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
- Plans children’s day and activities and leads on social, language and numerical development
- Coordinates observation and assessment on children’s play, development and learning
- Identifies and responds to health and safety issues
- Leads on preparing children for transitions to different settings, including school.
- Communicates with parents, colleagues and external professionals on children’s development and health and well-being
- Supervises and supports other early education and childcare workers
- Coordinates nurturing care in bathing, dressing, preparation of feeds, feeding babies, and in changing babies and toddlers clothing whenever necessary
- Provides a secure and supportive environment and supervises young children at mealtimes
- Promotes and leads physical activities and children’s games, play, creativity, and problem solving
Educational Requirements
Qualified practitioners need to have achieved an early years degree qualification, such as Early Years Professional, Early Years Teacher, Early Childhood Studies Degree, Early Childhood Graduate Practitioner Competencies. A DBS check is mandatory.
