Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship - Incredible Kids Day Nursery
INCREDIBLE KIDS (DERBY) LTD
Derby (DE24 8AJ)
Closes in 13 days (Monday 10 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 27 October 2025
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Summary
We are seeking a kind, caring, and enthusiastic individual to join our team as an apprentice. This role is dedicated to providing high-quality education and care for the children within our nursery, while fostering a nurturing, stable, and supportive environment for both the children and their families.
- 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 varying between 7.30am and 5.30pm (To be confirmed), 40 hours per week.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 11 November 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
- To arrive at work in good time, in uniform, to allow your belongings to be put safely away and be ready to start in the allocated room at the start of your shift
- Ensure ratios are maintained at all times
- To promote well-being and healthy eating practices for all children
- To ensure that each child’s needs are recognised and met.
- To teach children, offering an appropriate level of support & stimulation
- To assist with the keeping of children’s records of achievements
- To greet all children, families and carers
- To offer reassurance to new families and support them in settling in
- To always maintain a friendly yet professional relationship/approach with families/carers
- To complete required documentation/paperwork & forms (including online portal)
- To promote a stimulating, enabling & challenging environment for all children
- To help set up the room for the daily programme and/or help tidy away at the end of the day
- To ensure that the nursery environment (within all communal areas and in children’s rooms) is kept and maintained to a high standard of hygiene with regular sanitising and sterilising
- To advise the Nursery Manager of any concerns about children, parents, carers, other staff, nursery environment, or the safety of equipment, preserving confidentiality as necessary
- To maintain confidentiality regarding any information regarding children, their families, carers or other staff which is learned as part of the job inside or outside of the workplace
- To follow all Nursery Policies & Procedures at all times
- To attend staff & planning meetings as required
- To attend in-service training courses & meetings as required.
- To have respect for each other at all times
- To ensure that all College/Distant Learning is completed according to any set deadlines
- To inform the Nursery management and Nursery Manager if there are any changes to your circumstances with College/Distant Learning that could affect your qualification result or suitability to work with children
Where you'll work
2 Royal Scot Road
Pride Park
Derby
DE24 8AJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LET ME PLAY 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 will work towards your Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification across a total duration of 18 months!
- Training provider: LMP Group: https://lmp-group.co.uk/
- All online/remote learning, no classroom or college day release
- An allocated tutor will support you throughout the apprenticeship!
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Interpersonal skills
Other requirements
(Permitting you’re eligible for the role) Please expect to receive contact from our LMP Education Recruitment team, to discuss your application further. Additionally, please be aware that upon a successful offer of employment, DBS checks and references will be obtained as part of your enrolment.
About this employer
Incredible Kids was established in 2013 by entrepreneur and mother of six, Samantha Corbin, on the site of the former Pride Park Day Nursery in Derby. Sam soon went on to increase the Incredible Kids offering via the acquisition of our Hilton setting in 2014 and new-build of Ashby in 2016. Sam’s passion for childcare shines through the welcoming, diverse and nurturing environments that have been created for all of our Incredible Kids and employees alike. We strive for brilliance in everything that we do. Sadly, Sam lost her short battle with Cancer on Sunday 16th July 2017. The Incredible Kids team, under the direction of Chris Corbin (Sam’s husband), work tirelessly to deliver on Sam’s mission: To give a child the best possible start in life by providing a warm, safe nursery environment where each child can learn and develop their individual personality.
https://www.incrediblekidsdaynursery.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
After this apprenticeship
Future opportunities for progression.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LET ME PLAY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000348395.
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Closes in 13 days (Monday 10 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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