Early years educator Level 3 Apprenticeship
HAPPY TREE ACADEMY LTD
Northwood (HA6 1HR)
Closes in 30 days (Saturday 8 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 8 October 2025
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Summary
This is an exciting opportunity, offering the successful applicant to on and off the job training. You will receive a recognised qualification whilst gaining hands on experience.
- Wage
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£15,704 a year
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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30-hours per week - shift work, exact working days and hours TBC
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 9 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 4 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
- Promote children’s personal, social, emotional, physical, and educational development in line with planned objectives
- Ensure the safety, welfare, and well-being of all children in your care
- Assist with daily routines and supervision, offering individual support to help children stay focused and engaged
- Provide physical care for children, including feeding, changing, and general hygiene
- Prepare resources, materials, and displays that stimulate learning and communication
- Build strong, effective relationships with children, parents, carers, and staff through clear and supportive communication
- Maintain a clean, safe, and well-organised learning environment, including care of toys and equipment
- Participate in observations, assessments, and report writing to support children’s development
- Attend staff meetings, training sessions, and development reviews as required
- Be flexible and willing to support in other rooms or areas of the Nursery when needed
Where you'll work
20 Chestnut Avenue
Northwood
HA6 1HR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE RECALVI ENTERPRISE 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
- Early Years Educator Level 3
- Training will include paediatric first aid qualification
- Online teams' lessons
- Qualified tutors
- 6 hours paid study a week
- Lessons every two weeks
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
- Organisation skills
- Creative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
To be able to pay for a DBS check approx. £58. Be local to Northwood. Enthusiastic nature. Committed and reliable. Empathetic and caring.
About this employer
Happy Tree is an award-winning nursery in the north London and outskirts area. We are committed to growing well rounded early years practitioners, confident in their knowledge and practice. Our ethos is “children are the centre of all we do”, so we are really looking for dedicated empathetic professional for this role!
http://happytreeacademy.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
A day off on your birthday Birthday gift Care packages Ad hoc treats
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Room leader
- Special Educational Needs Coordinator
- Progress to level 5 Early Years Educator
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE RECALVI ENTERPRISE LTD
Jemima Woolnough
Jemima.woolnough@apprenticeshipconnect.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345605.
Apply now
Closes in 30 days (Saturday 8 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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