Early Years Educator Apprenticeship
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Early Years Educator Apprenticeship
Type: Apprentice
Location: HOPE VALLEY (S32 3XG)
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
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get practical experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
- Provide high-quality care and early years education to children aged 0-5.
- Support children’s development through age-appropriate activities and play-based learning.
- Observe, assess, and document children’s progress in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework.
- Work closely with the team to plan and implement a curriculum that meets the needs of individual children.
- Establish and maintain positive relationships with children, parents, and colleagues.
- Ensure that children are safe, and their well-being is always a priority.
- Promote and encourage positive behaviour, social skills, and emotional development.
- Assist in maintaining a clean and safe environment, adhering to health and safety guidelines.
- Support with daily routines, including mealtimes, nappy changes, and nap times.
- Participate in regular team meetings, training, and professional development opportunities.
Where you’ll work
CALVER
HOPE VALLEY
S32 3XG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
BEST PRACTICE NETWORK LIMITED
Your training course
Early years educator (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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.
Your training plan
- The program offers a blended approach, including virtual classrooms, webinars, work-based tasks and online assignments
- We use an online platform (BUD) that helps you learn the topics and skills, reflect on your practice and build your portfolio
- Candidates are not required to attend college. Instead, this will include off-the-job training hours (OTJH) used throughout this apprenticeship
- These OTJH will be within working hours of employment – e.g., 30+ hours per week = 6 hours per week OTJH. Less than 30 hours is 20% OTJH
- You will also receive one-to-one support and tuition from your apprenticeship tutor. This tutor will make in-person visits to you at the nursery, or schedule online meetings every 5–6 weeks
- Early Years Educator Level 3 (A level) Apprenticeship Standard
- Training will include paediatric first aid qualification
More training information
Best Practice Network is one of the UK’s leading providers of training, development and support for education professionals.
We share the desire of every practitioner that every child, regardless of their background, should benefit from an excellent education. We do this by working in close partnership with practising education professionals to develop and deliver high-quality CPD and qualifications that help school leaders, teachers, early years practitioners, business managers, support staff and SENCOs be the best they can be and transform the lives of children and young people.
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
Baslow Edge nursery are looking for an enthusiastic and conscientious apprentice to join their friendly and welcoming team. Ideally you will have a love of outdoor learning.
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