Early Years Apprentice
APPY LITTLE PLUMS LTD
Leigh (WN7 5JL)
Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 31 March 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 17 March 2026
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Summary
You will undertake the Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, working within our nursery setting, learning on the job.
- Wage
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£12,480 to £19,827.60, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday (times to be confirmed).
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 14 April 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
- Stimulating children’s learning abilities, often through experiences
- Contributing to the development of a child’s personal, social, language and physical coordination abilities
- Producing teaching resources
- Keeping an eye on each child’s progress, assessing and recording their improvements
- Instilling children with natural curiosity and knowledge
- Communicating with parents
- Keeping up to date with the curriculum and best practices
Where you'll work
The Hall
Alma Street
Leigh
WN7 5JL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REAL SKILLS TRAINING LTD
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
As part of this apprenticeship, you will undertake the Level 2 Early Years Practitioner standard. In addition, you will undertake other CPD related courses as part of your employment, such as Food Hygiene and Paediatric First Aid and Safeguarding Children.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 5 and above)
- Maths (grade 5 and above)
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
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Friendly approach
- Punctual
- Reliable
About this employer
Appy Little Plums Ltd Day Nursery is a family run business managed by owner Vicky Halliwell. Recently graded as Outstanding by OFSTED.
The nursery is registered on the Early Years Register. A maximum of 54 children can attend the nursery at any one time.
We aim to provide a fun, loving and nurturing environment where our children will thrive and learn through play.
Company benefits
- Discounted childcare
- Company events
- Onsite parking
After this apprenticeship
We support any aspirations staff have for furthering their qualifications, whether this be further CPD or, as your career develops, L3 or L5 qualifications.
We aim for all staff to hold a Paediatric First Aid certificate, which is regularly updated, along with training in Child Protection, Health and Safety, Food Hygiene and Manual Handling.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REAL SKILLS TRAINING LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000021475.
Apply now
Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 31 March 2026 at 11:59pm)