Apprentice Early Years Educator

RYDAL DAY NURSERY LTD

CLEVEDON (BS21 7RP)

Closes on Sunday 17 August 2025

Posted on 8 May 2025

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Summary

We are looking for a fun, enthusiastic and passionate individual who is ready to create an inviting environment and help children learn through play. Our apprentice will be somebody who can laugh, play, help and support the children within our setting, whilst undertaking their own learning and development.

Wage

£13,072 a year

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Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Days to be discussed, flexible for the right candidate. Half an hour paid lunchbreak (staff must remain on-site)

30 hours a week

Start date

Monday 8 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

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

Key Person
• To complete observations both singular and group
to a high standard and upload to the children’s
online diary in line with managers expectations
• To sit with new families during their first settling in
session to discuss the childs starting points/
interests, likes and dislikes completing their ‘All
about me’ profile and permissions before the
parents leave.
• To complete a review around 6 weeks after key
child’s start date and share with parents at a
scheduled review meeting.
• To complete termly reviews summarising key
child’s learning and development, celebrating their
successes and devising targets to support their
next steps.
• Following reviews, complete tracking for parent/
child manager to create nursery overview.
• To attend each parents evening (three times a
year), discussing key child’s progress and
encouraging parent input for next steps.
• To monitor key children who are on an IPP,
ensuring written observations are completed each
week on any planned IPP targets.
Practitioner
• To arrive ten minutes before the shift commences,
to ensure that you are ready to begin at your
allocated shift time.
• To arrive 15 minutes early when rostered to
complete daily opening checks effectively and
signing of every check.
• To ensure the handover board is always up to date
and visible to parents at both drop off and pick up
times.
• To implement planning, in line with the EYFS and
provide exceptional learning opportunities for the
children.
• To attend monthly room and staff meetings,
sharing ideas and actively partaking in ideas to
develop the nursery forward, taking notes and
signing to say you have read the minutes following
the meeting.
• To correctly complete accident, incident forms and
disclosure forms and ensure they are signed by
the parent and handed over at the end of the
session.
CPD/ Supervision
• To complete regular supervisions and annual
appraisals and work towards targets set between
yourself and the management team.

Where you'll work

11 ALBERT ROAD
CLEVEDON
BS21 7RP

Training

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

College or training organisation

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

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

  • You will be pursuing a Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard as an Early Years Educator, through Weston College
  • As part of this program, you will attend Weston College as instructed by the college.
  • An assessor will conduct on-site observation to evaluate your progress, as well as supporting you in college throughout your apprenticeship
  • At the conclusion of your program, your qualification will be assessed through an End Point Assessment

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4/C+)
  • Maths (grade 4/C+)

Desirable qualifications

BTEC in:

Early Years (grade Pass)

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
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental

Other requirements

Essential qualifications and certificates: • Paediatric First Aid • Basic Child Protection (Training will be given) • Food Hygiene and Allergy Awareness (Training will be given) • COSHH (Training will be given) • FGM, Arranged Marriage, Witchcraft, Prevent Duty and British values (Training will be given) Ability to use Makaton (in house training can be provided)

About this company

At Rydal Day Nursery, we are passionate about implementing an engaging, informative and positive environment where children flourish and learn. As a setting, we are proud to offer care that provides children with the base knowledge and learning they need in their early years. We use this knowledge to develop skills and attributes that will support children in their later years. At Rydal Day Nursery, each of our rooms boasts a variety of areas to promote different areas of learning. Each room has a cosy area, mark making/literacy, construction, messy play and role play. As well as this, we have a variety of resources that are provided to encourage children to explore and extend their interests and ideas.

https://www.rydaldaynursery.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

- Company health plan - Christmas week off, staff socials, - Free CPD training, - Career progression, - Pension membership, - Staff discount

After this apprenticeship

There is opportunity for career progression within Rydal to senior
and management roles.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Sharna Thomson

sharna.thomson@weston.ac.uk

01934411594

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318461.

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Closes on Sunday 17 August 2025

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