Summary
This apprenticeship is ideal for someone with some prior knowledge and experience within a nursery or school setting and especially someone passionate about childcare and early years, looking to further their career.
What you will do at work
- Providing an excellent range of activities that ensures that the child learns whilst having fun
- Supporting children’s learning and development, including supporting planning and observations
- Preparing and maintaining the environment and resources for the children
- Preparation of food for breakfast, snack and afternoon tea
- Supporting children’s self-help needs
- Being creative and enthusiastic
- Following safeguarding rules
- Undertaking first aid training as required
- Undertaking training as appropriate to meet any changes in standards or appropriate legal requirements as required
- Ensuring that all health and hygiene requirements are always adhered to
Training
- You will gain a Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification at the end of the course
- All training is completed remotely via teams
- Your tutor will be there to support you throughout and visit your setting
- Online remote training sessions will take place once every week for the first 8 weeks, and they’ll be scheduled in as and when
- You will complete your Level 3 Paediatric First Aid
Requirements and skills
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Qualifications
- GCSE English (4) – essential
- GCSE Maths (4) – essential
About this employer
We provide a welcoming and emotionally secure environment where learning takes place through a careful balance of play experiences and structured activities. Activities are planned by the staff to enable children to develop necessary skills in the EYFS curriculum.
After this apprenticeship
- After completion, you will develop into a Level 3 Early years educator, with the potential of a permanent position upon successful completion
- There is also the potential to go into other childcare-orientated roles, e.g., social work, teaching, managerial roles etc.