The Role

The successful apprentice will be supporting to provide a safe, happy, and well-disciplined learning environment, which enables our children to acquire a wide range of knowledge, skills, and practical abilities.

What You'll Do at Work

• Working in one of our rooms, explorers, and reporting to room leader, deputy manager and nursery manager.
• Engaging with children through their everyday play and social interactions and following curriculum.
• Read stories and singing songs.
• Messy and sensory activities.
• Help support team through everyday cleaning and washing routines.
• Continuous risk assessment of the environment and reporting to room leader.
• Supporting children in their growing independence, such as hand washing, putting on own clothes, coats, and shoes and toilet training etc.
• Learn how to change nappies.
• Help plan and set up activities around children’s growing interests, both indoors and outdoors.
• Supporting children through mealtimes and sleep routines.
• Recording of accidents and medicines with room leader guidance.
• Parent partnerships.
• Possible keyperson role after progression of expectations.
• Follow policies and procedures of the nursery.

Where You'll Work

Hertford Regional College
High Road
Turnford
Herts
EN10 6AE

Training

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

Training provider
HERTFORD REGIONAL COLLEGE

Training course
Early years educator (level 3)

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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.