Early Years Apprenticeship
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Early Years Apprenticeship
Type: Apprentice
Location: Pinner (HA5 2PD)
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
- Communicate effectively with children, parents, and colleagues, ensuring a collaborative approach to care.
- Support the developmental needs of each child through planned, engaging activities.
- Maintain a safe and clean environment in line with health and safety policies.
- Report any safeguarding or safety concerns following company and local authority guidelines.
- Collaborate with the Room Leader and team to ensure high standards and compliance with audits.
- Commit to professional development and reflect on practices to improve outcomes.
- Foster positive relationships with parents and staff, supporting equality and inclusion.
Where you’ll work
Joel Street Farm
Joel Street
Northwood Hills
Pinner
HA5 2PD
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Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
FIRST RUNG LIMITED
Training course
Early years educator (level 3)
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What you’ll learn
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.
Training schedule
Training will be one day a week at our Colindale centre (NW9)
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Patience
Other requirements
This role will require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. First Rung will support you in completing this. _x000d_
If you do not meet the desirable qualifications or work experience, First Rung can assist with relevant training and work experience.
About this employer
Blossom Tree Montessori Northwood is an Outstanding setting rated by Ofsted in 2020. They provide extremely high-quality childcare and education adhering to the Montessorian principles.
They ensure a happy, safe and exciting learning environment that fosters children’s imaginations and natural love for learning abound.
They have excellent facilities and a caring and nurturing staff team that enable young children to learn at their own pace.
Investigation and exploration are encouraged to help early years
https://blossomtreemontessori.com (opens in new tab)
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