Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship
C M WILLIAMS & R BLOOMER A MOTHERWELL
Kingswinford (DY6 9AQ)
Closes in 17 days (Monday 6 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 18 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Have you completed a Level 2 Early Years Practitioner Apprenticeship? A great opportunity to progress to a Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship at Village Bears Nursery, Wall Heath working with children to ensure they achieve the learning objectives and according to the Early Years Foundation Stage, observing and recording their development.
- Wage
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£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, between 7.00am - 6.00pm (agreed in advance on a rota basis).
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 13 October 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
- Be responsible for a small number of children in your key room as their key person, ensuring their care and with support from qualified staff ensure their learning and development
- Ensure the children in your key group meet their learning objectives according to the Early Years Foundation stage by planning for and observing their development with support from the qualified members of staff
- Create individual learning journeys to record and evaluate your key groups leaning and development and progress
- Gain a full understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Provide an interesting, fun, age-appropriate learning environment with a variety of activities that stimulate the children’s learning in you care
- Make and maintain learning materials and resources
- Gain a full understanding of the five outcomes for children from “Every Child Matters” change for children
- Record key information regarding the child’s daily routine following the nursery systems that have been put in place
- Feedback the children’s routine to parents on a daily basis, creating continuous partnerships with parents
- To have a full understanding to the settings policies and procedures and ensure they are implemented
- Ensure all children are continuously stimulated and a range of activities are provided for all the children ensuring that they reach their full potential
- To share in the responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children in the nursery
- Assist in the daily domestic duties of the nursery, including ensuring the nursery is kept safe, secure and clean at all times
- Ensure the health and safety requirements are maintained
- Ensure the high standards of the nursery are met at all time
- Communicate regularly with the people that you are responsible to
Where you'll work
Dudley Road
Wall Heath
Kingswinford
DY6 9AQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
JUNIPER 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
- Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
- End Point Assessment
- Work based learning
- Functional skills in English and maths if required
- Training will include paediatric first aid qualification
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
You must already have a Level 2 Early Years Practitioner qualification to be able to apply for this role.
About this employer
Village Bears Nursery provide high quality childcare for children aged from 12 weeks to 8 years within a friendly and fun atmosphere across our 2 settings. Choosing the right childcare setting is one of the most important decisions for every parent to make for their child’s well being and education. We are committed to working with you as partners to ensure your child’s time with us is happy, enjoyable and productive, and that they will remember it fondly.
After this apprenticeship
Full-time position available upon completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
Diane Jones
diane.jones@junipertraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342603.
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Closes in 17 days (Monday 6 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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