Early Years Practitioner Apprentice
SHOOTING STARS CHILDCARE
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, Wallsend
Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 October 2025
Contents
Summary
As an EY Practitioner, you will be committed to supporting children’s development in a fun, nurturing and inclusive environment. If you have the energy, passion and flair to work within a busy and vibrant early years’ setting, working with children from birth to 5 years, this is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, vibrant and growing team.
- 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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7:30am - 6:00pm Monday-Friday
(you will work a minimum 30 hours).
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 27 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
- Maintaining accurate records of children’s development and sharing progress with parents and carers.
- Building strong, positive relationships with families to enhance children’s care and learning experiences.
- Supporting room routines, activities and daily planning as directed by the Room Lead.
- Help create a safe, stimulating and inclusive learning environment that considers all children’s cultural, medical and developmental needs.
- Ensuring the health, safety and welfare of every child at all times.
- Adhering to all nursery policies, procedures and legislative requirements.
- Promoting positive behaviour and acting as a role model for healthy, respectful and inclusive values.
- Contribute to regular cleaning, hygiene and safety checks.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- BENFIELD SPORTS CENTRE, BENFIELD ROAD, WALKERGATE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 4NU
- 92 Station Road, Wallsend, NE28 6TD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SKILLS NORTH EAST 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
Your apprenticeship training will be delivered by Skills North East.
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
- resilience
- Passionate
- Willing to Learn
Other requirements
Enhanced DBS check.
About this employer
Founded in 2019, Shooting Stars Childcare have sites based in Wallsend and Walkergate and offer childcare for ages 0-5 years. They are Ofsted registered good and are currently expanding their teams.
After this apprenticeship
Progression opportunities within the organisation once qualified.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SKILLS NORTH EAST LIMITED
Dawn Fish
dawn@sne.org.uk
0191 2504596
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345544.
Apply now
Closes in 14 days (Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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