Early Years Educator Apprentice Level 3

Summary

Your job purpose is to work in accordance with the Policies and Procedures for Cotton Tails Nurseries LTD. You must be committed to work to a high standard. Providing a safe and stimulating environment for the care of children.

Annual wage: £13,312 a year
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Training course: Early years educator (level 3)
Hours: Monday - Friday (08:30 - 17:30).
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 4 November
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

You must know/understand setting policy and procedure for safeguarding
You must know how and who to report child protection concerns to e.g. who is the child protection officer
You must be fully aware of who is authorised to collect the chid from the setting, and the procedure to follow if someone unknown arrives
You will be required to complete courses in relation to safeguarding. This is to ensure you have up to date knowledge. It may be necessary to complete training outside of your usual working hours.
You must understand the nursery policy for behaviour management and always adhere to our guidelines. No physical interventions are to be used. You must fully understand the age and stage of development of the children you are working with and use methods that are appropriate to manage incidents of behaviour.
You must fully always implement nursery procedure for the administration of medicines. This includes how medicines are stored, handled, which staff are authorised to give medicines and how we communicate each child’s needs.

Qualification, training, support, skills

Your qualification level will have been assessed at interview, if required you will be requested to complete additional training to ensure your qualification level is full and relevant
You must keep yourself up to date in areas of particular importance to enhance your work with the children
You will be required to support any workplace students in the setting sharing your skills and knowledge with them

Ratios

You must know the ratio of staff to children for all nursery rooms
You must know how to complete registers and headcount books and ensure these are up to date.

Safety and suitability of premises, environment and equipment

It is your responsibility to maintain the safety of the playing areas both indoors and outdoors.
Appropriately risk assess your immediate environment and remove any hazards you identify.
Each room will have individual procedures in place to maintain the cleanliness of the toys and equipment; these must be always followed.

Where you’ll work

407 Hagley Rd West,

Birmingham

B32 2AD

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

You will be required to attend college two day's per month for day release. This will be based at Halesowen College Whittingham Rd, Halesowen B63 3NA.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and 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

Communication skills
Organisation skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

Happy Days Nursery is situated in Quinton, Birmingham and first opened it’s doors in 1991. We provide private day care for children aged between 0-5yrs old. We are open Monday – Friday from 7.30am to 6pm, 52 weeks of the year (excluding Bank Holidays).

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Possibility of a full time role after the completion of the apprenticeship

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HALESOWEN COLLEGE

Tess Woodall

twoodall@halesowen.ac.uk

01216021071

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000281841.

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