Early Years Apprenticeship
EARLY BUDS NURSERY LTD
London (E17 8QR)
Closes in 16 days (Friday 5 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 19 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Provide a nurturing and stimulating environment where children can learn and grow. An Early Years Educator apprentice will play a crucial role in supporting children's development and creating a positive and engaging atmosphere for them to flourish.
- Wage
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£19,047 a year
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It can be increased in the second year.
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm, shifts, may work evenings and weekends.
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 18 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
- Deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage framework, and the
- Development Matters curriculum under the supervision and guidance of the Nursery Manager
- Support physical, personal, social, and emotional development of all children attending the nursery,including those with special educational needs.
- Provide a safe, stimulating environment which considers the families’ ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds
- Observe, record, and assess children’s progress with reference to the Early Years Foundation Stage framework
- Communicate effectively with parents regarding their children’s development at the nursery and collaborate with them to support children’s development at home
- Be a key worker for a designated number of children, evaluate their developmental needs and follow up with next steps in collaboration with other colleagues including the nursery SENcO and where appropriate, external professionals
- Support children’s growth, independence, and resilience, through a balanced mixture of adult initiated and child lead activities and experiences
Promote the development of children’s language through high-quality open-ended interaction:
- Create opportunities for children to express themselves in large and small groups
- Encourage the love of reading in children, by building up an age-appropriate collection of books, and reading stories with children on a daily basis
- Build a suitable collection of rhymes, stories and songs which makes learning fun and interactive
- Value children’s mother tongue if not English, and support the learning of English as an additional language
Assist colleagues and the Nursery Manager towards the smooth running of the nursery by:
- Using an electronic register to accurately record children’s attendance
- Sharing information with parents about their child’s day at the nursery through face-to-face interactions, as well as the use of the nursery’s chosen communication software (Famly 2023)
- Completing assigned health and safety risk assessments
- Maintaining high professional standards and levels of care and hygiene, for both children and resources
- Read, understand, and adhere to all of the nursery’s policies and procedures, in particular the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy
- Attend and participate in relevant training, share the knowledge and ideas gained with colleagues
- Collaborate with the Nursery Manager, to agree and work towards a set of professional development targets
Where you'll work
97 Queens Road
London
E17 8QR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
WALTHAM FOREST COLLEGE
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
Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard:
- Waltham Forest College - 707 Forest Road, Walthamstow, London, E17 4JB
- On-site in college
- 1 day a week
More training information
Waltham Forest College is an aspirational place to learn with highly skilled, supportive staff, industry-standard specialist facilities and works in partnership with employers.
We are proud to be an inclusive college, supporting and encouraging our students to ‘Think BIG’ in achieving their career goals. You will be joining one of the top performing Further Education Colleges in the country (top 5%). Rated as Outstanding by Ofsted, Waltham Forest College also has specialist Mayor of London’s Quality Academy status for HealthCare, Construction, Green Technologies and Hospitality, Creative and Digital and is a WorldSkills UK’s Training Centre of Excellence. This provides an exciting opportunity for our students to further develop world-class skills, embedding excellence and developing the higher-level technical skills that employers need.
Our extensive enrichment programme provides an opportunity for you to make new friends, try new skills and activities and, volunteer and have fun, all in a safe and supporting environment. Whether you are looking to develop new skills and confidence, progress to university, retrain or to study to progress to highly skilled, higher-paid employment, we can help springboard your career.
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
About this employer
Our newest and largest nursery is nestled within Edinburgh Primary School, offering a thoughtfully designed space where children can thrive. This purpose-built setting features a fantastic outdoor learning area, perfect for exploring and discovering the world around them. Inside, you’ll find warm, inviting learning spaces carefully crafted with natural materials, creating an environment that feels both cosy and inspiring. Every corner has been designed to spark curiosity, foster creativity, and support meaningful learning experiences.
After this apprenticeship
- Nursery Assistant & Nursery Practitioner
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WALTHAM FOREST COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001498.
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Closes in 16 days (Friday 5 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
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