At LEYF your training is FREE and you are paid £100 a week as you receive 1 days training and 4 days of nursery work-based learning a week. Your work place will be in a nursery where you get the additional benefit of a mentor who will support you throughout your training. You will also receive access to a professional coach throughout your training.

What’s in it for you?

• Get paid as you learn
• A life-long career that helps change lives
• FREE work-based training
• Recognised QCF Level 3 Diploma for the Children’s and Young People’s Workforce (on completion)
• ‘Step into Learning’: an integration programme to help prepare you for the apprenticeship
• Qualified Mentor providing on-going, work-based support
• Access to a wide range of resources, text books and computers
• On the job assessment (which counts towards your final qualification)
• Your own professional coach

What does the Future Hold?

Once you hold a Level 3 Diploma for the Children’s and Young People’s Workforce the world is wide open to you. Our graduates go on to employment as Nursery Officers, International Holiday Representatives, Nannies, Child-minders, Play Therapists and Youth Workers. Some of our graduates also choose to go to university, in most instances, to undertake a Degree in primary teaching.

What Areas will the Course Cover?

• Key skills in communication
• Key skills in numeracy
• Key Skills in ICT
• Improving your own learning and performance
• Paediatric First Aid
• Employment rights and responsibilities
• Implementing and reviewing activities (in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage)
• Theories of child development