Childcare Apprenticeship - Leighton Buzzard

CHILDBASE PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

Leighton Buzzard (LU7 2PA)

Closes in 30 days (Sunday 1 June 2025)

Posted on 30 April 2025

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Summary

We have an opportunity for you to join us at Childbase Partnership, an employee-owned company, in the role of Apprentice at our Cedars Day Nursery on Mentmore Road, Leighton Buzzard, Beds, LU7 2PA.

Wage

£17,130.75 a year

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We are offering a pay rate of £7.57 per hour. After 6 months in post, the pay rate will increase to £10.00 per hour.

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Varied shifts between the hours of 7.30am - 6.30pm, Monday - Friday.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

2

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

  • You will work as part of a team to create and maintain a safe and supportive environment which enables children to confidently explore, experiment and grow and you will ensure every child's individual care needs are met
  • Under the guidance of your colleagues, you will plan activities and observe and monitor children's progress, making appropriate links to the EYFS 
  • You will respectfully engage with parents, colleagues and external professionals in order to successfully work in partnership

Where you'll work

Mentmore Road
Leighton Buzzard
LU7 2PA

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

CHILDBASE PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

Your 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.

Your training plan

We are offering the Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification, including Paediatric First Aid, subject to initial assessment. The apprenticeship will last 18-20 months and you will gain hands-on experience working with children aged 0-5 years in a nursery environment. Your assessor will visit you every 4-6 weeks at the nursery and you will attend monthly training sessions at our Central Support Office in Newport Pagnell. You will have some time within your working hours each week to start your coursework. You will be required to finish your coursework at home and must ensure you submit it by the deadline set by your Assessor.

If you don’t hold GCSEs at grade 4 or above in English and maths you will complete Functional Skills qualifications with us alongside the early years course.

Apprentices must successfully a first aid qualification in line with the requirements of the EYFS Framework.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • English (grade C/4 or above)
  • Maths (grade C/4 or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Team working
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this company

At Childbase Partnership we have been delivering childcare excellence since 1989. Our mission is to give children the best possible start in life and instil a lifelong passion for learning. Across all 44-day nurseries, Head Office, and our Training Academy of Excellence, our dedicated colleagues work together to create a lasting, positive impact in our local communities. We are determined to be excellent and constantly strive for the best outcomes, not only for the children in our care but for every colleague too. What makes us special? • We are 100% employee-owned – which means we are all partners, we all have a meaningful voice, and we own our future (this includes sharing profits too, tax-free). • ‘Number 1’ - we have earned the top spot in the prestigious Nursery World league tables for our Ofsted outcomes, all thanks to our extraordinary colleagues. • Record-breaking Green Flag achievements, and climate-positive status - we save more CO2 than we create (take that, climate change!). • Planting in excess of 2,000 trees in the Eden Restoration project - because the planet needs a hug too. • Over £3.5 million raised for charity – we’re basically fundraising superheroes (without the capes).

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After this apprenticeship

When you join our partnership, you will be greatly rewarded with a range of benefits, which include:

  • A ‘congratulations’ payment of £300 once you have successfully completed the level 3 apprenticeship
  • The potential for an annual tax-free dividend payment
  • ‘Recommend a friend’ bonuses of £1000 every time you
  • Successfully refer someone to join our partnership
  • Childcare discount from day one; 75% for your children and/or 40% for your grandchildren
  • Fully paid enhanced DBS check
  • Complimentary breakfast, lunch and refreshments when you are at work
  • 23 days of annual leave plus bank holidays and there is the option to buy and sell days
  • Annual conference and awards event, at which individual and team achievements are recognised
  • Please note, terms and conditions apply to some of our benefits and financial rewards

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CHILDBASE PARTNERSHIP LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318105.

Apply now

Closes in 30 days (Sunday 1 June 2025)

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Company’s application instructions

Please apply via the advert on our careers site and our recruitment team will contact you to discuss your application. To satisfy the funding criteria, this role is open to you if you are able to evidence you have the right to work and study in the UK, you have resided here for at least 3 years before the start of the apprenticeship, and you can provide photographic ID in the form of a passport or driving licence.  If you are not able to meet this criteria, your application will be rejected.