Early Years Apprentice (Level 3)

Summary

We have a unique opportunity for 3 early years apprentices to join our amazing team. The ideal candidates must love working with children, be self-motivated, an excellent communicator, trustworthy, conscientious and have a desire to continually develop their skills.

Annual wage

£23,484 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

We are a real living wage employer; successful candidates will receive this rate throughout their apprenticeship and beyond.

Training course

Early years educator (level 3)

Hours

Monday - Friday, flexible working over four or five days a week with shifts to be confirmed between the hours of 7.30am and 6pm.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 2 December

Duration

1 year 9 months

Positions available

3

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 nurture all children and adults within the setting, incorporating our Imago values caring about our people and being kind to each other. We’re ambitious, ethical, sustainable and, most importantly, we’re accountable.
To work as part of a team to provide an enabling environment in which all individual children are safe, secure and can play, develop and learn.
Contribute to the provision of a high quality-learning environment which reflects the setting’s pedagogy and meets the needs of individual children, including disabilities, family cultures and students.
Plan broad, balanced, stimulating and challenging experiences both indoors and outdoors in all areas of learning for children’s individual needs, interests, and stages of development.
Deliver high quality teaching and learning including planned, child-initiated play, adult led, small group and continuous provision.
To effectively support children’s communication needs including English as an additional language and implement a range of communication strategies including signs, symbols, visual timetables and Makaton.
To form secure attachments and build a positive relationship with parents and other key adults by providing daily feedback, sharing observations, written reports and discussions as needed.
To act as key person for individual children ensuring that every child’s care and learning is tailored to meet their needs.
To keep accurate, systematic, and timely range of observations, assessments, and records of children’s development on a handheld tablet or similar system.
To implement daily welfare requirements, policy and procedures including risk assessments, health and safety checks, accident forms and first aid.
To ensure good standards of safety, hygiene and cleanliness are always maintained.

Where you’ll work

Ashby Road

Loughborough

LE11 3TE

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

LOUGHBOROUGH 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

Apprentices will have a mixture of blended learning in the work place and taught delivery every other Friday at Loughborough College.
Level 2 Functional Skills English and/or Maths (if required).

Requirements

Essential qualifications

Other in:

Childcare or 6 months experience within setting (grade Pass/ Achieved)

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade C / 4 or equivalent)

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
Attention to detail
Customer care skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Patience

Other requirements

Loughborough College reserves the right to withdraw this vacancy before the end date, following consultation with the employer.

About this company

Recently rated outstanding by OFSTED in all aspects, our vision is simple…to build a world class nursery that consistently delivers fabulous learning, play and fun. We bring families and children together. Creating a place where children love to be. Our 100-place nursery is found in the heart of campus providing education and care to the children of university employees, students, and the local community. We are a diverse and vibrant community recognised for our excellence in inclusion, teaching, learning as well as our contribution to Loughborough, Oxford, and Nottingham Trent University academic research projects. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and expect our employees to share this commitment.

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/nursery/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

• 25 days annual leave (inclusive of the period between Christmas and New Year) + bank holidays. • A paid leave day for your birthday. • Discounted nursery fees. • Free access to our on-campus gym and pool facilities at Burleigh Springs.

After this apprenticeship

On completion of the Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship, there will be opportunity for future personal development.

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