Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship
Little Hands Daycare - Amblecote
STOURBRIDGE (DY8 4BS)
Closes in 13 days (Friday 10 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 26 September 2025
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Summary
The Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship trains learners to support children’s development, learning, and care from birth to age 5. It covers safeguarding, health, play, and communication, preparing apprentices to work in nurseries, preschools, and childcare settings with professional competence.
- Wage
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£15,704 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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7:30 am - 6pm Monday - Friday
Maximum 40 hours per week
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 20 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
- Assist in creating a safe, secure, and inclusive environment for children
- Support the planning, preparation, and delivery of age-appropriate activities in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
- Help to observe, record, and assess children’s development, contributing to individual learning journeys
- Promote positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues
- Encourage children’s independence, self-esteem, and confidence through play and learning
- Maintain high standards of safeguarding, health, safety, and hygiene at all times
- Take part in training, reflective practice, and team meetings to support your learning and development
Where you'll work
102-104 BRETTELL LANE
STOURBRIDGE
DY8 4BS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
HALESOWEN COLLEGE
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 delivered through workplace learning, online study, and two face-to-face lessons per month at Halesowen College. Focus on child development, safeguarding, curriculum planning, assessment, and professional practice, with ongoing workplace observations and portfolio building.
Training will include paediatric first aid qualification.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
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
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
It is essential that you pass a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to be eligible for this role.
About this employer
Little Hands Daycare in Amblecote, Stourbridge, is an award-winning nursery renowned for its exceptional early years education. Located at 102–104 Brettell Lane, DY8 4BS, this nursery offers high-quality childcare for children aged birth to five years. It is part of the Little Hands Daycare Group Ltd, which also operates nurseries in Bromsgrove and Stourbridge
After this apprenticeship
After a Level 3 Early Years Apprenticeship, you can progress into roles such as Nursery Practitioner, Room Leader, or Deputy Manager. With experience, you may advance to Nursery Manager or open your own setting. Further study could lead to teaching, early years leadership, or specialist roles in SEN or safeguarding.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HALESOWEN COLLEGE
Tess Harris
tessharris@halesowen.ac.uk
01216027777
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000343975.
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Closes in 13 days (Friday 10 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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