Childminder apprentice
Rosie's Childcare
CAMBERLEY (GU15 1QQ)
Closes on Sunday 20 April 2025
Posted on 17 February 2025
Contents
Summary
Childminders care for children in a home setting and run their own businesses – this job will give you exposure to every aspect of being a childminder from educating little minds to being an entrepreneur. Own car not necessary (we do almost all trips into Camberley and local attractions by bus). Lots of great playgrounds within walking distance.
- Wage
- Competitive
- Training course
- Early years educator (level 3)
- Hours
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SURREY TERM TIME ONLY
Academic year 2024 2025
Wed 9am til 1pm
Thurs 9am til 1pm
Academic year 2025 2026
Wed 9am til 6pm
Thurs 9am til 6pm
Academic year 2026 2027
Tues 7am til 2/6pm
Wed 7am til 2/6pm
Thurs 7am til 2/6pm
30 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 21 April
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
- Supporting or leading educational games
- Conducting activities such as crafts, music and cooking
- Preparing the learning environment with resources and displays
- Helping with trips and outings including school runs
- Feeding and changing babies
- Observing and assessing children to help their learning
- Invoicing parents, financial accounts (training will be provided)
Where you’ll work
59 YOCKLEY CLOSE
CAMBERLEY
GU15 1QQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
FARNBOROUGH COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY
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.
- 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
More training information
Apprenticeships combine real work with training and study. Unlike college or university, you’ll apply what you learn directly on the job, gaining hands-on experience and skills. How you study will be up to you (online or face to face at a training institution e.g. Farnborough College) and your studies will be fully funded, meaning you’ll not need to pay anything towards your studies, while at the same time earning money on the job and gaining valuable experience in the early years and childcare sector.
Requirements
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
- Creative
- Patience
Other requirements
The start date is flexible, this position could start as early as Tuesday 22 April (summer term 2025) or as late as the new autumn term in September 2025. It is desirable but not necessary that the apprentice works for summer term 2025 but I definitely need the apprentice to be on board by September 2025 in time for the start of the autumn term.
About this company
Rosie's Childcare has provided childminding to the local community since 2020, we love finding fun activities to take little ones to and watching them grow. We especially love nature-based activities. We have cared for babies from 9 months old to school age children. We also have experience of working with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Educational activities are always a top priority in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) which are the government standards that childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5 years old. We cook hot meals every day and often create delicious treats in the kitchen with the children.
Company benefits
It is possible to bring your own child with you. Staff who work here have their own young children at the childcare setting with them, while they also care for other children who have come for paid childminding.
After this apprenticeship
Childminder, nursery staff or manager, early years educator, pre school educator
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Rosie's Childcare
Rosie Constantine
rosies-childcare@outlook.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000304146.
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Closes on Sunday 20 April 2025
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