Early Years Workforce Diploma

The course is rewarding, challenging and intensive and requires a great deal of commitment and motivation. You will need to be able to research and work independently both in College and for a substantial amount of time at home. There are many employment opportunties in the childcare and education sector, such as classroom assistant, nursery nurse and child care practitioner. After gaining employment you will be qualified to supervise children and be well positioned for career progression to management In order to aid holistic delivery and assessment the units are structured around the following four themes: Theme 1: Health and well-being Theme 2: Legislation, frameworks and professional practice Theme 3: Play, development and learning for school readiness Theme 4: Professional development Placements are required for achievement of this qualification. A minimum of 350 placement hours is required. Placements will be undertaken in at least 2 different settings to cover the following age ranges: 0–1 year and 11 months: 25 hours 2–2 years and 11 months: 133 hours 3–5 years: 192 hours