Early Years Educator Apprenticeship

JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED

Wednesbury (WS10 0ED)

Closes in 17 days (Friday 27 March 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 10 March 2026

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Summary

  • Working with children from birth to 5 years, supporting their learning, development and wellbeing in early years settings.
  • You’ll achieve a Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification, which is widely respected across the childcare sector.

Wage

£15,600 a year

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Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday, between the hours of 7.30am - 6.00pm. You will work 37.5 hours per week, to be agreed based on a staffing timetable. Will study time for your apprenticeship planned out and timetabled.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 30 March 2026

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

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

  • Support the planning and delivery of activities linked to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).
  • Assist with observing children and recording their progress.
  • Help create a safe, stimulating, and welcoming learning environment.
  • Provide high‑quality care, including feeding, toileting, and personal care.
  • Build positive relationships with children, parents, and colleagues.
  • Follow safeguarding procedures and report concerns to the
  • Designated Safeguarding Lead.
  • Maintain hygiene and safety standards, including cleaning and risk checking areas.
  • Support children’s independence, communication, and social development.
  • Help set up and tidy away resources, equipment, and learning areas.
  • Contribute to daily routines such as mealtimes, sleep times, and transitions.
  • Use positive behaviour strategies to support children’s emotional wellbeing.
  • Attend training, staff meetings, and complete apprenticeship tasks and portfolio work.

Where you'll work

146A Crankhall Lane
Wednesbury
WS10 0ED

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

Training will take place on the job at the nursery setting and masterclasses through the training provider virtually online. 

More training information

The Training through Juniper Training will be on a mandatory virtual  masterclass on a monthly basis that can be done on a device from the nursery setting. 

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
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness

About this employer

Helping children to be more mindful is a powerful gift. By being mindful they will learn to recognise and manage their emotions, be more able to calm down when they are upset, become better at focusing on important tasks and more able to interact with others with empathy and generosity. Mindfulness sessions and activities are incorporated into our curriculum and include children’s yoga, meditation, singing and discussing our worries using our ‘worry monster’. In addition we have a range of personal, social and emotional literature which can help support some challenging experiences and understand some complex situations children may face.

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After this apprenticeship

  • Room Leader.
  • Team Leader.
  • Qualified Early years educator can be counted in ratio.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED

Paul Nightingale

paul.nightingale@junipertraining.co.uk

07395789959

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000020183.

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Closes in 17 days (Friday 27 March 2026 at 11:59pm)