NCFE
Level 5
QN: 610/4163/4
Curriculum Active
NCFE CACHE Level 5 Diploma for the Early Years Senior Practitioner
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by NCFE. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 936 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 5
Awarding Body
NCFE
Syllabus Units
18 Units
Guided Hours
936 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Champion equality, diversity and inclusion
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand diversity, equality and inclusion in own area of responsibility
- Be able to champion diversity, equality and inclusion
- Understand how to develop systems and processes that promote diversity, equality and inclusion
- Be able to manage the risks presented when balancing individual rights and professional duty of care
2
Develop and implement policies and procedures to support the safeguarding of children
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the impact of current legislation that underpins safeguarding and child protection
- Be able to support the review of policies and procedures for safeguarding and child protection
- Be able to implement policies and procedures for safeguarding and protecting children
- Be able to lead practice in supporting children’s wellbeing and resilience in the context of safeguarding
3
Develop health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in early years settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the current legislative frame
- work and organisational health, safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices that are relevant to early years settings
- Be able to implement and monitor compliance with health, safety and risk management requirements in early years settings
- Be able to lead the implementation of policies, procedures and practices to manage risk to individuals and others in early years settings
- Be able to promote a culture where needs and risks are balanced with health and safety practice in early years settings
- Be able to improve health, safety and risk management policies, procedures and practices in early years settings
- Be able to track health concerns in own setting
4
Develop, maintain and use records and reports
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the legal and organisational requirements for recording information and providing reports
- Be able to prepare professional records and reports that meet legal requirements and agreed ways of working
- Be able to use records and reports to inform judgements and decisions
5
Developing children’s emergent literacy skills
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the language and communication needs of children
- Be able to support children’s language and communication needs
- Understand strategies which support emergent literacy
- Be able to use strategies to plan and lead activities which support emergent literacy
- Be able to review how planned activities support emergent literacy
- Be able to work with parents/carers in a way which encourages them to take an active role in their child’s play, learning and development
6
Developing children’s emergent mathematical skills
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how mathematics relates to children’s everyday lives
- Understand how working with others supports children’s emergent mathematical development
- Understand how to create an environment which supports children’s emergent mathematical development
- Understand the role of the early years senior practitioner in relation to supporting children’s emergent mathematical development
- Understand how opportunities support children’s emergent mathematical development
- Be able to implement activities to support children’s emergent mathematical development
- Be able to review how planned activities support children’s emergent mathematical development
- Be able to work with parents/carers in a way which encourages them to take an active role in their child’s play, learning and development
7
Lead activities, experiences and educational opportunities to promote children’s speech, language and communication
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the developmental needs of babies and children in relation to speech, language and communication
- Be able to promote communication and language needs in babies and young children
- Be able to provide support for the speech, language and communication development of the children in own setting
8
Lead and manage a team within an early years setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the features of effective team performance within an early years setting
- Be able to support a positive culture within the team for an early years setting
- Be able to support a shared vision within the team
- Be able to develop a plan with team members to meet agreed objectives
- Be able to support individual team members to work towards agreed objectives
- Be able to manage team performance in an early years setting
9
Lead children’s early education and development
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to lead and manage planning cycles for holistic development in the early years
- Develop strategies for enabling approaches to early literacy and mathematics through curiosity, exploration and discovery
- Be able to use assessment within the early education curriculum
- Be able to apply and lead current theoretical and philosophical approaches to practice
10
Lead practice in promoting wellbeing and resilience in children
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how different approaches to promoting positive wellbeing and resilience in children impact on practice
- Be able to lead practice in supporting children’s wellbeing and resilience
- Be able to lead practice in work with colleagues, parents/carers and others who are supporting children
- Be able to work in partnership with the key person, colleagues, parents/carers and other professionals
- Be able to lead the development of practice with children to promote their wellbeing and resilience
11
Manage care routines for children
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand care needs of children
- Be able to use hygienic practice to minimise the spread of infection
- Be able to manage care routines in an early years setting
- Understand childhood immunisation
- Be able to support children in personal care routines
12
Model positive behaviour in the early years
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand theoretical influence on our understanding of children’s behaviour in the early years
- Be able to apply policy and strategy for behaviour in own setting
- Be able to evaluate policy and procedures for behaviour in the early years
13
Promote professional development
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand principles of professional development
- Be able to prioritise goals and targets for own professional development
- Be able to prepare a professional development plan
- Be able to improve performance through reflective practice
14
Quality provision in early years settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to manage early years provision in line with statutory requirements
- Be able to lead environments within the work setting that support and extend children’s development and learning in their early years
- Understand how to work in partnership with parents/carers
15
Review own knowledge of learning and development for early years practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to meet the requirements of the areas of learning and development in the relevant EYFS statutory frame
- Be able to plan work with children and support children’s participation in planning
- Be able to promote children’s learning and development according to the requirements of the relevant EYFS statutory frame
- Be able to engage with children in activities and experiences that support their learning and development
- Be able to review own practice in supporting the learning and development of children in their early years
16
Supporting children with special educational needs and disability in an early years setting
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand statutory requirements and national guidance for inclusive practice in early years settings
- Understand provision related to children’s additional needs
- Understand the role and responsibilities of the SENCo in early years settings
- Understand factors which may affect families caring for children with SEND
- Be able to reflect on own setting’s policies and procedures to support children with SEND
17
Understand holistic child development from birth to seven years
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the pattern of development that would normally be expected for children from birth to seven years
- Understand the factors that impact on children’s development
- Understand the benefits of early intervention to support the development of children
- Understand the potential effects of transitions and significant events on children’s development
- Understand how assessing, monitoring and recording the development of children informs the use of interventions
18
Work in partnership in early years settings
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand partnership working
- Be able to establish, lead and maintain working relationships with colleagues
- Be able to establish and maintain working relationships with other professionals
- Be able to work in partnership with others
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/4163/4
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- NCFE
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Sept 2024