Nursery Nurse Apprentice

Little Hummingbird Nursery

Broxbourne (EN10 7AU)

Closes in 24 days (Friday 6 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 12 May 2025

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Summary

Working with young children, encouraging them to develop their social awareness, learn about their environment through play while ensuring individuals needs are met while promoting their welfare.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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The vacancy is term time only.

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Monday, 8.00am - 6.00pm. Tuesday, 8.00am - 6.00pm. Wednesday, 8.00am - 6.00pm. Thursday, 8.00am - 1.00pm. Friday, 8.00am - 6.00pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 23 June 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

  • Encouraging young children to enjoy learning about their environment through play and activities.
  • Encouraging the development of social awareness through interactions with other children.
  • Preparing exciting lessons that make use of visual prompts, audio and colour.
  • Teaching children basic learning tools, such as recognising numbers, shapes, colours or naming everyday objects.
  • Ensuring that children are collected each day by their designated parents, relatives or carers.
  • Ensuring that classrooms and outside play areas are child-friendly and safe.
  • Keeping up to date with early years learning developments, including new activities to try in classes or new styles of teaching.
  • Completing online observations of Key Children.
  • Planning within the team for their designated classroom.
  • Notifying parents of positive progress and suggesting ways to overcome early development problems.

Where you'll work

Park Pavilion
Churchfields
Broxbourne
EN10 7AU

Training

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

College or training organisation

HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE

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

Working towards completing Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship Standard. Work based learning with regular teaching sessions with the Assessor.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4-9)
  • Maths (grade 4-9)

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

Childcare (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
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Patience
  • Reliable
  • Enthusiastic

Other requirements

There will be early starts.

About this company

Our nursery is a bright, beautiful and spacious purposeful space offering a warm and welcoming environment. Located within Broxbourne recreation ground our nursery looks out onto large parklands with the new river flowing close by and a children’s park right next door. A short walk from Broxbourne station, local schools and other amenities. Our environment is flexible, adaptable and centred around the children’s learning to maximise potential, exploring, a love for learning and a home from home experience.

http://littlehummingbirdnursery.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

There will be opportunities for progression and a permanent position subject to performance.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE

The Apprenticeship Team

apprenticeship@hrc.ac.uk

01992411572

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000319908.

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Closes in 24 days (Friday 6 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

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