Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship
TINY TOEZ CHILDRENS DAY NURSERIES LIMITED
Stoke on Trent (ST2 0HW)
Closes in 16 days (Friday 17 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 30 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Planning and delivering a curriculum through play and educational activities. Supervising and leading others in the early years setting.
- 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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Monday to Friday between the hours of 7.30am and 6.00pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 20 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
- Ensuring a safe, secure, and inclusive environment for children
- Supporting and guiding children's learning and development
- Working with families to support the child's progress
- Supervising and leading others in the early years setting
Where you'll work
Treehouse Children’s Centre, Dawlish Drive, Bentilee, Stoke on Trent,
Dawlish Drive Bentilee
Stoke on Trent
ST2 0HW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
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
Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard:
On-the-Job Training:
You will work in an early years setting, applying what you are learning in a practical environment
Off-the-Job Study:
You will undertake formal study through a college or training provider to gain the required knowledge
End-Point Assessment (EPA):
At the end of the apprenticeship, you will undergo an assessment to demonstrate your competence.
This typically includes:
Professional Discussion:
A discussion with an assessor, supported by a portfolio of evidence from your work
Knowledge Test:
An assessment to test your theoretical knowledge
Practical Observation:
An observation of your work with children
More training information
- Attend Monthly virtual masterclasses with other students doing the same apprenticeship and the skills coach
- Off the job training
- Assignments set that have to be recorded
Requirements
Essential 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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
You will be required to have an enhanced DBS check, for this role, with no unspent convictions. Patients, Empathy and understanding are required or this role.
About this employer
Tiny Toez has flourished over the past 20 years, achieving many awards and gaining recognition within the childcare sector. We now have 9 nurseries within our group, 8 in the Midlands and 1 in London.we believe in learning through play, having fun, promoting good manners, nurturing healthy eating habits, and encouraging safe and exciting exploration. Ofsted rating is Outstanding
After this apprenticeship
- Early Years Educator
- Room Leader
- Early Years Lead Practitioner Level 5
- Deputyn Manager
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
Angela Gordon
angela.gordon@junipertraining.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000344307.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 17 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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