Apprentice Nursery Assistant
CT Skills
33 Derby Road, Nottingham (NG1 5AW)
Closes in 28 days (Friday 19 June 2026)
Posted on 21 May 2026
Contents
Summary
St Joseph's are a hidden gem in the busy city centre and want you to join their team to give young children the best start in their early lives. They pride themselves on the diversity of their children, providing a safe, calm and supportive environment.
- Wage
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£16,640 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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Monday - Friday 8.00am - 4.45pm or 9.15am - 6.00pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 22 June 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
- Contributing to a programme of activities that meet the individual needs and interests of the children
- Recording children's learning and development journeys and to then communicate these with parents, carers, and other key adults
- Being actively engaged in great team working
- Liaising with and supporting parents, carers, and other family members
- Participating in the high-quality care and supervision of all children
- Attending activities that are out of working hours (e.g. staff meetings, training, and events etc.)
- Being flexible and to prepared to help where needed (including domestic jobs e.g. preparing meals and cleaning toys etc.)
- Following the ethos of the nursery, creating a warm and friendly environment
- Working alongside the nursery manager and staff team
- Ensuring that EYFS is promoted efficiently and that its policies are followed correctly
- Ensuring great customer service
- Helping with the smooth running of the nursery
- Reading, understanding, and adhering to all policies and procedures relevant to your role as deemed appropriate by the nursery manager
- Minimum of 6 hours per week spent on apprenticeship work and training
Where you'll work
33 Derby Road, Nottingham
NG1 5AW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CT SKILLS 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
You'll attend monthly 1-2-1 meetings (online via teams every month - NO classroom OR college!) with your tutor and learn about modules including risk management, key person and attachment, learning and development, and more! You will be given a minimum of 3 hours per week to complete any apprenticeship work (assignments, research, and projects) and will receive at least another 3 hours of training from your employer.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent 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
- Creative
- Customer care skills
- Initiative
- Logical
- Non judgemental
- Organisation skills
- Patience
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
About this employer
St Joseph's offers a Nursery education full of wonder and excitement and with so much to see and do, the children soon develop a love of learning about the world around them. In addition to all the activities and toys available in the rooms, the children visit the school library, take part in PE, have French lessons, cook, go on walks to see some of the City's local attractions, they even manage to squeeze in some IT!
After this apprenticeship
As with any apprenticeship opportunity - if you prove yourself to be a valuable member of the team there is a strong chance of a permanent post within the business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CT SKILLS LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000033021.
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Closes in 28 days (Friday 19 June 2026)
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