Early Years Apprentice - Little Forest Folk Winkworth

Are you a passionate early year's practitioner looking to develop your career in a fully outdoor forest nursery setting? Little Forest Folk Winkworth has a great opportunity to train as an Early Years Educator Apprentice and gain your level 3 whilst supporting children's learning, play and development and building key relationships.

Requirements

• Genuine passion for the outdoors and working with children.
• Desire to complete a Level 3 Early Years qualification.
• GCSE in English Language (grade 4).
• GCSE in Mathematics (grade 4).
• Enhanced DBS required and annual subscription to DBS update service.
• Other relevant qualifications and industry experience are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high standard of physical, emotional, social and intellectual care for children aged 2-5 years in an outdoor setting.
• Act as a key person for a group of children.
• Support planning, observations, and assessments.
• Ensure the safeguarding, welfare, and wellbeing of all children at all times.
• Use passion for the outdoors to deliver a fantastic experience for children.
• Work with the team to create an enabling environment where children can develop and learn through play.
• Build strong, positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues.
• Recognise when a child or 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.
• Apply principles of risk assessment and risk management.
• 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 individual needs.
• Develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships.
• Undertake the role and responsibilities of a key person.
• Recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships.
• Provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
• Advocate for all children’s needs, including those requiring SEND or EAL support.
• Promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop 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.
• Create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments.
• Create inclusive and supportive emotional environments that enable children to feel safe, secure, respected, and experience wellbeing.
• Apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
• Analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning.
• Facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences.
• Provide adult-led opportunities and experiences.
• Use reflection to develop professionally and personally.