Children’s Care, play, learning and development: Practice Level 3 (College Course)
- Aberystwyth Campus
Working with children can be a rewarding and fulfilling career choice for individuals who have a passion for shaping and nurturing young minds.
It is a deeply rewarding career that allows you to make a lasting impact on young lives and shape their development, support their growth, and help them reach their potential in crucial formative years.
By working with children, you’re not only shaping their future but also enriching your own life with experiences that are both challenging and profoundly rewarding.
Course details
- Part time
- English
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This qualification is practice-based and assesses learners’ knowledge and practice. It is designed for learners in work-based learning.
This is a flexible course, designed to suit learners who prefer to continue working alongside the qualification.
The qualification will assess learners’ knowledge and practice as they demonstrate that they:
- Understand, and apply in practice, the underpinning principles and values
- Understand, and apply, in practice, child-centred approaches
- Promote and support child development
- Are aware of key policies and how these affect service development and delivery
- Work in partnership with children, their families, carers, other professionals
- Reflect on practice to continuously improve
- Apply a range of problem solving techniques
- Use literacy, numeracy and digital competency skills as appropriate
Completion of this qualification enables learners to work as a qualified level three childcare worker unsupervised and, in many work settings, in a leadership role.
The qualification prepares learners to progress to:
- Level 4 Professional Practice Children’s Care, Play, Learning and Development
- Level 4 Preparing for Leadership and Management in Children’s Care, Play, Learning and Development.
Learners may also want to progress to:
- Level 3 Health and Social Care: Practice (Children and Young People)
- Advanced GCE/Advanced Subsidiary GCE in Health and Social Care
Learners must meet additional age and experience related requirements for some leadership roles in this sector.
The level three Children’s Care, Play, Learning and Development: practice qualification is assessed through a combination of internal and external assessment. Learners must successfully complete:
- An externally set, internally marked set of tasks
- A portfolio of evidence
- A professional discussion.
You will be required to undertake a successful interview and be formally assessed using the WEST toolkit.
You will also require a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
You will need to provide your own stationery. Sufficient time must be permitted by the workplace to allow regular meetings between assessor, learner and manager.