The Role

The role of the Early Years Skills Coach is to teach, coach and support apprentices working within Early Years settings, enabling them to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to achieve their apprenticeship and become confident, competent Early Years practitioners.

The Skills Coach is responsible for delivering a high-quality learning experience throughout the apprenticeship journey, ensuring apprentices make sustained progress and successfully achieve their qualification. This includes providing engaging teaching, coaching and assessment through a blended learning approach that links theory to practice within the Early Years environment.

Working closely with apprentices, employers and workplace mentors, the Skills Coach conducts regular teaching, learning and progress reviews within the workplace, providing tailored support, constructive feedback and stretch and challenge to promote continuous professional development. They ensure apprentices develop the practical skills, professional behaviours and reflective practice needed to meet the requirements of the apprenticeship while maintaining high standards of safeguarding, child development and inclusive practice.

Why Total Training Provision?

At Total Training Provision, we believe education should empower people, strengthen organisations, and change lives. Our work is driven by our values of Accountability, Excellence, Trust, Service, Gratitude, Innovation, and Collaboration, and these values shape how we support our learners — and our people.

You’ll join a supportive, ambitious organisation where quality matters, innovation is encouraged, and your expertise is genuinely valued. We invest in our staff, trust you to do your job well, and give you the autonomy to make a real difference every day.

If you’re passionate about leadership development and want to work somewhere that combines high standards with a strong people-first culture, this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and facilitate teaching and learning, following the agreed learning journey and pathway, resulting in new knowledge, skills and behaviours.
• Support and deliver, where required, English, Maths, and ICT functional skills at level 2 throughout the learner’s learner journey.
• Complete the required number of visits and reviews for each apprentice, meeting all stakeholders’ requirements for quality and funding.
• Engage the learner’s line manager to provide support and guidance to the apprentice throughout their learner journey.
• Coach learners to collect the required evidence during training sessions, ensuring progression and to achieve necessary milestones in preparation for EPA or framework completion.
• Monitor and review learners’ welfare regularly, taking any necessary action to reduce early leavers from the programme and maintain agreed caseload levels.
• Carry out enrichment activities with learners around Prevent, Safeguarding and British Values.
• Manage and complete administration duties within the given timescales, ensuring all paperwork deadlines are achieved.
• Ensure knowledge of all subject areas for both standards and frameworks is kept constantly updated by way of self-development (CPD) and standardisation events.
• Research the industry regularly to keep abreast of market developments and trends, including competitors’ practices and delivery activities.
• Evaluate and modify training delivery as a result of learner satisfaction and key stakeholder feedback, audits, or observations of teaching, learning and assessment.
• Monitor health and safety and learner accidents within the apprentice’s workplaces.
• To provide effective CEIAG service to both internal and external clients/ customers.
• Promote Total Training Provision at every opportunity with funding bodies, learners, placements, careers, schools, and any other applicable external body.
• Any other duties as requested by management.