Early Years Educator Apprenticeship

Summary

We are looking for friendly, passionate and enthusiastic Nursery Apprentices to join our team at Mon Ami Nursery in Alford! This is a role which will open up a variety of career opportunities, while working alongside a fantastic, established team.

Annual wage: £9,984 a year
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Training course: Early years educator (level 3)
Hours: Monday- Friday Between the hours of 8am- 6pm
30 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 16 December
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

To help plan and execute a variety of activities for the children to learn and develop
To work as a team alongside other staff and managers to provide high-quality care and education
To observe, monitor, assess and record children’s activities
To foster and develop positive relationships with parents and carers
To promote children’s personal hygiene and healthy eating
Most importantly, to learn from and work alongside our longstanding and highly experienced staff members, providing the best possible outcomes for the children in our care

Where you’ll work

12 East Street

Alford

LN13 9EQ

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

BOSTON 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.
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 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship will take you two years to complete. You will study at Boston College for half a day a week, and four and half days with your employer.

The apprenticeship is an independent learning programme. You will complete a qualification during your training and will be expected to complete assignments on time.

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
Customer care skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Good timekeeping
Courteous and helpful

Other requirements

This apprenticeship will be based at Mon Ami Nursery in Alford.

About this company

Mon Ami Children’s Nurseries is a family-owned group of nurseries across Lincolnshire, established in 2002. We offer a flexible and fully inclusive service weekdays from 7.00am to 6.30pm for 51 weeks of the year. Our nurseries provide a unique combination of long-standing and dedicated nursery staff who work out of beautiful and homely nursery settings with amazing gardens, creating the ideal environment for children to learn and explore through play. Over our 22 (and counting!) years, we have picked up numerous nominations and awards, including NMT Nursery Practitioner of the Year, NMT Operations Manager of the Year, and Boston College Apprentice Employer of the Year. Our staff members are fantastic and a real credit to us, putting so much passion, commitment, time and effort into making each day fun and engaging for the children across our settings. Mon Ami really is a wonderful team to be a part of. If you would like to see more of what we do at Mon Ami, please do take a look at our Facebook page @MonAmiNurseries, which we regularly update.

http://www.monaminurseries.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Having gained your qualification in Early Years, there is the opportunity to progress to a full-time position as a Qualified Nursery Practitioner, subject to interview. From there, more senior roles within the nursery could potentially become available; there are members of our team who have progressed all the way from Apprentice to Manager!

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BOSTON COLLEGE

Suzanne Davison

Suzanne-d@boston.ac.uk

01205313238

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000289021.

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Closes in 12 days (Monday 9 December at 11:59pm)

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