About the Course: Embark on a rewarding journey with us as you explore the fascinating world of child development and caregiving. The Level 3 Diploma is designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge needed when working with children 0-12yrs. However, while on the course your placement
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Welcome to the City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Children’s Care, Learning, and Development (Northern Ireland)
About the Course: Embark on a rewarding journey with us as you explore the fascinating world of child development and caregiving. The Level 3 Diploma is designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge needed when working with children 0-12yrs. However, while on the course your placement must be in a setting working with children up to the age of 5yrs 11months.
Work Settings: Immerse yourself in real-world experiences within regulated or inspected early years settings. Whether it's a registered childminding setting, playgroup, day care nursery, statutory nursery setting, foundation phase provision, or Sure Start provision – you'll be surrounded by opportunities to make a meaningful impact on young lives.
Roles You Can Pursue: Upon completion, you can step into various leadership roles, including room supervisor, childminder, nursery nurse, Sure Start room leader, or playgroup room leader. This diploma opens doors to fulfilling careers in full-day care, sessional care, childminding, and out-of-school clubs.
Programme Options: Tailor your learning experience with flexible delivery options. Choose between a part time work-based learning programme, or an apprenticeship.
The Level 3 Diploma acts as a fast track, allowing you to complete it in just one year, making you an attractive candidate for supervisory roles sought by employers in the early years sector.
Course Highlights:
Theoretical Knowledge: Delve into subjects such as special educational needs, safeguarding, child development, and play. Your understanding will be assessed through child observations, case studies, and assignments, ensuring you become a knowledgeable and employable practitioner.
Practical Competency: Showcase your skills during placements, supported by our dedicated staff team. Accumulate a minimum of 600 placement hours in early years settings, working with children up to 5 years and 11 months, to solidify your practical competency.
Belfast Met is the largest Further and Higher Education College in Northern Ireland and one of the largest in the UK.
We have developed a dynamic new curriculum which mirrors the priority growth areas identified for Northern Ireland as this is where future jobs will be created. Through our partnerships with industry, we constantly adapt our curriculum to meet the skill demands of our economy.
We provide a unique breadth of education and training at every level and have designed a portfolio of courses to address a variety of skill needs – from apprenticeship and Level 1 courses, to those undertaking degrees and post-graduate study.
Coupled with this is our commitment to ensuring that our students have access to opportunities which will enhance their employability and job-ready skills.
Our focus for the future is to support the development of Belfast by providing education, training and skills development to enhance individual, community and economic prosperity.
Over the next three years we will sustain and improve our responsiveness to learners, employers and communities. The College has already built an excellent reputation with employers for offering relevant, high quality learning.
We will build on this by focusing on developing long-term mutually beneficial partnerships and becoming recognised as an expert in key and emerging growth areas.
Working in partnership, we will increase participation, progression, attainment and skill levels of all our students.
This Level 3, career-focused short course will help you apply your current skills to the teaching/training environment or take your existing teaching/training experience to a new level.
This one-year course is aimed at those who are not currently employed within a teaching environment. The course will help you to develop your teaching skills, reflect on current ideas about education and training and creatively explore the professional opportunities open to you.
The Level 3 Award in Education and Training (QCF) is the introductory teaching qualification for teaching adults or training adults in a college or further educational or working environment. You are not required to be teaching already as this course will give you a foundation of knowledge.
Great teachers make a difference to the lives of every child they teach everyday. Crucially, they have the knowledge, skills and understanding to teach excellent lessons - that have a positive impact on all pupils.
Education and training are the keys to the future. A key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away; turn it other way and you realize resources and give people back to themselves.
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