Early Years Childcare Skills Coach

Job Title and Salary

Early Years & Childcare Apprenticeship Skills Coach

£28k – £34k Permanent Full Time

Travelling to meet learners at Nurseries around North West

To apply you will need access to a car and have full driving licence, all travel expenses paid

• 25 days hols plus bank holidays
• Christmas and birthday off
• CPD
• Healthcare
• vouchers
• team events
• progression opportunities
• long service awards include extra annual leave dep on length of service
• vouchers for colleagues who reach a work anniversary
• early finish Fridays
• buy up to 5 days annual leave and sell up to 3

Do you have your Level 3 AET & CAVA qualifications ? Our client are happy to take on unqualified skills coaches as long as you are willing to do the qualifications as part of the onboarding process.

Have you spent many years in Childcare and Early Years and looking to start a new career supporting and helping learners achieve their Early Years and Childcare qualifications ? If yes, this could be your next move.

Our training provider based in South Yorkshire believe education should empower people, strengthen organisations, and change lives. Their work is driven by their values of Accountability, Excellence, Trust, Service, Gratitude, Innovation, and Collaboration, and these values shape how they support our learners — and their people. You’ll join a supportive, ambitious organisation where quality matters, innovation is encouraged, and your expertise is genuinely valued.

We invest in our staff, trust you to do your job well, and give you the autonomy to make a real difference every day. If you’re passionate about leadership development and want to work somewhere that combines high standards with a strong people-first culture, this is the role for you

The role of the Early Years / Childcare Skills Coach is to teach, coach and support the development and progression of our learners on apprenticeship programmes. To ensure the delivery the apprenticeship standards knowledge, skills and behaviours or framework components throughout the learner journey are delivered through a quality process. To teach, coach and support learners within work-based settings delivering effective and engaging training via a blended learning approach.

• To conduct regular teaching and learning visits to ensure continuous development, progression and achievement of learners allocated on the caseload
• Deliver and facilitate teaching and learning which follows the agreed learning journey and pathway and results in new knowledge, skills and behaviours being applied by learners in their workplace
• Support and deliver, where required, English, Maths, and ICT functional skills at level 2 throughout the learner’s learner journey
• Complete the required number of visits and reviews required for each apprentice, meeting all stakeholders’ requirements of quality and funding
• Engage the learner’s line manager to provide adequate support and guidance needed by the learner as outlined on the learner journey
• Coach learners to collect the required evidence during training sessions, to ensure progression for their apprenticeship and to achieve the necessary milestones in preparation for EPA or framework completion
• Monitor and review learners’ welfare on a regular basis, taking any necessary action to limit the number of early leavers from the programme and maintain agreed caseload levels
• Carry out enrichment activities with learners around the Prevent, Safeguarding and British Values