Apprenticeship Skills Coach – Early Years

The Role

The role of the Early Years Skills Coach is to teach, coach and support apprentices working within Early Years settings, enabling them to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to achieve their apprenticeship and become confident, competent Early Years practitioners.

The Skills Coach is responsible for delivering a high-quality learning experience throughout the apprenticeship journey, ensuring apprentices make sustained progress and successfully achieve their qualification. This includes providing engaging teaching, coaching and assessment through a blended learning approach that links theory to practice within the Early Years environment.

Working closely with apprentices, employers and workplace mentors, the Skills Coach conducts regular teaching, learning and progress reviews within the workplace, providing tailored support, constructive feedback and stretch and challenge to promote continuous professional development. They ensure apprentices develop the practical skills, professional behaviours and reflective practice needed to meet the requirements of the apprenticeship while maintaining high standards of safeguarding, child development and inclusive practice.

Why Total Training Provision?

At Total Training Provision, we believe education should empower people, strengthen organisations and change lives. Our work is driven by our values of Accountability, Excellence, Trust, Service, Gratitude, Innovation, and Collaboration, and these values shape how we support our learners — and our people.

You’ll join a supportive, ambitious organisation where quality matters, innovation is encouraged, and your expertise is genuinely valued. We invest in our staff, trust you to do your job well, and give you the autonomy to make a real difference every day.

If you’re passionate about leadership development and want to work somewhere that combines high standards with a strong people‑first culture, this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and facilitate teaching and learning, following the agreed learning journey and pathway, resulting in new knowledge, skills and behaviours.
• Support and deliver, where required, English, Maths and ICT functional skills at level 2 throughout the learner’s journey.
• Complete the required number of visits and reviews for each apprentice, meeting all stakeholders’ requirements for quality and funding.
• Engage the learner’s line manager to provide support and guidance to the apprentice throughout their journey.
• Coach learners to collect the required evidence during training sessions, ensuring progression and to achieve necessary milestones in preparation for EPA or framework completion.
• Monitor and review learners’ welfare regularly, taking any necessary action to reduce early leavers from the programme and maintain agreed caseload levels.
• Carry out enrichment activities with learners around Prevent, Safeguarding and British Values.
• Manage and complete administration duties within the given timescales, ensuring all paperwork deadlines are achieved.
• Ensure knowledge of all subject areas for both standards and frameworks is kept constantly updated by way of self‑development (CPD) and standardisation events.
• Research the industry regularly to keep abreast of market developments and trends, including competitors’ practices and delivery activities.
• Evaluate and modify training delivery as a result of learner satisfaction and key stakeholder feedback, audits or observations of teaching, learning and assessment.
• Monitor health and safety and learner accidents within the apprentice’s workplaces.
• Provide effective CEIAG service to both internal and external clients and customers.
• Promote Total Training Provision at every opportunity with funding bodies, learners, placements, careers, schools and any other applicable external body.
• Any other duties as requested by management.

Equal Opportunities & Safer Recruitment

At Total Training Provision, our values of Accountability, Excellence, Trust, Service, Gratitude, Innovation and Collaboration underpin our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

We are dedicated to providing a fair, inclusive, and supportive working environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect and has the opportunity to succeed. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and make all recruitment, selection and progression decisions based on merit, skills, experience and potential.

Total Training Provision is committed to safer recruitment practices. This role involves working with children, young people and vulnerable adults and is therefore subject to a full enhanced DBS check, which must be clear and will be carried out as part of the recruitment and onboarding process. Employment is conditional upon satisfactory checks and references.

We actively promote a culture where safeguarding, equality and professional conduct are everyone’s responsibility.

Safeguarding & Inclusion

Total Training Provision is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. An enhanced DBS check will be required. We are proud to be an inclusive employer, committed to creating a workplace where everyone is treated with dignity, respect and fairness.

Total Rewards

• Total Leave – All staff benefit from 25 days annual leave plus an extra Christmas shopping day, an extra birthday day and 8 Bank Holidays = Total 35 days.
• 2 Years’ Service – Staff who have passed 2 years’ service receive an additional 2 days leave.
• 5 Years’ Service – Staff who have passed 5 years’ service receive an additional 2 days leave.
• 10 Years’ Service – Staff who have passed 10 years’ service receive an additional 2 days leave.
• Work Anniversary – Vouchers for colleagues who reach a work anniversary, £10 for every year reached.
• Total Health – Staff will have access to the Westfield Health Plan once they have successfully passed probation and Health Assured from Day 1.
• Early Friday Finish – On the 2nd Friday of every month, staff benefit from a 3 pm finish.
• Bright Exchange – Extra discounts and offers through Bright.
• Dress Down Fridays – Every Friday, staff do not need to wear formal work clothes.
• Buy & Sell – Buy up to 5 days annual leave and sell up to 3.

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