Unit 1: Schools and Colleges as organisations
- The structure of education from early years to post-compulsory education
- How schools and colleges are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities
- Teamwork in schools and colleges
- Educational ethos, mission, aims and values
Unit 2: Support health and safety in a learning environment
- Plan and provide environments that support children and young people's health and safety
- Recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a learning environment or during off-site visits
- Support children and young people to assess and manage risk for themselves
- Appropriate responses to accidents, incidents, emergencies and illness in the learning environment and during off-site visits
- Own role is assisting in the administration of medication
Unit 3: Understand how to safeguard children and young people
- Legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
- How to work in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people
- The need to ensure children and young people's safety and protection in the learning environment
- How to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
- How to work with children and young people to support their well-being
Unit 4: Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults
- The principles of developing positive relationships with children, young people and adults
- Legislation, policies, and procedures for confidentiality and sharing information, including data protection
- Develop professional relationships with children and young people
- Communicate with children and young people
- Develop professional relationships with adults
- Support children and young people in developing relationships
- Support inclusion and inclusive practices in work with children and young people
Unit 5: Understand how children and young people develop
- The expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to 19 years
- The factors that influence children and young people's development and how these affect practice
- Monitor children and young people's development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern
Unit 6: Support positive behaviour in children and young people
- Policies and procedures for promoting children and young people's positive behaviour in a learning environment
- Promote positive behaviour
- Manage behaviour that challenges in a learning environment
Unit 7: Support children and young people during learning activities
- Contribute to learning activities
- Prepare for learning activities
- Support learning activities
- Observe and report on learner participation and progress
- Contribute to the evaluation of learning activities
Unit 8: Support English and Maths skills
- Identify learner needs for English and Maths support
- Provide English support to help learners access teaching and learning
- Provide Maths support to help learners access teaching and learning
Unit 9: Support the use of ICT in the learning environment
- Policy and procedures for the use of ICT for teaching and learning
- Prepare ICT resources for use in teaching and learning
- Support the use of ICT for teaching and learning
Unit 10: Support assessment of learning
- Purpose and characteristics of assessment for learning
- Use assessment strategies to promote learning
- Support learners in reviewing their learning strategies and achievements
- Contribute to reviewing assessment for learning
- Maintain learner records
Unit 11: Engage in personal and professional development
- What is required for competence in own work role
- Reflect on organisational practice
- Evaluate own performance
- Agree a personal development plan
- Use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development
