Early Years Apprentice
CT Skills
100 Nottingham Road, Hucknall, Nottingham, NG15 7QE (NG15 7QE)
Closes in 19 days (Friday 10 October 2025)
Posted on 18 September 2025
Contents
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children in the nursery.
- 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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Monday to Friday shifts between 7.30am and 6pm.
40 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
Level 3 Early Years Apprentice @ Hucknall Day Nursery.
Location: 100 Nottingham Road, Hucknall, Nottingham, NG15 7QE.
Who are Hucknall Day Nursery?
Hucknall Day Nursery is a family run business that provides a safe, caring, and supportive environment for children from 0 to 4 years of age. With dedicated age-based rooms, including the Baby Room and Pre-School-Learning Room, it provides dedicated care and learning to meet children's needs. They have a supportive and friendly team that will help you throughout your apprenticeship journey.
What will I get from working with Hucknall Day Nursery?
- Earn: £7.55 per hour, 40 hours per week
- Experience – your hours: Monday to Friday shifts between 7.30am and 6pm.
- Qualification: Early Years Educator Level 3 takes approximately 18 months.
What will my day look like?
You will be providing a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children in the nursery.
Your daily tasks will include:
- Preparing and delivering activities that meet the individual needs and interests of children.
- Shadowing a qualified nursery practitioner.
- Attending out-of-working hours activities, e.g., training, staff meetings, parents evening, fundraising events etc.
- Recording accidents and completing the relevant form.
- Developing your role within the team, especially with an understanding of the role of a 'key person.'
- Ensuring that mealtimes are a time of pleasant social sharing.
- Washing and changing children as required.
- Ensuring good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained.
- Ensuring a poorly child is kept calm and warm (notify management straight away).
- Developing and maintaining strong partnerships and communications with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day care and early learning needs.
- A minimum of 6 hours per week will be spent on apprenticeship work and training.
How does the Apprenticeship work?
Working towards your Early Years Educator Level 3 Qualification, you'll attend monthly 1-2-1 meetings (online via teams every month – no classroom OR college!) with your tutor and learn about modules including risk management, key person & attachment, learning & development, and more! You will be given a minimum of 3 hours per week to complete any apprenticeship work (assignments, research, and projects) and will receive at least another 3 hours of training from your employer. All apprenticeship work and training is completed in the workplace, during working hours.
What skills/qualifications do I need?
- Minimum Grade 4/C in GCSE (or equivalent) Maths & English
- UK Residency – must have lived in the UK for at least 3 years
- Team working, motivated, reliable & patient.
- Positive attitude, energetic & ambitious.
What happens next?
If your application is successful, you will receive a call from our dedicated Recruitment Consultant who will discuss the qualification, location and course length in more detail. Following this call, you will be asked to write a supporting statement and complete an English and Maths assessment.
If you really want to impress us, why not show your enthusiasm and carry out some further research on the employer and the qualification you'll be working towards! Links are provided below:
Employer Website: https://www.hucknalldaynursery.co.uk/
About the Qualification: https://www.ctskills.co.uk/apprenticeship-courses/childcare/
Where you'll work
100 Nottingham Road, Hucknall, Nottingham, NG15 7QE
NG15 7QE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CT SKILLS 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
You'll attend monthly 1-2-1 meetings (online via teams every month – no classroom or college!) with your tutor and learn about modules including risk management, key person & attachment, learning & development, and more!
You will be given a minimum of 3 hours per week to complete any apprenticeship work (assignments, research, and projects) and will receive at least another 3 hours of training from your employer.
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
- Customer care skills
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
About this employer
Hucknall Day Nursery is a family run business that provides a safe, caring, and supportive environment for children from 0 to 4 years of age. With dedicated age-based rooms, including the Baby Room, and Pre School-Learning Room, it provides dedicated care and learning to meet children's needs. They have a supportive and friendly team that will help you throughout your apprenticeship journey.
After this apprenticeship
As with any apprenticeship opportunity – if you prove yourself to be a valuable member of the team, there is a strong chance of a permanent post within the business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CT SKILLS LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342921.
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Closes in 19 days (Friday 10 October 2025)
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