Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship at The Olive Tree Nursery, Bridgwater
The Olive Tree Nursery
Somerset (TA6 5HT)
Closes in 17 days (Friday 10 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 23 September 2025
Contents
Summary
The role of the Nursery Apprentice is to ensure all children attending The Olive Tree Nursery receive high quality care, are kept safe and are provided with planned and stimulating play experiences which meet their individual needs and support all aspects of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 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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Work 37 hours between Monday and Friday 8am - 6pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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2
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
Roles and Responsibility Checklist:
Detailed below are the principal tasks and activities associated with your role. Please ensure you have read and understood them as they form part of your overall Contract of Employment with the nursery. Activities and tasks are carried out on a daily, weekly or as required basis. Nursery management will be responsible for working with you to establish, maintain and monitor that the activities and tasks are being performed to the nursery standards.
Your role will be as set out in this job description but please note that the manager reserves the right to update your job description, from time to time, to reflect changes in, or to, your job. You will be consulted about any proposed changes. The list of duties in the job description should not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive
Your role will be appraised on a regular basis during which your performance will be reviewed and assessed in accordance with personal and nursery aims and objectives. Please ensure you are very familiar with the checklist below as this details the key activities and responsibilities by which the nursery will gauge your performance. If you are in any doubt about the role or would like to obtain further guidance, mentoring or training then the nursery is only too happy to assist.
Personal Responsibilities:
- To ensure that when leaving the room for other activities or purposes, that staff are aware of where you are going and the duration. When leaving the room to ensure that it will not compromise the existing staff or impose undue pressure on their abilities to perform the childcare
- Work in partnership with early years professionals, for example Health Visitors and SEN services
Within reason to comply with requests to work outside normal hours, for example to cover if staff unexpectedly have to leave the room or are called away. This includes requests from the nursery to work long days from time to time.
- Participate in room meetings
- Attending and taking part in staff meetings
- Provide high quality care and activities for the children and to recognise both individual and group requirements in a secure, safe and stimulating environment
- Ensure you are familiar with the key policies and procedures, especially safeguarding children, equal opportunities, behaviour management and health and safety. You will be provided with access to copies of the nursery’s policies and procedures
- Undertake other duties appropriate to the grade and character of the work as may reasonably be required by the Nursery
- Assist others within their roles i.e. SENDCo, Cook etc.
- Attend training and development courses as directed by your manager or assessor
- To promote at all times good relations between staff members, parents and children, and promote the quality ethos of the nursery
Where you'll work
Westonzoyland Road
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 5HT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOMERSET SKILLS & LEARNING CIC
Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
- Early Years Educator Level 3
- Training will include paediatric first aid qualification
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- maths (grade 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
Successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check. Please consider how you will travel to the place of work, particularly if you rely on public transport.
About this employer
We are a busy full day nursery, with 4 rooms. We take children from 0 to school age. We are open all year round, Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm. We offer additional training for all staff.
http://www.theolivetreenursery.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Day off for Birthday, onsite parking, ongoing CPD, good progression routes.
After this apprenticeship
At The Olive Tree Nursery, we have great career progression routes. We currently have staff that have progressed from Apprentice to management team.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SOMERSET SKILLS & LEARNING CIC
SS&L the training provider
enquiries@sslcourses.co.uk
0330 332 7997
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000342775.
Apply now
Closes in 17 days (Friday 10 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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