Early Years Educator Apprentice - Inspiration Nurseries
DOLPHINS DAY NURSERY
Horsforth (LS18 5JP)
Closes in 2 days (Wednesday 30 September 2026)
Posted on 23 September 2026
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Summary
Start your childcare career with Inspirations Nursery and Forest School! Gain hands-on experience, receive mentoring, and work towards a fully funded Level 3 Early Years qualification, supported by Realise. Our unique approach combines the best of child-led learning with the rich, immersive experiences of the natural world.
- Wage
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£20,832 a year
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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40 hours a week - Monday - Friday (shifts agreed at offer stage).
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 October 2026
- Duration
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1 year 2 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
As an Apprentice Nursery Educator, you will be part of a friendly and supportive team, responsible for a group of key children, planning and completing observations, and ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of all children at all times.
Duties include:
- To provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children in the nursery
- To ensure all children are safeguarded and their welfare and safety is promoted and give support to other team members throughout the nursery
- To work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment
- To maintain the upkeep of your Practical Training Record
- To understand the value and principles of the childcare sector and implant in your daily routine with the children
- To follow the EYFS when caring for children
- To support and promote diversity and equality
- To gain a good understanding of child development and how this is important when caring for children
- To contribute to children’s observations and records when required
- Ensure that you work as part of a team towards a common goal sharing ideas and feedback to create consistency
- To build positive relationships with children, families, colleagues and other professionals
- To understand and promote the ethos of the nursery and uphold the highest standards of childcare
Why Work With Us?
At Inspirations, we do things a little differently. Our unique approach combines the best of child-led learning with the rich, immersive experiences of the natural world. Whether under the canopy of trees or in our thoughtfully designed indoor spaces, every day is an adventure in learning.
- Competitive holiday’s
- Christmas Closure holiday entitlement
- Have your birthday as a holiday without using any holiday
- Five days paid illness allowance per year (pro rata)
- Regular training and development sessions
- A beautiful natural setting to work in
- A warm, inclusive workplace culture
- Staff wellness programs and mental health support
Where you'll work
27 West End Drive
Horsforth
LS18 5JP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. They will provide you with all of the on-the-job training you need to up-skill in your role, and your 20% off-the-job learning will be incorporated as part of your working day.
You will be working towards the Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, which includes:
- Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
- Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid or Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid
- Level 2 Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)
This will be delivered by your dedicated training provider, Realise.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English Language (grade 4)
- Mathematics (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Administrative skills
- Attention to detail
- caring
- Communication Skills
- Creative
- Friendly
- Initiative
- IT skills
- Logical
- Maths and English
- Non judgemental
- Number skills
- Organisation skills
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Presentation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- time keeping
- understanding
Other requirements
Full enhanced DBS required.
About this employer
Inspirations Nurseries and Forest School offer a different kind of childcare. Outdoor play, creativity, and child centred learning based on Reggio Emilia and Scandinavian Forest School are our core values.
Please take a look at what we do, or better still visit us. We’d love to meet you and help you discover if we are the right nursery for you and your child.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
To progress to higher qualification, gain full time employment.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
Mohammad Ali
Mohammad.Ali@realisetraining.com
0333 444 3973
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000055201.
Apply now
Closes in 2 days (Wednesday 30 September 2026)
After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.