Apprentice Early Years Educator

Summary

Puddleducks Preschool offers high quality early years education and care to children aged 2-school age in Mulbarton, South Norfolk. Puddleducks has been part of the community for over 30 years and offers extended day and sessional care to children from Mulbarton and surrounding villages.

Annual wage: £9,984 a year
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Training course: Early years educator (level 3)
Hours: Shift pattern to be agreed with candidate based on study day and staff rota allocation ensuring ratios are maintained.
30 hours a week
Possible start date: Saturday 4 January
Duration: 2 years
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

Provide good quality care and education for the children through working as a team to plan a curriculum that offers a variety of resources, equipment and activities that support children’s intellectual, physical, social and emotional development.
Work as a team to offer all children the attention, support and stimulus ensuring there is opportunities for continuity and progression in their play.
Work as a staff team to ensure that activities positively reflect religious and cultural diversity of the community
Listening, encouraging, stimulating, enabling and ensuring the safekeeping of all children in our care
Implement and operate the policies and procedures that are adopted by Puddleducks Playgroup, including the Aims and Objectives.
Abide by the staff code of conduct at all times.
Keep completely confidential any information regarding children, their families, staff or committee members that is learnt through your job.
Ensure a safe environment for children and adults in the setting, this will include: Ensuring the equipment is well maintained and safe for purpose, adhering to good hygiene standards at all time, enforce and review safety procedures for fire drills, arrival and departure of children and general safety throughout the sessions.
To keep accurate records including: notes of observations and assessments of children in your key person group, accident book for both children and staff and daily risk assessments.
Comply with all Children’s Act and OFSTED requirements.
Attend staff meetings and training when required.
Perform other tasks that may be reasonably requested.

Where you’ll work

JUBILEE ROOM

VILLAGE HALL

MULBARTON

NORWICH

NR14 8AE

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

CITY COLLEGE NORWICH

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

For the full apprenticeship, candidates will complete:

Level 3 Early Years Educator Qualification
Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid (RQF) or Emergency Paediatric First Aid (mandatory requirement for the overall qualification)

For the End Point Assessment (EPA) apprentices will undertake an observation with questioning, and a professional discussion underpinned by the portfolio

Apprentices must attend college sessions once per fortnight at the Ipswich Road campus, located near Norwich city centre.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (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
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Interpersonal skills
Good at building relationships
Friendly and reliable
Committed to children's needs

Other requirements

The course will last for 18 months, plus there will be an additional 6 months for the End Point Assessment period. The total length of this apprenticeship programme is 24 months There are regular buses to Mulbarton from Norwich for any candidate who will need to commute to the setting.

About this company

Puddleducks Preschool offers high quality early years education and care to children aged 2-school age in Mulbarton, South Norfolk. Puddleducks has been part of the community for over 30 years and offers extended day and sessional care to children from Mulbarton and surrounding villages. Puddleducks is set up as a non-profit making entity, therefore meaning that we use any profit to purchase new equipment, extracurricular activities and experiences for the children. Puddleducks staff are highly qualified and experienced, using their knowledge and experience as parents themselves to support the families and children in their care. Puddleducks Preschool offers high quality early years education and care to children aged 2-school age in Mulbarton, South Norfolk. Puddleducks has been part of the community for over 30 years and offers extended day and sessional care to children from Mulbarton and surrounding villages. Puddleducks is set up as a non-profit making entity, therefore meaning that we use any profit to purchase new equipment, extracurricular activities and experiences for the children. Puddleducks staff are highly qualified and experienced, using their knowledge and experience as parents themselves to support the families and children in their care. We aim to offer the best care to all children attending Puddleducks, working with each individual child and their family to ensure they are given the support, understanding each child’s interests, likes and dislikes, supporting their continuing development through play, nurturing them in the safe, secure environment. Staff support children in their play, modelling language, scaffolding their learning by encouraging them to ask questions, take risks and learn through a trial-and-error approach. Puddleducks has a large indoor environment that offers many different play and learning opportunities. It also boosts a very large outdoor environment that offers a mud kitchen and digging area where all children are encouraged to explore getting wet and muddy. There is a large space for bikes and scooters. We are also very lucky to have an allotment garden where the children are supported by the adults to help with growing, caring for and harvesting the fruit and vegetables they have grown.

After this apprenticeship

A position may be available for the right candidate following successful completion of the apprenticeship. The business is looking for somebody who wants to develop and gain a position following their apprenticeship.

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