Early Year Educator Apprentice (Level 3)

Responsible for providing the best possible standards of care and education, as well as ensuring the environment is safe and secure, where the children are valued as individuals through a loving and child-centred approach. They must ensure the children have access to play opportunities throughout their time at the setting; providing activities which are stimulating and fun. They will be responsible for following policies and procedures and refer any matters to senior members of staff. They will be responsible for a key group of children, they will form strong relationships with the parents and communicate to them about their child’s development. 

Responsibilities:  

To assist in providing a safe, supportive and caring environment for children in the care of Greenside Care Club; to ensure that all aspects of each individual child’s development are given full consideration.  To provide a broad and balanced Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum   To observe, record and monitor children’s development   To be proactive in the process of planning and developing children’s play, by organising, supporting and taking part in play activities  To act as a positive role model for children.  To ensure that communication with children, parents and the staff team is polite and courteous at all times.    To liaise and provide professional advice to parents and other professionals that are involved with the child.  To assist in offering support to parents and families where necessary.  To develop a thorough knowledge of all of the settings operational policies and procedures; ensuring that they are followed and respected at all times.   To maintain confidentiality procedures about all issues related to children and their families, your own and other staff members issues and any other management or operational issues.   To maintain and follow all Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times including reading and following risk assessments.   To ensure that accident and medication forms are completed and reported to supervisor/manager when required.  To ensure any incidents are reported to supervisor/manager   To understand and respect the need for consistency of care for the children – report for duty on time, maintain regular attendance, give appropriate notice of holiday requests and report nonattendance through sickness promptly and appropriately.   To follow all routines, duties, timetables, rotas, record keeping activities and any other reasonable duty as requested by your manager or deputy manager.   To ensure that clean and hygienic standards are maintained at all times. This includes daily cleaning rotas and other nursery/housekeeping duties.   To take responsibility for continued professional development by attending courses (in-house and external), staff meetings/training, receiving constructive feedback and reading relevant material. 

Training:

You will work towards a Level 3 Early years educator apprenticeship qualification. Functional Skills in maths and English, if required
Paediatric first aid qualification.

You will be mainly work based, ie the assessor will visit you in the workplace, however you will visit college 1 x day per month.
You will have 6 hours off the job training to complete each week.

Training Outcome:

TBC.

Employer Description:
Greenside Care Club is a parent committee organisation situated on the site of Greenside Primary school, Pudsey providing childcare for children ages 3-11 years. We provide early education for children ages 3-4 years, before and after school care for children ages 3-11 years and holiday play scheme care for children ages 3-11 years.

Working Hours :
Working Days and times: Monday to Wednesday, 7.30am - 6.00pm.

Skills:
Communication skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Customer care skills,Problem solving skills,Logical,Team working,Initiative,Non judgemental,Physical fitness,Honest and reliable,Patient and empathetic,Enthusiastic and committed