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Apprentice Early Years Educator
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We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed practitioner to join the team here at the Early Years Learning Centre. Can you interact and engage with children at all times, receive guidance, be enthusiastic and motivated whilst progressing in your childcare career? Apply now if yes!
What you'll do at 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.
- To contribute to the creation of a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for all children and learn how to do this
- To carry out the policies, procedures and ethos of the setting, to promote positive values and attitudes, ensuring these are being carried out throughout the setting
- To demonstrate and then ensure that they are responsible for the needs of all children in their designated room, following systems to ensure consistent, high-quality care
- To be vigilant and protect children from harm or abuse, reporting any concerns immediately - in accordance with safeguarding or whistleblowing policies
- To learn and then ensure that they can use resources effectively, maintaining ratios in their room
- To learn how to reflect on their practice and routines, tailoring them to meet the individual needs of each child throughout the day for their key children
- To learn how to plan and ensure that there is a provision of a stimulating range of developmentally appropriate activities and ensuring their room is well-resourced and creatively set-up
- To learn how to and then carry out observations and the assessment of children’s learning and development, ensuring records are kept up-to-date, are of a high standard and are shared effectively – includes Individual Education Plans for children with Special Educational Needs
- To develop genuine bonds with their key children and support their team’s key person system responsibilities, when this skill has been learnt
- To work in partnership with all parents/carers, building and maintaining relationships that encourage trust, open communication and involvement in nursery life whilst remaining professional at all times and maintaining confidentiality
- Having a mentor to show them what this looks like in practice before they are left to do this on a one to one with families and children
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Where you'll work
72 Lindley Road
London
E10 6QT
Training provider
EDEN TRAINING SOLUTIONS 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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