Level 3 Early Years Eductaor Apprentice
PIPPINS NURSERY (LEEDS) LTD T/A PIPPINS NURSERY
LEEDS (LS27 8AG)
Closes in 8 days (Saturday 15 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 6 November 2025
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Summary
Private children's day nursery operating from 8am to 6pm. We offer 15 hours of funding for 2, 3 and 4-year-olds. Meeting children's needs through their interests and teaching children to celebrate cultural differences is one of our main focuses. The nursery carries out wrap-around care and after-school club.
- Wage
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£11,778 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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The working week will be Monday to Friday. Shifts will vary each week between 7:30am to 6pm. (For example working 9am to 5pm).
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 26 November 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
What you’ll do at work
- To give support to staff within the setting
- To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop and learn
- To effectively deliver the EYFS, ensuring that the individual's needs and the interests of children in the setting are met
- To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communication with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring
- To ensure the provision of a high-quality environment to meet the needs of individual children, having an awareness of any disabilities, family cultures and medical histories
- To be flexible within the working practices of the sitting, such as domestic tasks
Where you'll work
51C COMMERCIAL STREET
MORLEY
LEEDS
LS27 8AG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LUMINATE EDUCATION GROUP
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
Requirements
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
- Team working
- Creative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Punctuality
About this employer
The development of children’s emotional, physical, social and intellectual capabilities is promoted effectively when they take part in a wide range of activities. Our staff will plan first hand experiences which will enable your child to make choices as they develop their knowledge, skills and understanding. Children’s care, learning and play is well supported by our experienced professional team who monitor your child’s progress regularly and plan to meet their individual needs, enabling them to flourish and fulfil their potential within a safe and stimulating environment. There's something for everybody here at Pippins'! Setting the standards for Learning, Development and Care for children from birth to five plus, the principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum; www.foundationyears.org.uk - forms the basis of the planning of our routines, activities and recreation whilst learning through play.
https://www.pippins-nursery-morley.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
After this apprenticeship
Opportunity to be taken on permanently.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LUMINATE EDUCATION GROUP
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000349953.
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Closes in 8 days (Saturday 15 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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