Early Years Educator Apprentice
INSPIRED GENERATION LIMITED
Molesey (KT8 0ST)
Closes in 9 days (Friday 19 December 2025)
Posted on 9 December 2025
Contents
Summary
Sapphires Nursery School is looking for a positive, dedicated level 3 early years apprentice to work as part of a team in order to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can engage, learn and develop. You would model the Nursery’s Froebelian, Christian and Circle of Security Ethos and inspire others to do the same.
- 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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40 hours a week - 8.30am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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2
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
Sapphires Nursery School will always be an exciting and rewarding place to bring and share your gifts and talents. Their passion is to recruit top quality educators who can make a difference to the children in their care that they love and serve.
Salary - up to £12.21 dependent on age and experience, to be agreed on completion of interview.
As a level 3 apprentice you would be expected -
● To learn, develop and grow knowledge of all aspects of caring for children within a nursery setting.
● To ensure a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for all children.
● To assist the wider team in providing rich learning opportunities for all children.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
● Develop and maintain good relationships and communications with parents to facilitate day-to-day caring needs.
● Support with domestic jobs within the nursery where required, for example; preparation of snack meals, cleansing of equipment and such other duties.
● To interact with the children at every opportunity.
● Observe and learn the responsibilities involved in taking on key children.
● To ensure that mealtimes are a time of pleasant social sharing by modelling positive behaviours.
● Take opportunities to help introduce the children to new learning experiences wherever possible.
● Ensure high standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are maintained at all times.
● Be familiar with all emergency procedures.
● To ensure all information received within the nursery is kept strictly confidential.
● To keep up to date with tasks and expectations for the qualification and deliverables form the training provider.
Where you'll work
St Mary's Church Hall
St Mary's Road
Molesey
KT8 0ST
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT 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
Your full role and responsibilities will be set out by your employer. They will provide you with all of the on-the-job training you need to up-skill in your role, and your 20% off-the-job learning will be incorporated as part of your working day.
You will be working towards the Level 3 Early Years Educator apprenticeship standard, which includes:
• Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours
• Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid or Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid
• Level 2 Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)
This will be delivered by your dedicated training provider, Realise.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent 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
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patient
- Team working
Other requirements
This role requires a clear DBS and references
About this employer
Inspired by our Christian foundation, we welcome with open arms children and families from all faiths and none into our vibrant and inclusive community, where both nursery teachers and parents are encouraged to work together in close partnership.
After this apprenticeship
Further development and a full time educator role
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000002246.
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