Early Years Educator Apprentice
EARLY YEARS INVESTMENTS LIMITED
Coombe Dingle (BS9 2PR)
Closes in 9 days (Friday 19 December 2025)
Posted on 9 December 2025
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Summary
Come and join this beautiful setting in Coombe Dingle as an early years apprentice, to work as a key member of the early year’s team delivering high quality, safe care and learning opportunities for all children based on their needs and interests. This Ofsted Outstanding nursery offers an amazing environment for you to develop.
- Wage
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£16,640 a year
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday -Friday, 40 hours over 4.5 days, shifts TBC.
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
Red Bus Nursery really value and take care of the staff team and work so well together, supporting each other and helping where they can. They are very focused on quality but are also very relaxed and love to have fun.
The Role
• To meet the obligations of a key person to children, evidencing child development progress and to effectively communicate this to parents or carers. Build close relationships with the parents and carers of key children.
• To assist in the deliver the EYFS and provide evidence you are meeting your commitment to it and Ofsted and follow accurately Red Bus policies and procedures.
• To commit to the safeguarding and protection of children and an ongoing culture of vigilance, clearly understanding appropriate action to take in the event of a potential safeguarding or child protection issue.
• To go about your work in a happy and positive way ensuring every child receives a positive and warm reception that makes each child feel special.
• To support other team members and the nursery as a whole as required, communicating effectively and highlighting anything that could be improved for children or the team.
What we offer you as an Early Years Apprentice;
· competitive salary - £8ph on appointment increasing to £9ph after 12 week competency check
· a management team who listen and support and who importantly value the work our staff do in these important roles
· amazing environment for you and the children ! Fully resourced, continually changing, very much fun!
· significant learning and development opportunities for you to train and achieve your goals;
· a growing company with many career opportunities
· up to 25 days holiday + 3 days paid time off over Christmas plus 8 bank holidays = up to 36 days off per year ! (pro-rata for part time hours)
· lovely uniform based on what the staff like, multiple options for indoors and outdoors and plenty of it
· easy parking
· company & staff events
· pension
· discounted childcare
· Employee Assistance Programme and access to a virtual GP
Where you'll work
Westbury Lane
Coombe Dingle
BS9 2PR
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
- Friendly
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Team working
Other requirements
Enhanced DBS required
About this employer
Located on the edge of Blaise Castle Estate, Coombe Dingle was our first setting in Bristol - providing high quality care and amazing resources for ages 3 months to 5 years. Coombe Dingle have been graded as ‘Outstanding’ during inspections from OFSTED. Based in North Bristol, serving the areas of Sea Mills, Shirehampton, Lawrence Weston, Westbury-on-Trym, Stoke Bishop and more. The Portway and M5 are also only a few moment's drive away!
After this apprenticeship
Promotion to a Room Lead/ Assistant Room Manager/ Room Manager
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000002572.
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