Early Years Apprentice (Nursery Assistant)
St Barnabas CofE Primary School
Not recorded (BS30 5NW)
Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 2 October 2025
Contents
Summary
St Barnabas is offering an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic early years apprentice to join our expert team. We're expanding our Little Stars nursery to welcome two-year-olds from November. Join our expert team and help shape young lives from the very start.
- Wage
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£12,759.50 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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Term time plus insets 32.5 hours – 8.30am - 3.30pm with one hour unpaid lunch break. Days to be confirmed.
32 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 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
Your duties will include:
- Planning and supervising both child-initiated and adult-led activities that reflect the needs and interests of each child
- Supporting children to develop early numeracy and language skills through games and play
- Meeting the care needs of individual children, such as feeding, changing nappies, and administering medicine where required
- Working in partnership with colleagues, parents/carers, and other professionals to ensure every child’s individual needs are met
- Our aim is to provide children with the highest standard of pre-school education - to learn, have fun, and grow
We’re excited to expand our team with a new Apprentice. We’re a super-friendly team who work with brilliant children, and we’d love to hear from you if you’d like to join us.
Support for Pupils and Families:
- Helping to deliver the EYFS curriculum, ensuring that the individual needs and interests of children are met (working closely with the nursery team)
- Supporting children to broaden and enrich their learning while promoting our key learning values
- Working alongside the nursery team and the SENDCO to help implement relevant support plans
- Providing a high-quality environment that recognises and respects each child’s individual needs, including any additional needs, disabilities, family cultures, and medical histories
- Supporting pupils under the direction of the nursery teacher or EYFS leader
Support for Teachers:
- Collaborating with the nursery team to create an enabling environment and engaging learning opportunities
- Keeping records of your key children’s development and sharing them with parents, carers, and other key adults in the child’s life
- Supporting positive behaviour management in line with the school’s policy
- Helping to maintain a safe and welcoming environment
- Assisting the nursery team with administrative tasks, resource preparation, and classroom displays
Where you'll work
Poplar Close
Warmley
Bristol
Not recorded
BS30 5NW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND STROUD 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
- Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
- Attend our Filton Campus 1 day every fortnight
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
- 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
Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
About this employer
We are a Primary and Early Years Trust dedicated to creating unique primary schools that serve their communities. At The Leaf Trust, we strongly believe in the transformative power of education, both as a means of advancement and as a source of joy. Our mission is simple yet profound: we aim for every individual to feel a deep sense of belonging within their school community and the wider trust community. We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the opportunity to grow through development opportunities and enriching experiences, ultimately leading to success in all aspects of life. We recognise that true collaboration thrives when we work together. As a family of schools, we prioritise the value of sharing knowledge, being inspired, and supporting one another. We actively encourage easy visitation between our schools, allowing for cross-pollination of ideas and collective growth. With an unwavering commitment to excellence, The Leaf Trust is dedicated to providing the highest quality education for all our children, staff, and families. We strive to create an inclusive and nurturing environment where each individual can thrive and succeed.
https://www.stbarnabasprimaryschool.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
After this apprenticeship
- Successful completion of apprenticeship - full time permanent position will be discussed
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
St Barnabas CofE Primary School
Kerri Poole
office@stbarnabasprimaryschool.co.uk
01179092202
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000344618.
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Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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