Playworker Apprentice

Summary

Are you passionate about working with children and looking for an exciting opportunity to kickstart your career in playwork? Premier Education is offering an Apprentice Playworker position, perfect for individuals eager to gain hands-on experience while earning a qualification in childcare.

Annual wage: £9,984 a year
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Training course: Playworker (level 2)
Hours: Monday-Friday, shifts to be announced.
30 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 7 October
Duration: 1 Year 2 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

To be well established with and confident in understanding the club's policies and procedures and be able to explain how these policies are suitably aligned to your daily practice.
To set up learning spaces including moving equipment and furniture and understanding the impact of enabling environments.
To monitor and maintain a healthy, safe and secure working environment by completing risk assessments to mitigate risk across the venue.
To plan, prepare and deliver the highest quality play opportunities within a safe and caring environment.
Before the arrival of children, to ensure that the environment is inclusive for all, recognises and encourages diversity, and ensuring that all SEN needs are catered for.
To seek the views of children and involve them in the planning of activities, deeply respecting their values and contributions to their preferred learning styles.
To enable child-centred play in a structured and relaxed environment maintaining overall quality of care, supporting children to engage in a range of play opportunities allowing for safe risks and challenges.
In line with the food and hygiene standards, support the preparation of making nutritious snacks and refreshments whilst promoting independence, encouragement and self-choice to children, including those in Early Years.
To recognise the importance of safeguarding, how it can differentiate, applying procedures in practice, and take any action required to ensure the safety and welfare of children.
To be proactive in ensuring that you are clear on your responsibilities in relation to safeguarding and child protection and you know how to report any low or high-level concerns immediately to the Venue Lead.
To provide comprehensive care for children of all ages, including collecting them from their classes, overseeing and delivering them safely to their parents/carers.
To understand your responsibilities set out in meeting the differentiating needs of the EYFS children and what your additional roles are to ensure their care is met and allied to the framework for the early years foundation stage.
To understand your duties for supporting all levels of intimate care situations and ensuring that respectful, consent of care is maintained and safer working practices are in place at all times.
To support the maintaining and logging of confidential records as required, e.g. accident/ incident forms, medication and safeguarding disclosures.
Additional skillsets required:
To show enthusiasm and interest for engaging with the children, role modelling and facilitating their play alongside them.
To ensure you are enthusiastic and can hold conversation to detail, in maintaining good relationships with school, children and parents.
To develop and maintain positive attitude with children, families, where you are setting an exam.

Where you’ll work

Queens Avenue

Dorchester

DT1 2ET

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

THE EDUCATIONWISE ACADEMY LTD

Your training course

Playworker (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Observe and reflect on play behaviours.

Communicate sensitively using relevant language and behaviour.

Promote diversity and inclusion in Playwork practice.

Identify ways to remove barriers which can prevent some children and young people playing.

Undertake reflective observations to improve own practice and the quality of the provision for children and young people.

Contribute to play audits.

Promote the value and benefits of play for all children and young people.

Assist with planning, creating and identifying loose parts to encourage and inspire sustainable practices, including recycling, reusing, reducing and repairing.

Recognise the benefits of risk taking in play and contribute to dynamic risk-benefit assessment.

Recognise that children and young people communicate with a range of different types of behaviour and may need Playworker support.

Support children and young people to understand and manage their emotions, feelings and actions.

Manage interactions with parents/caregivers professionally.

Recognise the importance of respecting professional boundaries when lone working or conducting intimate care with children and young people and using social media with children, young people and families.

Contribute to health and safety checks.

Follow emergency incidents or common illness/infections policies and procedures, administering first aid and completing records when required.

Use active listening and communication techniques when interacting with children and young people playing, identifying any potential concerns if they occur.

Contribute to recording and reporting procedures as required by the play setting.

Contribute to administrative and financial record keeping.

Promote healthy eating and an active lifestyle, ensuring specific dietary and cultural needs are met.

Maintain a clean environment according to local and national policies and procedures.

Contribute to ensuring security arrangements are followed, such as children’s arrival and departures from the setting.

Work as part of a team to support and supervise children and young people on off-site trips, complying with formal risk assessment of venues visited.

Apply Playwork approaches in own role, incorporating new and emerging themes.

Reflect on own practice to create a personal development plan with supervisor.

Recognise the boundaries of own self and other Playworkers’ interaction with children, and when it is necessary to report incidents to the appropriate safeguarding lead and Local Authority Designated Officer – LADO if appropriate when a Playworkers’ behaviour towards a child may pose a risk of harm.

Apply the play work approach depending on the individual need.

Your training plan

The training for the programme will include online learning, webinars, practical sessions and visits in the workplace.
On completion you will achieve a level 2 Playworker qualification and Functional Skills in maths and English, as required.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

Maths (grade 4)
English (grade 4)

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

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

About this company

PAMFA Sports are part of Premier Education Group and have been providing schools, children and parents with innovative programmes and initiatives for over fourteen years. Established in 1999, we provide a wide range of services to schools and communities throughout the UK. The group, consisting of Premier Sport, Premier Performing Arts and The Golden Mile, collectively employs over 800 qualified professionals and last year our activities received over 5 million visits.

After this apprenticeship

Undertake further qualifications and progression in role for the ridht candidate
Level, 2 and 3 available depending on existing skills and qaulifications. Around 18 months to complete

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