Level 3 Childcare and Education Apprenticeship
BARDFIELD MONTESSORI DAY NURSERY LTD
BRAINTREE (CM7 4PY)
Closes on Thursday 1 January 2026
Posted on 17 November 2025
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Summary
You will be completing your Level 3 Educator course whilst learning vital on the job skills with an outstanding and accredited Montessori day nursery. You will be starting your journey in our preschool classroom with children aged over 2.5 years to 5 years, before spending time with our very youngest of children.
- Wage
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£10,992.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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Monthly wages Current salary £7.55 per hour.
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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4 days per week.
9:00am-5:00pm
51 weeks of the year
28 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
- Welcoming children into the nursery setting
- Handover to the child’s family about their day
- Preparing snack alongside the children
- Supporting children's hygiene routines i.e. nappy changing
- Creating fun activities
- Attending external outings like Forest School or trips to the farm
- Becoming a key person; uploading observations, planning activities to help their development and giving feedback to their families
- Supervising children in the nursery environment; indoors and outdoors
- Updating online nursery software / parent communications app
Where you'll work
BRAINTREE ROAD
GREAT BARDFIELD
BRAINTREE
CM7 4PY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SWIFT ACI
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
Workplace training will take place in our nursery setting in Great Bardfield. Training will be delivered online. A training agreement will be in place with the training provider. This will include weekly lessons in the beginning and then observations and check ins during practical working times.
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
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Patience
Other requirements
passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check passing a First Aid course passing a Level 2 safeguarding course
About this employer
Outstanding Day Nursery setting. Accredited Montessori philosophy excellently installed throughout the nursery setting. Small day nursery, taking up to 40 children per day. High ratios, experienced and qualified staff team of 20. Lots of outings with the children visiting local farm, park and village. Everyday is different with freedom of choice within our Montessori classes. No complaints. Everyone is very happy.
After this apprenticeship
To continue as an early years educator training in other skills.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SWIFT ACI
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000929.
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Closes on Thursday 1 January 2026
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