Early Education and Childcare Practitioners
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.
Wages
New workers start around £8,427. Normal pay is £16,859 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £24,250.
Available jobs
In the past year there were 72,116 vacancies for this type of job
3.64%
Projected job growth over the next 8 years
Related courses
People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.
What they do most days?
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 .
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.