Nursery Apprentice
FIRST STEPS DAY NURSERY(B&H) LTD
BASILDON (SS13 3EA)
Closes in 24 days (Monday 3 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 October 2025
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Summary
The Nursery Apprentice will support with all aspects of caring for children including washing, changing, feeding. The apprentice will assist with meeting the personal and emotional needs of individual children and provide adult interaction with children in the nursery. The learner will complete Early Years Educator level 3 apprenticeship.
- 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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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 3.00pm.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 10 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
- Supporting and caring for the children individually, interacting with them and educating them according to our curriculum
- Learning and developing practical skills
- Participating in classes and workshops both on and offsite
- Observing all health and safety codes
- Completing tests and assignments
- Delivering presentations to staff and other stakeholders
Where you'll work
ROKESCROFT
BASILDON
SS13 3EA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
VOCATIONAL TRAINING SERVICES CARE SECTOR 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
- This apprenticeship is work based and therefore training will take place at the workplace
- The successful candidate will have gained an Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship with Vocational Training Services after successful completion
- Functional Skills English and maths will also be completed if required
- Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification
- First Aid
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
- IT skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Patience
About this employer
First Steps is a privately owned nursery and out-of-school facility that has been established in Pitsea for 21 years. Our well-experienced staff are all fully qualified with DBS checks and have excellent references. Their aim is to provide a warm caring environment in safe and secure surroundings whilst allowing the children to have fun, make new friends and develop their skills by having their individual needs supported by a key person. We work closely with families, local children centres and schools to provide the best possible support for every child whilst on their journey to independence. We follow all regulatory requirements and are rated GOOD by OFSTED.
After this apprenticeship
- The applicant would be expected to remain in our employment for at least one year
- After completing the apprenticeship course, there will be the opportunity to become a fully qualified working member of staff
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
VOCATIONAL TRAINING SERVICES CARE SECTOR LIMITED
Elizabeth Richards
elizabethrichards@vts.ac.uk
01702353557
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345986.
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Closes in 24 days (Monday 3 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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