Childcare and Education Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships made for you

Our apprenticeships offer on-the-job training combined with academic learning to produce competent and capable employees. Investing in your employees will offer you the chance to embed new skills and grow talent within the workplace.

In partnership with The Institute of Apprenticeships, we can offer Childcare and Education Apprenticeships from level 2 to level 7. Meaning that you can up-skill your workforce, no matter what stage of their career they're currently at.

Our Childcare and Education Apprenticeships

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Early Years Practitioner L2 Apprenticeship

Work and interact directly with children on a day to day basis supporting the planning of and delivery of activities.

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Early Years Educator L3 Apprenticeship

Highly trained professionals who play a key role in ensuring that young children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe.

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Teaching Assistant L3 Apprenticeship

Supporting the class teacher to enhance pupils’ learning.

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Learning and Skills Teacher L5 Apprenticeship

Teaching young people and adults within all parts of the education and training sector.

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Teacher L6 Apprenticeship

Educating young people to achieve the highest possible standards.

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Academic Professional L7 Apprenticeship

Working within the higher education (HE) sector delivering higher education teaching

Children, young people and families practitioner L4 Apprenticeship

We also offer the below L4 Apprenticeship, please see the information below. This apprenticeship is part of the social care sector and unfortunately not a progression route from the Level 3 course.

As a practitioner you will be working with children, young people and families, including carers, to achieve positive and sustainable change in their lives. You will demonstrate a passion to care for and about children, young people and families.

OPTION 1: Practitioner in Children's Residential Care

OPTION 2: Children, Young People and Families Practitioner within the Community

Duration: Typically 24 months for new entrants. For those with relevant qualifications and experience in the health and social care field, 12 to 18 months. 

Get in contact

To find out how we can support your organisation to upskill your staff, get in contact with our team.

Tom Malpass at Buxton and Leek College.

Tom Malpass
Business Development Manager, Apprenticeships and Skills

Tom works with businesses across the D2N2 area and Staffordshire. He works with them on how apprenticeships could help their business grow through either recruiting new staff as apprentices or using apprenticeships to help existing members of staff to develop.

Email
t.malpass@blc.ac.uk
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Discovering her love for teaching with the help of our Teacher Apprenticeship

Samantha had been a Teaching Assistant for twenty years, but after teaching a class of fourteen- to nineteen-year-olds with profound and multiple learning difficulties, Samantha was introduced to a completely different side to teaching, sparking the start of a new career path.

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