Early Years Apprentice at My Ohana Day Nursery in Cheltenham

You will plan and supervise child-initiated and adult-led activities which are based on the needs and interests of each child. You will also support children to develop numeracy and language skills through games and play. You will have key-person responsibility to help ensure each child feels safe and secure.

Your job duties will include:

• Analyse and explain how children’s learning and development can be affected by their stage of development and individual circumstances such as the needs of children learning English as an additional language from a variety of cultures.
• Promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice.
• Plan and lead activities, purposeful play opportunities and educational programmes which include the learning and development areas of current early education curriculum requirements.
• Ensure plans fully reflect the stage of development, individual needs and circumstances of children and provide consistent care and respond quickly to the needs of the child.
• Provide learning experiences, environments and opportunities appropriate to the age, stage and needs of individual and groups of children.
• Encourage children’s participation, ensuring a balance between adult-led and child-initiated activities.
• Engage in effective strategies to develop and extend children’s learning and thinking, including sustained shared thinking.
• Support and promote children’s speech, language and communication development.
• Support children’s group learning and socialisation.

Where you’ll work:

Gloucestershire College, Princess Elizabeth Way, Cheltenham, GL51 7SJ

Training:

• 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.

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements:

• GCSE in Maths (grade 4).
• Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills:

• Creative Initiative.

About this employer:

• Holiday entitlement: 28 Standard including Bank Holidays.
• Staff benefits: uniform provided, rewards and recognition scheme.
• Potential position upon completion of the apprenticeship.

Contact:

The contact for this apprenticeship is: GLOUCESTERSHIRE COLLEGE 0345 155 2020.

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000037485.