Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprentice
LIMES COURT NURSERY SCHOOL LIMITED
Wolverhampton (WV6 8RZ)
Closes in 28 days (Saturday 20 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 November 2025
Contents
Summary
An exciting opportunity to join the fabulous team at Limes Court Nursery in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, to complete a Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship. As an apprentice, you will work and interact directly with children on a day-to-day basis, supporting the planning of and delivery of activities.
- Wage
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£12,563.20 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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10.00am to 6.00pm across four days per week, Monday to Friday. Shifts are set weekly TBC.
32 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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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
As a Level 3 Early Years Educator apprentice, you will:
- Work and interact directly with children on a day-to-day basis, supporting the planning of and delivery of activities, purposeful play opportunities and educational programmes within the nursery
- Be part of a professional team ensuring the welfare and care for children under the guidance and supervision of qualified staff
- Communicate professionally and courteously with colleagues, children, parents and visitors
- Be flexible over shift patterns to ensure that the nursery is functioning safely at all times and complying with safe standards at work
- Ensure a safe environment for children, parents and visitors in accordance with policies and procedures and the Health & Safety Act at Work 1974
Where you'll work
6 Limes Court
Upper Green
Tettenhall
Wolverhampton
WV6 8RZ
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
The apprenticeship is delivered as work-based learning, with monthly face to face or online meetings with an appointed skills coach to ensure you make excellent progress throughout the programme. Six off-the-job hours are allowed per week to complete work set and log knowledge, skills and behaviours achieved.
Qualifications will include:
- Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification
- Paediatric First Aid
- Functional Skills if required
Requirements
Desirable 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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Confident
About this employer
Limes Court Nursery School is conveniently located in the heart of Tettenhall village. It has been lovingly set up by Jennie McMahon, a highly experienced Early Years Practitioner and local mother of three children, with over 22 years’ experience in early years education, experience of a range of educational settings and extensive experience working with children with additional needs. The nursery provides a varied, stimulating, and nurturing environment where children feel happy and secure and are well supported in achieving their goals and potential.
After this apprenticeship
There is an opportunity for full-time employment on successful completion of this apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001828.
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Closes in 28 days (Saturday 20 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
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