Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship
| Posting date: | 27 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £7.55 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 September 2025 |
| Location: | London, BR3 4XN |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Swift ACI |
| Job type: | Apprenticeship |
| Job reference: | Little Sunflowers Child Care Ltd |
Summary
Little Sunflowers Child Care
Little Sunflowers provide a safe, happy, stable, caring and stimulating environment, in order to enable every child to reach their full potential from Nursery right through to their Breakfast and Afterschool Club!
Little Sunflowers Child Care is the dream of Jacqui Clark, who, all those years ago....35 to be precise, struggled to find a nursery in the local area that provided a nuturing environment for her son to develop, learn and grow. Determined to provide that care for her son and other children in the area, Little Sunflowers was born!
To this day, we are still family run and family owned, with both Jacqui and her Daughter working on site full time.
This is the wish that became a dream that is now a reality! That has become a second home to everyone that has walked through our do
https://www.little-sunflowers-child-care.co.uk/
The main responsibilities of this job role will include:
* Working towards Level 3 Childcare Apprenticeship.
* Supporting the development of the childcare provision.
* Providing an excellent range of activities that ensures that the child learns whilst having fun.
* Being a team player.
* Providing challenging and stimulating activities for all children
* Taking part in First Aid training as required
* Responsibility for equal opportunity in delivery, access and attitude in aspects of service delivery
* Working with teams across the nursery setting
* Supporting children’s learning and development.
* Preparing and maintaining the environment and resources for the children.
* Preparation of food for breakfast, snack and afternoon tea.
* Supporting children’s self-help needs.
* Being creative and enthusiastic.
* Following Safeguarding rules and regulations to also meet the Standard of the Childcare Apprenticeship.
Level 3 Early Years Educator:
Your Apprenticeship will last for 14 months. You will be supported by Lead Support Coaches throughout your Apprenticeship, as well as a mentor within the nursery. You will be working full time in the nursery. Your classroom days will be based online as a remote session which you will need to be fully available for, and your main childcare apprenticeship work will be done in a nursery local to you.
You will Maths and English GCSE at Grade 4 or above or equivalent Functional Skills Level 2 and be living in the UK for a minimum of 3 years in order to be eligible.
Expected Career Progression:
Developing into a Level 3 practitioner, with the potential of a full time position upon successful completion. Other prospects could include applying for :
Continuous development in current nursery setting,
* Room Leader positions, management etc
* Springboard into primary education
* Paediatric nursing
and many more.........
Little Sunflowers provide a safe, happy, stable, caring and stimulating environment, in order to enable every child to reach their full potential from Nursery right through to their Breakfast and Afterschool Club!
Little Sunflowers Child Care is the dream of Jacqui Clark, who, all those years ago....35 to be precise, struggled to find a nursery in the local area that provided a nuturing environment for her son to develop, learn and grow. Determined to provide that care for her son and other children in the area, Little Sunflowers was born!
To this day, we are still family run and family owned, with both Jacqui and her Daughter working on site full time.
This is the wish that became a dream that is now a reality! That has become a second home to everyone that has walked through our do
https://www.little-sunflowers-child-care.co.uk/
The main responsibilities of this job role will include:
* Working towards Level 3 Childcare Apprenticeship.
* Supporting the development of the childcare provision.
* Providing an excellent range of activities that ensures that the child learns whilst having fun.
* Being a team player.
* Providing challenging and stimulating activities for all children
* Taking part in First Aid training as required
* Responsibility for equal opportunity in delivery, access and attitude in aspects of service delivery
* Working with teams across the nursery setting
* Supporting children’s learning and development.
* Preparing and maintaining the environment and resources for the children.
* Preparation of food for breakfast, snack and afternoon tea.
* Supporting children’s self-help needs.
* Being creative and enthusiastic.
* Following Safeguarding rules and regulations to also meet the Standard of the Childcare Apprenticeship.
Level 3 Early Years Educator:
Your Apprenticeship will last for 14 months. You will be supported by Lead Support Coaches throughout your Apprenticeship, as well as a mentor within the nursery. You will be working full time in the nursery. Your classroom days will be based online as a remote session which you will need to be fully available for, and your main childcare apprenticeship work will be done in a nursery local to you.
You will Maths and English GCSE at Grade 4 or above or equivalent Functional Skills Level 2 and be living in the UK for a minimum of 3 years in order to be eligible.
Expected Career Progression:
Developing into a Level 3 practitioner, with the potential of a full time position upon successful completion. Other prospects could include applying for :
Continuous development in current nursery setting,
* Room Leader positions, management etc
* Springboard into primary education
* Paediatric nursing
and many more.........