Level 3 Childcare Apprenticeship

Working in a childcare setting with children ranging from ages 0 - 5. You will be working towards an Advanced Diploma Early Years. Your apprenticeship will last for 13-months. This apprenticeship requires dedication, commitment and punctuality for you to be successful.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Working in a childcare setting with children ranging from ages 0-5
• Completing a variety of day-to-day childcare tasks to ensure that children’s needs, welfare and education is catered for. This can include helping children to learn numeracy and language skills through games, take part in singing, role play and storytelling and more
• Liaising with external customers and parents to provide a high level of service for the childcare setting
• Meets the care needs of the individual child such as feeding, changing nappies and administration of medicine

Requirements

• GCSE in: English (grade C/4 and above)
• GCSE in: Maths (grade C/4 and above)
• Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Creative
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Patience
• Ability to 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.
• Ability to 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).
• Ability to apply the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
• Ability to teach children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others safety.
• Ability to use a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
• Ability to undertake the role and responsibilities of key person.
• Ability to recognise and apply theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
• Ability to provide sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
• Ability to advocate for all children’s needs, including children which require SEND or EAL support.
• Ability to promote and facilitate children’s interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
• Ability to support children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
• Ability to support children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
• Ability to assess the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
• Ability to create inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
• Ability to 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.
• Ability to apply strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
• Ability to analyse observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
• Ability to facilitate and support child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
• Ability to provide adult led opportunities and experience based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
• Ability to use reflection to develop themselves both professionally and personally.