Early Year Educator Apprentice (Level 3)

Summary

Responsible for providing the best possible standards of care and education, as well as ensuring the environment is safe and secure, where the children are valued as individuals through a loving and child-centred approach.

Wage

£15,600 a year

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Training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Hours

Working Days and times: Monday to Wednesday, 7.30am - 6.00pm.

30 hours a week

Start date

Friday 1 August 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

Responsible for providing the best possible standards of care and education, as well as ensuring the environment is safe and secure, where the children are valued as individuals through a loving and child-centred approach. They must ensure the children have access to play opportunities throughout their time at the setting; providing activities which are stimulating and fun. They will be responsible for following policies and procedures and refer any matters to senior members of staff. They will be responsible for a key group of children, they will form strong relationships with the parents and communicate to them about their child’s development.

Responsibilities:

To assist in providing a safe, supportive and caring environment for children in the care of Greenside Care Club; to ensure that all aspects of each individual child’s development are given full consideration.
To provide a broad and balanced Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum
To observe, record and monitor children’s development
To be proactive in the process of planning and developing children’s play, by organising, supporting and taking part in play activities
To act as a positive role model for children.
To ensure that communication with children, parents and the staff team is polite and courteous at all times.
To liaise and provide professional advice to parents and other professionals that are involved with the child.
To assist in offering support to parents and families where necessary.
To develop a thorough knowledge of all of the settings operational policies and procedures; ensuring that they are followed and respected at all times.
To maintain confidentiality procedures about all issues related to children and their families, your own and other staff members issues and any other management or operational issues.
To maintain and follow all Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times including reading and following risk assessments.
To ensure that accident and medication forms are completed and reported to supervisor/manager when required.
To ensure any incidents are reported to supervisor/manager
To understand and respect the need for consistency of care for the children – report for duty on time, maintain regular attendance, give appropriate notice of holiday requests and report nonattendance through sickness promptly and appropriately.
To follow all routines, duties, timetables, rotas, record keeping activities and any other reasonable duty as requested by your manager or deputy manager.
To ensure that clean and hygienic standards are maintained at all times. This includes daily cleaning rotas and other nursery/housekeeping duties.
To take responsibility for continued professional development by attending courses (in-house and external), staff meetings/training, receiving constructive feedback and reading relevant material.

Where you'll work

GREENSIDE SCHOOL
CHAPELTOWN
PUDSEY
WEST YORKSHIRE
LS28 8NZ

Training

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

College or training organisation

LUMINATE EDUCATION GROUP

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 work towards a Level 3 Early years educator apprenticeship qualification. Functional Skills in maths and English, if required
Paediatric first aid qualification.

You will be mainly work based, ie the assessor will visit you in the workplace, however you will visit college 1 x day per month.
You will have 6 hours off the job training to complete each week.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade Grade 4 / C)
Maths (grade Grade 4 / C)

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
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Physical fitness
Honest and reliable
Patient and empathetic
Enthusiastic and committed

About this company

Greenside Care Club is a parent committee organisation situated on the site of Greenside Primary school, Pudsey providing childcare for children ages 3-11 years. We provide early education for children ages 3-4 years, before and after school care for children ages 3-11 years and holiday play scheme care for children ages 3-11 years.

https://greensidecareclub.org.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

TBC.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LUMINATE EDUCATION GROUP

Leeds City College Apprenticeships

apprenticeships@leedscitycollege.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000325379.

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