Early Years Lead Practitioner – L5

• Promote the health, well-being of all children, self-regulation and resilience through rich learning environments, opportunities for challenging play, healthy attitude towards risk taking
• Provide playful, sensitive interaction opportunities that reflect children’s needs, interests, motivations and extend deep level learning
• Participate in and lead daily routines and practice, including children’s’ personal care, play, maintaining the physical environment.
• Be an effective key person and advocate for the child, supporting the child’s developmental, emotional, daily needs
• Ensure the effectiveness of the key person approach across the aspect or environment for which they are responsible.
• Lead and provide support in disseminating best practice in the use of observation, assessments and planning to meet children’s needs and extend their holistic development within the aspect or environment for which they are responsible
• Promote, demonstrate, and facilitate a clear understanding of diversity and equality to support all children, including those with additional needs, those of high ability, those with English as an additional language and those with disabilities. To be able to use and evaluate distinctive approaches which engage and support inclusivity of all children within their social and cultural context
• Ensure full compliance with all safeguarding legislation, policies and strategies at a national, local, and setting based level are promoted, implemented, and embedded respectfully within practice, providing appropriate support to colleagues as, or supporting, the Designated Safeguarding Lead
• Demonstrate leaderful practice through the effective deployment of resources and practitioners keeping the child’s voice and needs central to practice

Current DBS

The gateway meeting is a milestone in the learner journey as it marks the end of the on-programme learning and the completion of the End Point Assessment Toolkit.

The learner, employer and Skills Coach will meet and agree that the learner meets the requirements of the standard and are ready for the end-point assessment.