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Childcare Apprenticeship – Level 3 Early Years Educator (WM)
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Childcare Apprenticeship – Level 3 Early Years Educator (WM)
This apprenticeship is ideal for someone with some prior knowledge and experience within a nursery or school setting and especially someone passionate in childcare and early years, looking to further their career.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Responsibilities
- Providing an excellent range of activities that ensures that the child learns whilst having fun
- Providing challenging and stimulating activities for all children appropriately
- Supporting children’s learning and development, including supporting planning and observations
- Preparing and maintaining the environment and resources for the children
- Preparation of food for breakfast, snack and afternoon tea
- Supporting children’s self-help needs
- Being creative and enthusiastic
- Following safeguarding rules, Undertaking First Aid training as required
- Undertaking training as appropriate to meet any changes in standards or appropriate legal requirements as required
- Ensuring that all Health and Hygiene requirements are always adhered to
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Requirements
- GCSE in: English (grade 4), Maths (grade 4)
- Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
About Tipton Toddlers
Tipton Toddlers is owned by sisters Kerry and Vicky. They maintain strong family values that form the foundation of the Tipton Toddlers’ ethos. They are committed to making every child they provide care for feel part of their childcare family.
Benefits
- Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship.
- After completion, you will develop into a Level 3 practitioner, with the potential of a permanent position upon successful completion.
- There is also the potential to go into other childcare orientated roles e.g., social work, teaching, managerial roles etc.
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Application Process
- Training provider: LEAPING MAN LEARNING LIMITED
- Training course: Early years educator (level 3)
- What you'll learn:
- 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.
- Training schedule:
- You will gain a Level 3 Early years Educator qualification at the end of the course
- All training is completed remotely via teams, your tutor will be there to support you throughout and visit your setting
- Online remote training sessions will take place once every week for the first 8 weeks and they’ll be scheduled in as and when
- You will complete your Level 3 Paediatric First Aid
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The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000040388.
Contact
- LEAPING MAN LEARNING LIMITED
- Amy Langwith
- al@swiftcc.co.uk
- 0121 594 0453
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