Apprentice Level 3 Early Years Educator
WILLOWS MONTESSORI NURSERY LTD
Crawcrook (NE40 4TZ)
Closes in 13 days (Friday 10 April 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 27 March 2026
Contents
Summary
Welcome to Willows Montessori Nurseries!
We are a small, family-run business offering a friendly, child-centred approach to learning, following the Montessori method of education.
- Wage
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£14,976 to £23,793.12, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday shift pattern
7.30am - 6pm or 7.45am - 6.15pm over 3.5 days per week
Early shift - 8am - 2pm
Late shift - 12noon - 6pm
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 20 April 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
- Plan and develop activities that meet the individual needs and interests of children in your care in conjunction with other team members
- To work collaboratively with other staff and engage in a good staff team
- To work alongside the Manager, Montessori Teacher and staff team to ensure that the Montessori principles and practices are fulfilled
- To act as key person to a group of children
- To carry out appropriate observations of your key children to share with parents and to keep a record of individual children’s development
- To develop and maintain strong partnerships and communications with parents/carers to facilitate day-to-day caring and early learning needs
- To regularly communicate with parents about their child’s development and progress
- Liaise with and support parents and other family members as require
- To be actively involved in activities outside of usual working hours, including team meetings, training events, parent's evenings, open days and fundraising events
- Plus, other duties
Where you'll work
Willows Montessori Nursery
Chamberlain Street
Crawcrook
NE40 4TZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SKILLS NORTH EAST 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
- Early Years Educator Level 3
- Training will include paediatric first aid qualification
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Other 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
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Punctual
- Kind and caring
Other requirements
- Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- Level 2 Early Years qualification or
- Experience working in a nursery
About this employer
Our nursery in Crawcrook opened its doors in 2023, and is committed to providing high standards and quality of education.
We provide high-quality, full and part-time care and education for children aged birth to five years, across our nursery in Crawcrook village.
Choosing a nursery for your child is a big decision. We hope that by visiting our nurseries and witnessing our warm and friendly staff at work, you will feel more at ease and safe in the knowledge that your child will be lovingly cared for in our nurseries.
Company benefits
- Training opportunities
- Childcare discount
- Team building opportunities
- Company pension
After this apprenticeship
Growth within the company is possible after completion of apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SKILLS NORTH EAST LIMITED
Cathryn
cathryn@sne.org.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000023767.
Apply now
Closes in 13 days (Friday 10 April 2026 at 11:59pm)