Apprentice Early Years Educator - Milverton Pre-school
Somerset County Council
Taunton (TA4 1JP)
Closes in 14 days (Friday 3 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 18 September 2025
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Summary
Are you passionate about working with young children? Milverton Community Primary & Preschool is looking for a dedicated Early Years Apprentice to join our friendly team. You will support the development, wellbeing, and learning of children in a nurturing environment, helping to create a safe and stimulating space for them to grow.
- 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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Up to 30 hours per week, between the hours of 8am to 4.30pm.
Hours will be discussed and decided on during appointment in the position.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 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
- Teach and facilitate children's learning through play
- Apply the observation, assessment, and planning cycle to support progress and children's development
- Be a key person for one or more children
- Interact with children, parents, carers, colleagues, and wider multi-agency professionals. This includes supporting children with SEND
- Be responsible for ensuring a safe and secure environment for children's learning
- Create and plan for the provision of a high-quality play through effective room organisation and provision of resources, both indoors and outdoors, in accordance with the Early Years Foundation Stage
- Ensure that the learning environment and provision is inclusive and supports all children
- Undertake a leadership role within the setting, once training has been given
- Support other staff to develop their skills through peer observations
- To provide flexibility in coverage and care at short notice in the event of unforeseen circumstances
Where you'll work
Milverton
Taunton
TA4 1JP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
RICHARD HUISH TRUST
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
- Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship Standard
- Functional skills in maths & English (Level 2) (if required)
- College sessions, once a fortnight
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade C/4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
- Literacy skills
- Hard working
- Good time management
- Friendly, kind and caring
- Able to follow instructions
- Punctuality
- Keep on top of college work
- Dedicated to apprenticeship
- Ability to maintain records
- Observe and monitor progress
Other requirements
You must undertake a DBS and provide two references. An earlier start date may be considered.
About this employer
Our aim is to help everyone associated with Milverton School and Pre-School feel part of a lively, caring and active learning community. We believe that education is a partnership between parents, staff and children. Education should be fun. Children, like the rest of us, learn so much better when they are enjoying what they are doing. Our school ethos is best reflected in our motto: ‘We Care. We Aspire. We Belong’
After this apprenticeship
- Fully qualified and will be able to apply for a permanent role if available
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RICHARD HUISH TRUST
Apprenticeship Team
apprenticeship@richuish.ac.uk
01823 424603
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342559.
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Closes in 14 days (Friday 3 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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