. We offer free 15 and 30-hour funded childcare places. Our aim is to provide a safe and secure environment in order for children to learn and develop from birth – 5years. We are open from Monday to Friday from 8.00am-6.00pm; We also offer the 7.30 option at the request of parents/carers the early bird service. Both Nurseries are each organised by age groups to ensure children are provided with resources, routines according to their age and stage of development. The Nursery is set within a large purpose built nurseries on the which offers a homely and spacious environment for the children to play and learn. Each room is light, airy and stunning. The building is fully air conditioned; this offers our children and comfortable and pleasant environment.
After this apprenticeship
Room leader or further training opportunities.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000340421.
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Closes in 27 days (Friday 3 October 2025)
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