Early Years Apprentice
TODDLERS INN LTD
LEWES (BN8 4DB)
Closes on Friday 31 October 2025
Posted on 24 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Join our Fantastic team, lots of opportunities, various age groups including a Forest School and Allotment. Animals to take care of and a minibus for fun trips with the children! Learn on the job, caring for children from 0-5yrs, guaranteed Christmas break and bank holidays off. Open from 8am-6pm all year round, approximately 30-40hrs per week
- Wage
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£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday between 8.00am and 6.00pm.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Saturday 1 November 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
- Providing care and education for children aged 0-5yrs
- Fun in the outdoors with forest school, allotment and minibus trips
- Creating open ended, child-led learning opportunities fro children
- Working within a team, with lots of training opportunities funded by the nursey
Where you'll work
EAST GRINSTEAD ROAD
NORTH CHAILEY
LEWES
BN8 4DB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CLEARLINE RECRUITMENT LTD
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
- Training will be provided by Clearline (Next Steps) Apprenticeship programme
- The course will be the Early Years Educator Level 3 (or 2 if deemed necessary)
- Onsite at Toddlers Inn Nursery with regilary visits from a Skills Coach
- Maths and English functional skills will be provided if you do not have them
- The nursery will provide food hygiene, first aid and safeguarding training amongst others which are available through our online training platform Noodle Now
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
Other requirements
The vacancy will involve working outdoors in all weathers to ensure children access our outdoor learning areas, forest school and allotment
About this employer
Toddlers Inn Nursery is a small bustling company, with a great team and family feel, we have been caring for children aged 0-5 years for the last 10 years in North Chailey. We care about our team, our families and our children, ensuring we support each other and provide fantastic opportunities for children and apprentices to learn in.
After this apprenticeship
- This qualification can lead onto further training, Level 5, Foundation degree or EY Teacher training
- You can use this training to progress onto Room Leader, Supervisor ot Manager levels
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
TODDLERS INN LTD
Sabrina Watt
toddlers777@gmail.com
01825721800
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000343548.
Apply now
Closes on Friday 31 October 2025
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