Early Education and Childcare Practitioners
Description
Early education and childcare practitioners lead the learning and development of and care for children from birth up to five years of age in a school, nursery, or childcare environment.
Tasks
- Promotes and leads physical activities and children’s games, play, creativity, and problem solving .
- Provides a secure and supportive environment and supervises young children at mealtimes .
- Coordinates nurturing care in bathing, dressing, preparation of feeds, feeding babies, and in changing babies and toddlers clothing whenever necessary .
- Supervises and supports other early education and childcare workers .
- Communicates with parents, colleagues and external professionals on children’s development and health and well-being .
- Leads on preparing children for transitions to different settings, including school. .
- Identifies and responds to health and safety issues .
- Coordinates observation and assessment on children’s play, development and learning.
- Plans children’s day and activities and leads on social, language and numerical development .
Entry Requirements
Level 2 NVQ; GCSE at grades A*-C
Skills
- Learning Strategies
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Monitoring
- Writing
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Active Learning
- Mathematics
- Science