EARLY YEARS PRACTITIONER LEVEL 3 APPRENTICESHIP
Garstang Community Primary School
Preston (PR3 1HT)
Closes in 22 days (Friday 14 November 2025)
Posted on 21 October 2025
Contents
Summary
Seedlings@GCPS Nursery are looking for an Early Years' Apprentice (Level 3) to join our recently established nursery provision (2-4 years). Are you passionate, motivated, energetic and ready to learn? Do you want to support us in our quest to deliver an outstanding education for children in our area?
- Wage
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£12,759.50 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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Term Time only
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, times to be confirmed.
32 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Thursday 1 January 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- 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
- Starting at 8:30, set up in Nursery.
- During the day, nursery duties include welcoming children, engaging in play and educational activities, preparation of snacks, supervision of snacks and lunchtime, making observations
- Completing Tapestry enties to encourage home - nursery communication.
Where you'll work
Oak Road
Garstang
Preston
PR3 1HT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
EAST LANCASHIRE LEARNING GROUP
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
On-the-job training from experienced professional - training in child development and play-based education. Marketed courses from LCC and other providers where appropriate.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 or better)
- Maths (grade 4 or better)
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
- Team working
- Non judgemental
About this employer
Mission Statement At Garstang Community Primary School we treasure each and every one of our pupils. We create inspirational learning opportunities in a vibrant, supportive environment in which our pupils grow together and are excited about their future in an ever changing world. Aims of our School We recognise the individuality of each of our pupils and nurture them emotionally, socially, spiritually, morally and culturally. We create inspirational learning opportunities within an exciting curriculum which equips our pupils with the skills and knowledge needed to be successful in a dynamic world. Our pupils become enterprising, inquisitive young people with high expectations of themselves and a lifelong love of learning. We develop strong partnerships with parents, creating an atmosphere of mutual trust, and working together to provide the very best for our pupils. We create opportunities for our pupils to be active participants in the local and global communities and to develop an understanding of their place in the world.
After this apprenticeship
To be fully proficient at Level 3.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Garstang Community Primary School
Stephanie Reeves / Yvonne Robinson
01995 603622
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000347503.
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Closes in 22 days (Friday 14 November 2025)
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