Early Years Educator Apprenticeship - Little Learners Nursery and Preschool
Little Learners Nursery & Pre-School
Hornchurch (RM12 4PT)
Closes in 17 days (Monday 24 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 7 November 2025
Contents
Summary
To be trained to achieve the position of a Nursery Practitioner and to assist the Room Leader in all areas of daily tasks. To contribute to a high quality caring environment for children. This includes creating a warm, friendly and stimulating atmosphere in which the children can develop emotionally, socially and academically.
- Wage
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£15,704 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
Worked in shifts, 7:30am– 6pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 December 2025
- Duration
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1 year 7 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
- Receive in-house training with online course work and regular supervisions from a nominated training provider, attending college where applicable. Apprenticeships are for one year and all work, including Level 2 Functional Skills in English, Maths and ICT (unless the candidate holds GCSE in these subjects grade C or above) are expected to be completed within this time frame
- Attend team meetings and all out of hour’s activities
- Support all staff and engage in the team
- Under supervision provide all aspects of care for children including washing, changing and feeding
- Assist with meeting the personal and emotional needs of individual children
- Ensure the provision of a high quality environment to meet the needs of individual children from differing cultures and religious backgrounds and stages of development
- Keep rooms clean and tidy and ensure children’s folders are kept up to date
- Provide adult interaction with children in the nursery and offer stimulating and varied activities
- Be aware of the Nursery’s policies and procedures drawing particular attention to confidentiality and safeguarding
- Contribute to good standards of hygiene and cleanliness in the nursery
- Undertake such other duties and responsibilities of an equivalent nature as may be determined by the trainee’s supervisor from time to time
- Understand that as part of the training you may be required to move to other parts of the nursery
Where you'll work
15 St. Nicholas Avenue
Hornchurch
RM12 4PT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LET ME PLAY 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
- You will work towards your Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification across a total duration of 18 months!
- Training provider: LMP Group: https://lmp-group.co.uk/
- All online/remote learning, no classroom or college day release
- An allocated tutor will support you throughout the apprenticeship!
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Desirable qualifications
BTEC in:
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
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
Experience - Essential: •One year’s recent experience of working in a care/ education early years setting •Experience of planning, short, medium and long-term plans in an early year’s setting to meet the needs of both individual children and those in a group setting •Experience of providing a nursery curriculum for 0-3 and / or 3-5 year olds under the EYFS •Knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and the Care Standards 2000 •Knowledge / experience of meeting the needs of children and families •Experience of maintaining contemporaneous accurate records
About this employer
Little Learners leads the way by learning through play. Our culture springs from our core values of excellence, integrity, ownership, compassion and team. This picture illustrates our goal: We use fun and play, while working to the Early Years framework, to give every child the foundation they need for school: enjoyment of learning, creativity and ability to make and be a good friend and positive influence on others. We know how important teamwork is, and so we place a great emphasis on good two-way communication between Nursery and home. In addition to a friendly face at the Nursery door every day, we use ParentZone. This is an app that records all the learning and fun of your children’s early years education. All securely password protected and accessed via your smartphone! We employ highly qualified staff who provide a stimulating environment that supports and encourages your child’s learning and development, socially, academically and physically
https://www.littlelearners-nurseries.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
After this apprenticeship
- Possible full-time position upon completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LET ME PLAY LIMITED
Danielle Stokell
danielle.stokell@lmpeducation.org
020 3836 4441
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000350069.
Apply now
Closes in 17 days (Monday 24 November 2025 at 11:59pm)
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