EYFS Practitioner Apprentice (Nursery Learning Support Assistant)
Hertfordshire County Council
Rickmansworth (WD3 3BN)
Closes tomorrow (Sunday 14 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 5 December 2025
Contents
Summary
We are seeking a Level 3 Early Years Educator apprentice to work in our school nursery. If you are enthusiastic about working with children and know how to inspire and support them at just the right moments, we would love to hear from you.
- Wage
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£8,637.20 to £13,968.24, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday, 8.45am - 1.15pm.
Tuesday, 8.45am - 1.15pm.
Wednesday, 8.45am - 12.15pm.
Thursday, 8.45am - 12.45pm.
Friday, 8.45am - 12.15pm, 1.00pm - 3.30pm.
22 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 6 January 2026
- 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
- To attend to children’s personal needs, including social, health, hygiene, first aid and welfare matters
- To support children's learning
- To work with children under the direction of the class teacher
- To give additional support to individual children with learning needs when required
- To supervise, and provide individual support for, pupils with identified individual needs, which may include SEND children
- To provide clerical/admin support for the teacher, e.g. photocopying, filing, record keeping
Where you'll work
Harvey Road
Croxley Green
Rickmansworth
WD3 3BN
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
EDUCATION AND SKILLS TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT 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
Attend online sessions and meet with a tutor every 4-6 weeks.
Requirements
Desirable 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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
At Harvey Road, we pride ourselves in collectively striving for excellence and enjoyment in all areas of school life. We have a strong tradition of celebrating personal, team and whole-school achievement while maintaining a broad and balanced curriculum that caters for everyone in our community. Harvey Road is a community co-education school and admits children aged between 4 and 11 years old. At Harvey Road we also have a Nursery. We encourage all of our pupils to achieve to the best of their ability, expand their horizons, be thoughtful and considerate towards others and to value and understand our wider environment. Harvey Road works hard to nurture independence in our pupils and to prepare them for their varied roles in society.
After this apprenticeship
At the end of your apprenticeship, there may be the opportunity to take on additional hours covering the class during teacher absence.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
EDUCATION AND SKILLS TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001365.
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Closes tomorrow (Sunday 14 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
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