Early Years Apprentice

Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for Level 3 to join our team at our Nursery. The role includes Apprenticeship training where you can earn whilst you learn and gain an industry-recognised qualification.

Annual wage: £12,313.60 a year
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Training course: Early years educator (level 3)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.
37 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

As part of you role, you will be involved in:

Observing children
Planning activities
Responsible for their health and well-being and attending to their every need
Provide outstanding standard of care and learning
Support their personal, social and emotional development
Ensure children have exciting learning opportunities and challenging interactions
Communicate effectively with parents
Keep records detailing planning and evidence of progress
Safeguard and look after welfare of children, you will have key children
Be a good team member
Provide high quality care and play opportunities
Working to the EYFS
Ensuring that the children’s needs are met
Cleaning duties

Where you’ll work

286 PERSHORE ROAD SOUTH

BIRMINGHAM

B30 3EU

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

HALESOWEN COLLEGE

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

The succesful apprentice will be allocated with an assessor who will visit them within the workplace one every 6-8 weeks.
In addition, you would be required to attend face-to-face lessons in college 2 days per month.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

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

Communication skills
Organisation skills
Number skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Patience

Other requirements

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received before the closing date

About this company

We are family run, with a substantial number of staff now welcoming the children of previous children to our nursery. Long established team members give the nursery continuity, maturity and experience, and support our younger members of staff and apprentices. We are one big family that likes to see everyone grow, children and staff alike.

After this apprenticeship

There is the potential for a permanent position on succefsul completio of this apprenticeship

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HALESOWEN COLLEGE

Tess Woodall

twoodall@halesowen.ac.uk

0121 602 7777

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000278262.

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Closes in 9 days (Friday 4 October at 11:59pm)

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