Level 5 Early Years Lead Practitioner Apprenticeship

- Providing care: Ensuring children are safe and well, and responding to their needs 

- Supporting learning: Facilitating play and learning opportunities, and developing children's speech, language, and communication 

- Leading practice: Participating in and leading daily routines, and promoting best practices for observation, assessment, and planning 

- Promoting diversity and equality: Ensuring all children are included and supported 

- Complying with safeguarding: Ensuring the setting complies with all safeguarding legislation, policies, and strategies 

- Reflecting and building on practice: Using professional enquiry and action research to contribute to the setting's pedagogical approach 

- Leading other practitioners: Supporting others in developing their own practice

- Early Years Educator Level 3
- Training will include paediatric first aid qualification
- The programme offers a blended approach including virtual classrooms, webinars, work-based tasks and online assignments
- Candidates are not required to attend college
- You will  receive one-to-one support and tuition from your apprenticeship tutor, this tutor will make in person visits to you at the nursery, or schedule online meetings every 5-6 weeks

The Early Years Lead Practitioner Level 5 is the equivalent to a foundation degree. You could progress to a top-up degree and Early Years Teacher Status.

Safeguarding Statement

This authority/organisation is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, requiring all staff and volunteers to uphold this commitment.

As part of the safer recruitment, you will require an enhanced DBS. This will be applied for by the employer if successful. 

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Right to Work & Residency Requirements

Applicants who are not UK nationals must meet apprenticeship funding eligibility rules, including having lived in the UK or EU for at least 3 consecutive years prior to the start date.

You must hold a valid visa that does not expire within 18 months of your apprenticeship start date. We will require a share code to verify your right to work and study in the UK.

After submitting your application, you will receive a screening form where you can securely provide your share code for eligibility checks.

We bring decades of experience25 years in early years, multiple languages, one shared purpose.
Some of our team have spent 25 years or more working in early years, and several hold Level 7 qualifications. Our director brings the added perspective of a career in nursing and midwifery. We are a genuinely multicultural team, and most of us speak three or four languages, which matters in a setting where most of our children are growing up bilingual or multilingual. Whatever your family's background or first language, your child will find someone here who reflects their world.