Apprentice Early Years Practitioner

Culverdene Nursery Apprentice Opportunity

Culverdene Nursery have an excellent opportunity for an apprentice to join the team. Your role will involve working alongside a highly qualified team in a multi-agency environment. You will have the opportunity to work across a variety of age ranges with an onsite mentor.

What You'll Do at Work

• Meeting with your training provider and completing assignments on time
• Attending team meetings and participating in sharing ideas
• Under supervision, provide all aspects of care for children including washing, changing, and feeding
• Assisting with meeting the personal and emotional needs of individual children
• Providing adult interaction with the children in the nursery
• Attending all training relevant to the role and deemed appropriate
• Reading, understanding, and adhering to all policies and procedures relevant to your role
• Contributing to good standards of safety, hygiene, and cleanliness in the nursery
• Developing and maintaining strong partnerships and communications with parents/carers

Where You'll Work

32 Grainger Park Road
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE4 8SA

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

Training Provider
Derwentside College

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.