Apprentice Nursery Practitioner
ORCHIDALE CHILDRENS NURSERY LTD
NORWICH (NR8 6HT)
Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 1 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 17 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Provide quality care and learning for children aged 0–5, maintain a safe nursery environment, build strong family partnerships, support individual needs, complete apprenticeship tasks and studies, follow guidance from management, and adhere to all policies outlined in the Employee Handbook.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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30 hours per week varied shift patterns.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 14 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
- To act as a key person as appropriate.
- Promote good health and take positive action to prevent the spread of infections, ensuring policies are in place to deal effectively with accidents and illness.
- Promote equality and diversity, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practices and opportunities.
- To support the identification and development of appropriate opportunities for special and individual needs appropriate to learning, behaviour and disabilities and in line with SEN code of practice.
- Assist the Room Lead to develop and maintain an appropriate child discipline procedures, which is applied consistently by all adults within the nursery.
- Encourage independence, development confidence and self-esteem.
- Plan, develop and review play activities, utilising appropriate resources to increase learning opportunities, which build on language and numeracy development, use of imagination and creativity.
- Develop positive social relationships, within peer and older groups and family settings.
- Maintain high expectations of children’s achievements, encouraging value and respect and developing listening techniques in children and staff.
- Enable routine opportunities for relaxation.
- Provide opportunities that enable children to work towards the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum, planned and delivered by the Nursery team.
- Assist the Lead Practitioner to promote child welfare and develop partnership with parents and family and other related parties.
- To liaise with colleagues when finishing a shift, advising them of any information that is to be relayed to the parents when the child is collected from nursery.
Where you'll work
NURSERY BUNGALOW
FIR COVERT ROAD
TAVERHAM
NORWICH
NR8 6HT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CITY COLLEGE NORWICH
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.
Training schedule
- Once a week delivered at the City College Norwich, Ipswich Road Campus.
- Learning alongside working with the employer.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (Language or Literature) (grade 4/C)
- Mathematics (grade 4/C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
At Orchidale, we treat children as individuals, recognising each child’s unique learning style and interests. Our flexible curriculum is child-led, inspiring, creative and meaningful, our team highly qualified and experienced. We are passionate about learning and are determined to give our children the best opportunities possible. Our home-from-home rooms and family ethos ensure children feel safe, secure and valued. In such a warm, nurturing environment, children are happy, confident and ready to learn. We tailor make each child’s learning to suit their needs, and therefore we soon see their independence and love of learning grow. Our nursery is a loving and stimulating community where children are encouraged to respect one another, as well as the world around them.
After this apprenticeship
There is future potential to continue working as a level 3 practitioner with Orchidale- we have a wide range of training opportunities available such as forest school practitioner, SEN, higher level training such as EYTS.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CITY COLLEGE NORWICH
City College Norwich
apprenticeships@ccn.ac.uk
01603773365
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342508.
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Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 1 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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