Child Care Career - Everything You Need to Know

A nursery nurse or early years practitioner is someone who looks after babies and young
children in the years before they go to school, at five years old. Working in childcare is an
extremely important role as it is an area that concentrates on the educational and social
development of the young children being cared for.

Typically, as you will see from the information on our website working as a nursery nurse would
include the following activities with the children in their care:

• Reading to the children
• Helping younger children begin to learn numbers through counting games etc.
• Being aware of how children are developing and keeping a note of their progress to
  share with their parents
• Studying for further qualifications in early years that will follow the foundation stage
  standard for the industry
• Always ensuring that children are safe and that any concerns are reported
• For babies and very young children, nappy changing will also be part of the duties
• Supervising children at mealtimes

The type of experience and the skill that you will need will centre around:

• Enjoying being with babies and younger children
• Having a genuine interest in the development of children
• Having at the creativity and imagination to amuse and play with children
• Being patient and enthusiastic in your dealings with young children
• Demonstrating a kind and caring nature
• Having the ability to work as part of a larger team

Many of the nursery nurses who take child care courses with us initially start working as a nursery
assistant while being supervised by staff who are more experienced.

To become a fully qualified nursery nurse, you will need to go on to take further childcare
qualifications. You can visit our website and see all the information that you will need if you
are considering a career in caring for children. The link to our website is:
https://www.thelearningstation.co.uk/childcare-courses

The courses that we offer include a different levels of diploma in childcare as well as higher
qualifications specifically for an early years practitioner. Visit our website for the full details
of the courses available. https://www.thelearningstation.co.uk/childcare-courses

Once a nursery nurse has some experience he or she can go on to study higher qualifications
in child development and early years and again the full list of those further qualifications can
be found on our website https://www.thelearningstation.co.uk/childcare-courses.

Working with babies and young children is a very responsible and very interesting career and
one that can be exceptionally rewarding. As a first step contact us to see what qualifications
and training you need for the area of early years childcare that you are interested in. Even if
you already have some qualifications and now want to increase your educational standing in
early years we will be able to help you undertake the appropriate qualifications.