Early Years Educator Apprentice - Little Wizards Pre-School, Stockport
Early Years Educator Apprentice
LITTLE WIZARDS PRE-SCHOOL LTD, STOCKPORT, CHESHIRE (SK12 2PY)
Summary
Working with children from 9 months to 5 years, understanding their development and how as an early years practitioner you can support them with a varied and rewarding early years curriculum following the EYFS.
Duration
18 Months
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
- Follow the nursery and childrens daily routines.
- Support the staff in the care and learning of the children.
- Help to set up and prepare the the nursery daily with clean and thought provoking invitations to play.
- Support the staff in planning age appropriate actitivies and recording progress.
- Ensuring the safeguarding and welbeing of the children in our care.
- Any other duties that fit your role or add to your knowledge, skills or behaviours.
Where you’ll work
UNIT E B’S MILLS, BUXTON ROAD, STOCKPORT CHESHIRE, SK12 2PY
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
Your training course
Early years educator
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.
- 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.
Your training plan
You will attend on-campus activity days every 6 weeks, transport is available, you will also be visited in the workplace on a regular basis by your instructor-mentor who will complete observations and professional discussions.
You will spend approx. 20% of your working week completing off the job training, this includes on-campus activity days but, will also be training in the workplace such as shadowing.
More training information
You will work alongside a warm and friendly team setting up the environment for the children daily with interesting and challenging activities, you will take part in the daily routine of the nursery serving snacks and lunch and cleaning all with the support of the qualified staff. Time will be given for you to complete your course work weekly and you will have the support of a mentor within the nursery.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
- GCSE English (Grade 4 or above) essential
- GCSE Maths (Grade 4 or above) essential
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Reliable
- An interest in the industry
- Ability to learn from peers
- A desire to learn
Other requirements
Please consider how you will get to work each day.
We regularly take the children outdoors in all weathers.
About this company
We are an independent nursery with places for 70 children per day from 9 months-5 years. the owners are also the managers and are onsite every day. We open at 8.30am and close at 5.30pm term time only with limited days holiday club.
www.littlewizardspreschool.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Company Benefits
You will receive a uniform, lunch every day and the chance to join the staff on two social events a year paid for by the company.
After this apprenticeship
Excellent potential for a permanent role with the company.
