Early Years Educator Apprenticeship

Summary

If you're passionate about childcare and want a career that positively impacts children's lives, consider Headstart Day Nursery & Pre-School in Bourne. Your role involves providing support in a secure, nurturing environment and collaborating with the team to meet children's individual care plans, needs, and routines.

Annual wage: £9,984 a year
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Training course: Early years educator (level 3)
Hours: The nursery is open from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm, Monday to Friday for 51 weeks of the year. Your hours of work will be set within these times.
30 hours a week
Possible start date: Thursday 3 October
Duration: 1 Year 6 Months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Provide and support stimulating activities to enhance children’s development
Interact positively with children, parents, visitors and other staff members
Make a positive contribution towards new ideas for activities and displays
Carry out domestic duties to ensure the smooth running of the setting
Meeting and greeting of children and parents

Where you’ll work

10 Great Northern Gardens

Bourne

PE10 9EH

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

RIVERSIDE TRAINING (SPALDING) LTD

Your training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Equal to A level

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.

Your training plan

Training will be provided by Riverside Training (Spalding) Ltd. Training is work based meaning you spend the majority of time within the workplace but will be released into the centre periodically if needed
During this apprenticeship, you will work towards learning the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours of the Early Years Educator Standard and your first aid certificate

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade 4/C)
Mathematics (grade 4/C)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

These childcare facilities are part of Lincolnshire Childcare Group which was founded in 1989 by Diane Smith B.Ed.(Hons), MA and the late Susan Jenkins B.A.(Hons), PGCE, both qualified teachers with a wealth of experience in child development and a commitment to providing high quality childcare. They believe that to provide a caring and stimulating environment staff need to be well trained and qualified, and this ethos is reflected in all of our provisions. Our practitioners are highly motivated and passionate about childcare.

https://www.headstartnurseries.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

The opportunity for ongoing permanent employment upon successful completion of the Apprenticeship

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

RIVERSIDE TRAINING (SPALDING) LTD

Suzie Bulbeck

suzie@rts.training

01775 710945

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000274794.

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Closes in 7 days (Monday 30 September at 11:59pm)

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