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Apprentice Childminding Assistant at Buttercups Childminders

Ramsgate
£10k/yr
Posted 1 day ago
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Job Role

The job role will include working with children of different ages, helping provide a supportive environment for all children and planning and assisting with activities. For the right person, there is the opportunity to secure full-time employment and progress to higher level qualifications.

What You'll Do at Work

  • Helping provide a supportive environment for children
  • Working alongside team members to help plan and execute a range of activities
  • Set up and tidy away on a daily basis
  • Monitoring children’s progress
  • Cleaning
  • Nappy changes
  • Working with parents to ensure the best for their children

Where You'll Work

4 Walnut Tree Cottages
Coldswood Road
Ramsgate
CT12 5AH

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training Provider

PROFILE DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING LIMITED

Training Course

Early years educator (level 3)

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.

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Training Schedule

  • Level 3 Early Years Educator Apprenticeship Standard
  • Paediatric First Aid
  • Functional Skills in English and maths at level 2 if required
  • Work-based and tutor-supported online training
  • Preparation for End Point Assessment

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Essential Qualifications

  • GCSE in:
    • Maths and English (grade 9-4 or A* to C (or predicted))

Desirable Qualifications

  • GCSE in:
    • Level 2 Childcare (grade Pass)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Other Requirements

This job can be hard when babies are unsettled, or colds are rife and you need to be able to leave anything at the door and be the happy person the children want to see. Also changing a nappy can be a challenge. Please note that if you do not have a level 2 childcare qualification, you will still be considered for this role if you have some relevant work experience.

Buttercups Childminder's is an Ofsted registered company with 5 star reviews. Buttercups has the interests of children at the heart. They help the children, learn, be creative and grow as an individual.

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.

Potential for full-time employment

The qualifications you gain can help towards higher education or other employment

Being an apprentice gives you the opportunity to gain qualifications and develop professional skills whilst earning a salary

Contact

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

PROFILE DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING LIMITED

Vicky Davies
vicky.davies@profiledt.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000043852.

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Skills

Communication with children
Communication with parents
Willing to learn
Attention to detail
Creative
Energetic
Talkative
Bubbly
Caring
Kind
Loving
Friendly
Patient

Location

Walnut Tree Cottages, 2 Coldswood Rd, Ramsgate CT12 5AH, UK

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