Summary
This apprenticeship is ideal for someone with some prior knowledge and experience within a nursery or school setting and especially someone passionate in 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 believe Didsbury Childminding offers a very unique outlook on nursery life. We offer a homely natural environment with familiar and comforting resources whilst giving the children the opportunity to explore the wider community with trips to museums, fletcher moss, library and Didsbury Park a daily occurrence.
We take inspiration from the curiosity approach- which places emphasis on child led learning with lots of lovely open ended natural resources and daily invitations to play. We would be delighted to show you exactly what makes us so special and why we are different from other nursery providers- so please do call to arrange a viewing.
After this apprenticeship
After completion, you will develop into a Level 3 practitioner, 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.