Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship at Stoke St. Michael Nursery & Primary School

Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an Apprentice to join our Early Years Team, to provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social, and intellectual care for children, to support the staff and to work as part of a team to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children can play, develop, and learn.

Annual wage

£10,483.20 a year

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This role is term time only and therefore the advertised salary is pro-rata based on the term-time only nature of this role.

Training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Hours

Monday - Friday 8:30 - 3.30 (1/2hr lunch). Term time only. You will attend college on Wednesdays in Shepton Mallet.

31 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 7 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

Your duties will include:

Supporting in the planning, monitoring, and evaluating effective and differentiated curriculum opportunities, including home learning, with support and guidance from the Class Teacher and EYFS Leader.
Supporting the Class Teacher and EYFS Leader in the assessment, recording and reporting on children’s development, progress, and attainment, helping inform the Class Teacher in setting clear targets, which build on children’s interests and prior attainment.
Using professional knowledge and expertise, help support in identifying early developers/able pupils and those with additional educational needs, working with parents and other professionals to give positive and targeted support where needed.
Developing ongoing positive relationships with parents
Working effectively with the Class Teacher, EYFS Leader, other Support Staff, and other adults.
Supporting the teaching team to ensure high standards of behaviour.
Supporting in the planning of opportunities to contribute to pupil’s spiritual, moral, social, emotional, and cultural development.Help to maintain a well-organised, safe, and enabling learning environment.
Helping to maintain a well-organised, safe, and enabling learning environment.
Undertaking in a share of lunch time and playground duties and rota duties for school activities.

Where you’ll work

Stoke St Michael Nursery & Primary school

Moonshill Road

Stoke St Michael

Radstock

BA3 5LG

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

SOMERSET SKILLS & LEARNING CIC

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

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade C / 4 or above)
Maths (grade C / 4 or above)

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

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Number skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check. Please consider how you will travel to the place of work, particularly if you rely on public transport.

About this company

Our fantastic hard working staff team, parents associations and governing body work very closely together across the two school sites to provide the best possible education for ALL of our individual and wonderful children. Both schools are small (but perfectly formed!) and we ensure that they provide a welcoming, happy, engaging and empowering setting for our children to learn and grow together. Children learn best when they are happy, feel safe and are cared for - a must, in our very similar but uniquely wonderful rural schools.

https://www.croscombestokefederation.co.uk/stoke-st-michael/contact.php# (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

This is a fixed-term contract, during which additional training opportunities may be available. At the end of the role, opportunities may be available across the Trust.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SOMERSET SKILLS & LEARNING CIC

SS&L the training provider: Philippa Bancroft

pbancroft@sslcic.co.uk

07917923622

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000276452.

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