Level 3 Childcare Apprenticeship

Working in a childcare setting with children ranging from ages 0-5. Your apprenticeship will last for 13 months and you will be working towards an Advanced Diploma Early Years Educator.

Requirements

• GCSE in English (grade 4)
• GCSE in Maths (grade 4)
• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical thinking
• Team working
• Creativity
• Initiative
• Non-judgemental attitude
• Patience
• Dedication, commitment, and punctuality

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.
• Helping children to learn numeracy and language skills through games, singing, role-playing, and storytelling.
• Liaising with external customers and parents to provide a high level of service for the childcare setting.
• Meeting the care needs of individual children, such as feeding, changing nappies, and administering medicine.
• Recognising when a child or a colleague is in danger or at risk of abuse and acting to protect them in line with safeguarding policy and procedure.
• Applying legislation, policy, and procedure to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of children in the setting (e.g., food safety, diets, starting solid food, allergies, COSHH, accidents, injuries, and emergencies).
• Applying the principles of risk assessment and risk management within documentation and practice.
• Teaching children to develop skills to manage risk and maintain their own and others' safety.
• Using a range of communication methods, including technology, with other professionals to meet the individual needs of the child.
• Developing and maintaining effective professional, collaborative relationships with others involved in the education and care of the child.
• Undertaking the role and responsibilities of a key person.
• Recognising and applying theories of attachment to develop effective relationships with children.
• Providing sensitive and respectful personal care for children from birth to 5 years.
• Advocating for all children's needs, including children requiring SEND or EAL support.
• Promoting and facilitating children's interpersonal communication to develop their social interactions and relationships.
• Supporting children to develop a positive sense of their own identity and culture.
• Supporting children to understand and respond to their emotions and make considered choices about their behaviours.
• Assessing the responsiveness of the environment for effective child-centred experiences in line with curriculum requirements.
• Creating inclusive, child-centred, dynamic, innovative, and evolving physical environments both indoors and outdoors.
• Creating an 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.
• Applying strategies that support children’s ability to manage change, transition, and significant events.
• Analysing observation evidence to assess and plan holistic individual learning based on a comprehensive understanding of the child’s needs and interests.
• Facilitating and supporting child-centred opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
• Providing adult-led opportunities and experiences based on the setting's curriculum and pedagogy.
• Using reflection to develop professionally and personally.