Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship
Lobley Hill Primary School
Gateshead (NE11 0AT)
Closes in 15 days (Monday 10 November 2025)
Posted on 21 October 2025
Contents
Summary
Lobley Hill Primary School are looking to appoint a Level 3 Early Years Teaching Assistant Apprentice to work within our well-established and popular Nursery unit. If you are interested in starting a career in education/early years, then we would be delighted to welcome you into our team.
- Wage
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£14,526.20 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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Monday to Friday
8.00am- 4.00pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 December 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
- Motivate and stimulate a children's learning abilities, encouraging learning through experience
- Following EYFS principles providing fulfilling and enriching learning opportunities for children
- Ensure a high level of care always provided
- Follow nursery policy and procedures to safeguard all children
- Contribute as a team when planning activities together both indoors and outdoors
- Provide pastoral care and support to children and give them a secure learning environment
- Assist with the development of a child's personal, social, language and physical abilities
- Encourage development through stories, songs, games, drawing and imaginative play
- Help children develop curiosity and knowledge
- Share knowledge gained with other practitioners and build and maintain relationships with parents
- Observe, assess and record each child's progress
- Ensure the health and safety of children and staff is maintained during all activities, both inside and outside the nursery or school
- Keep up to date with changes in the curriculum and developments in best practice
- Personal care elements e.g., taking pupil to toilet / nappy changes
- Adhere to updates with Early Year Legislation
Where you'll work
Rothbury Gardens
Gateshead
NE11 0AT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GATESHEAD COUNCIL
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
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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
Our children are the future generation; it is a privilege to shape the future lives of our learners and instil in them the determination, resilience, self-belief and life skills needed to enable them to become happy, healthy, life-long learners. At Lobley Hill our CARE values underpin this. Co-operation; Achievement; Respect and Enjoyment are embedded through all elements of school life. Our curriculum offer is centered around our extensive, ever-developing grounds; through broad and rich experiences we aim for children to be the best they can be by being curious, adventurous and respectful to achieve personal excellence. I encourage you to explore our website and Facebook page to see the opportunities we offer our learners. Alongside our dedicated skilled staff team and supportive governors, we strive to ensure we develop strong relationships with our families and place the school at the heart of the community. As your child starts on their educational journey, we look forward to working with you and welcoming you into the Lobley Hill family.
After this apprenticeship
- Progression for the right candidate
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GATESHEAD COUNCIL
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000347580.
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Closes in 15 days (Monday 10 November 2025)
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