Apprentice Early Years Practitioner
Judy Clark Childcare
Grimsby (DN31 2ES)
Closes in 20 days (Friday 12 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 November 2025
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Summary
We have a fantastic opportunity for an apprentice early years practitioner to join our team at Judy Clark Childcare. If you are passionate about children and helping them reach their full potential while having fun along the way, then this is the role for you.
- Wage
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£12,955.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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Apprentices aged 19 or over, who have completed the first year of the apprenticeship, must thereafter receive at least the correct national minimum wage for their age group.
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8.30am - 3.30pm
33 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 April 2026
- 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
In this role, you will learn:
- How to meet children’s social, emotional, physical, and intellectual needs by providing stimulating and age-appropriate play and learning opportunities in the setting
- How to supervise the children where appropriate and to protect them from dangerous or harmful situations, with the support and guidance of senior staff
- How to contribute to a high level of care that will enhance the children’s general health and wellbeing
- How to carry out observations of children, discuss the progress of children with the key person and contribute any ideas to informal and formal planning sessions
- How to be aware of any special needs a child may have and to familiarise yourself with relevant play and learning plans
Your responsibilities will also include:
- Working with colleagues to provide a fun and engaging outdoor activities to cover all areas of the children’s development
- Preparing healthy snacks, set up and clear away mealtimes and support children during mealtimes
- Attending and contributing to your review sessions
- Attending and contributing at regular staff/team meetings
- Sharing any child protection concerns immediately with the Designated Safeguarding Lead or their deputy
- Adhering to our code of practice on confidentiality
You will be given a small key group of children who you will complete observations, planning, and reports, working alongside your staff mentor.
You will be given a small key group of children who you will complete observations, planning, and reports, working alongside your staff mentor.
Where you'll work
Macaulay Street
Grimsby
DN31 2ES
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE
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
More training information
- You will be enrolled on the Level 3 Early Years Educator Standard
- Training is delivered weekly via a blend of virtual classroom teaching sessions, online learning, workplace learning, written tasks and face to face assessments and sessions with our assessors
- For more information about the apprenticeship training programme, please contact Ria Clifton (Apprenticeship Coordinator) at the Early Years Alliance
ria.clifton@eyalliance.org.uk
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- maths (grade 4/C)
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
- Team working
- Initiative
- Build good relationships
- Positive can do attitude
- Enthusiastic
Other requirements
You may come across a range of family dynamics, this may include the involvement of social services and other outside agencies. We have a high level of children with SEND in setting
About this employer
We are based in a family hub, and next to Macaulay Primary Academy. We are a charity based preschool, with an Ofsted rating of Good
After this apprenticeship
- Once a qualified Early Years Educator, you can work in a variety of roles including; Room Leader, Supervisor, Deputy Manager or as a Childminder
- Progression to higher education, such as Level 5 Diploma for the Early Years Senior Practitioner or a degree in early years education
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001838.
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Closes in 20 days (Friday 12 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
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