Early Years Educator Apprenticeship

CC Nurseries Group

Barnet, EN5 4QS

Closes in 17 days (Friday 11 October at 11:59pm)

Posted on 19 September 2024

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Summary

As Early Childhood Developer Apprentice you will support children between the ages of 0-5 in their development and care.  Work to provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children that are appropriate to their age and stage of development, whilst also enhancing daily needs of children.

Annual wage
£12,646.40 a year

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Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday, shifts to be discussed on interview.

38 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 14 October

Duration

1 Year 6 Months

Positions available

2

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

  • Learn whilst working
  • Work to provide stimulating and purposeful experiences, environments and resources to children that are appropriate
    to their age and stage of development
  • Enhance the all-around daily needs of children, including their physical, intellectual, social and emotional development
  • Assist with embedding an effective key person approach to enable children to form secure attachments.
  • Ensure the safety and wellbeing of every child, staff, parent and visitor always
  • Work within a team to support all children and team members within your room
  • Understand and ensure that the requirements of the statutory framework for the Early Years Curriculum are met

Where you’ll work

Church Passage, Wood Street

Barnet

EN5 4QS

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

LET ME PLAY LIMITED

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

    Work towards your Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification. (All learning is delivered online/ remote). 

    Functional skills if required.

     

    More training information

    Training Provider: LMP Education (rated 1st best UK training provider)!

    Requirements

    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

    • Attention to detail
    • Logical
    • Initiative

    About this company

    CC Nurseries Group key values of Respectful Relationships, Responsive Teaching and Learning, Inspiring Environments and Equality and Equity are threaded throughout everything that we do and ensure that we are delivering on our mission statement that Childhood Matters.  We take inspiration from the Te Wariki curriculum of New Zealand and deliver our curriculum through our four key values.

    After this apprenticeship

    Full-time role to be considered upon completion of the apprenticeship.

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    LET ME PLAY LIMITED

    Owen MacKinnon

    owen.mackinnon@lmpeducation.org

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000277047.

    Apply now

    Closes in 17 days (Friday 11 October at 11:59pm)

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