Early Years Educator Apprenticeship
EXPLORERS NURSERY OF WELLS LTD
WELLS (BA5 3LQ)
Closes in 13 days (Monday 8 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 24 November 2025
Contents
Summary
We are offering an opportunity for an enthusiastic apprentice to work as part of an experienced team. We strive to offer children a bright, stimulating environment which focuses on their well-being and happiness and are looking forward to sharing our knowledge with the right candidate.
- Wage
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£11,778 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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Shifts will be Monday to Friday between 8.00am to 5.30pm to meet the needs of the business.
The contract will be for 30 hours but may increase.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 12 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
- Provide high-quality care at all times
- Listening to, encouraging, enabling, stimulating and ensuring the safekeeping of the children
- Feeding and changing the children, as needed
- Planning and preparing for day to day activities
- Building strong and trusting relationships with parents and children
- Observing children
- Providing weekly activities for each child’s next steps
- Supporting children with the daily routine and supporting them with health care
- Handing over to parents at the end of their children’s day
- Cleaning duties such as tidying up play/food area after children
Where you'll work
56 BATH ROAD
WELLS
BA5 3LQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY CENTRE SOMERSET COLLEGE GROUP
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 take place once a week at Strode College
- Strode College will be managing the applications for this vacancy
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Flexibility
- Positive approach to learning
- Enthusiasm
Other requirements
You will be required to pass a DBS check. You will be required to have either maths or English at a GCSE 4/C or equivalent. If applicants do not have the required grades we will consider a level 2 for the right candidate.
About this employer
Nursery setting with children aged 0-4 years. We are a mother and daughter team who (combined) have worked in childcare for over 30 years. The nursery is open 50 weeks of the year; Monday to Friday 7.30am to 5.30pm. Children’s well-being, enjoyment and happiness is important and our number one priority. Every child in our care will feel secure, valued and listened to and will be encouraged to develop confidence and independence and to learn, as individuals, from each other or in small groups. The children are divided into three age groups; Crawlers and Climbers (0-2), Adventurers (2-3) and Pioneers (3-4). We have an open-plan, free flow setting. We continue to invest in our Nursery ensuring children will enjoy bright, well-resourced, stimulating and comfortable rooms.
After this apprenticeship
- A permanent role may be offered to the successful candidate upon completion of their apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY CENTRE SOMERSET COLLEGE GROUP
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000002139.
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Closes in 13 days (Monday 8 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
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