Nursery Practitioner Apprentice Level 3
GWENDOLEN HOUSE NURSERY SCHOOL LTD
ENGLAND (SW15 6EP)
Closes in 18 days (Saturday 22 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 3 November 2025
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Summary
Are you someone people naturally warm to? Passionate about shaping young minds and creating joyful learning experiences? We have an exciting opportunity to join a nursery as an Early Years Educator Apprentice. Earn while you learn, gain hands-on experience, and work towards your Level 3 qualification in a supportive environment.
- Wage
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£15,704 to £25,396.80, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday
Open from 7:30 am - 7pm
Shift patterns 7 am- 3pm or 11 am- 7pm
Or you can work doubles if wanted
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 23 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 4 months
- Positions available
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4
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
- Provide high-quality physical, emotional, social, and intellectual care for children
- Support colleagues in maintaining a safe, nurturing, and positive environment
- Implement the daily nursery routine and planned activities
- Communicate effectively with parents and carers
- Work collaboratively as part of a dedicated childcare team
Where you'll work
39 GWENDOLEN AVENUE
LONDON
GREATER LONDON
ENGLAND
SW15 6EP
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
Training will be done through Teams with other learners and a tutor from Apprenticeship Connect.
You will get 6 hours a week to complete your apprenticeship which will be paid
More training information
Eligibility requirements for an Apprentice:
- To not already hold an administration qualification at level 3 or above
- To meet course suitability and initial assessment requirements in English and maths
- To have the right to work in the UK and meet apprenticeship funding eligibility criteria
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
- Attention to detail
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- caring
- Kind
Other requirements
• Natural love for working with children • Good interpersonal and communication skills • Positive attitude and team-player mindset • Reliable, enthusiastic, and eager to learn • Previous childcare experience is preferable but not essential
About this employer
This nursery, based in the heart of Putney, London, provides a warm, inclusive, and stimulating environment for children to grow, learn, and thrive. The nursery is dedicated to offering the highest standard of childcare through creativity, play, and education. With a close-knit and passionate team, this nursery is the perfect place to start your career in early years education.
https://gwendolenhouse.com (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
An opportunity to be offered a full time role after competition of Apprenticeship
After this apprenticeship
Full time position offered if performed well.
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 VAC1000347846.
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Closes in 18 days (Saturday 22 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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