Cymraeg

Careers

What careers are available for BA Early Years Education graduates?

The degree programme is designed to develop a highly skilled workforce for the early years education and childcare sector.

Graduates from the programme have gone on to a range of professions. Trinity BA EYE graduates are now working as:

Nursery Managers
Project workers with children's organisations
Childcare Project Managers
Childminding Co-ordinators
Playwork Co-ordinators
Out-of-school Project Leaders
Family Support Workers
Hospital Play Workers
Community Project Workers and Leaders
Nursery Officers
Speech and Language Therapy assistants
Residential Care Workers
Sure Start Co-ordinators

Others have gone on to postgraduate training and are now employed as:

Teachers
Midwives
Nurses
Social workers
Education administrators

Some students want to further their own skills and knowledge by following postgradaute study at Certificate, Diploma, Masters or PhD level.

Useful links and prospective employers or placements:

Charities: http://www.jobsincharities.co.uk/
Government e.g. http://new.wales.gov.uk/about/departments/dcells/?lang=en
Hospital Play Staff Education Trust: http://www.hpset.org.uk/
Housing Associations: http://www.clickhousingassociations.co.uk/
Local Authorities: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/
Mudiad Ysgolion Meithrin: http://www.mym.co.uk/
National Association of Hospital Play Staff: http://www.nahps.org.uk/
National Childminding Association of England and Wales: http://www.ncma.org.uk/
National Children's Bureau: http://www.ncb.org.uk/
National Day Nurseries Association: http://www.ndna.org.uk/
Play Wales: http://www.playwales.org.uk/
Children in Wales / Plant yng Nghymru: http://www.childreninwales.org.uk/areasofwork/earlyyears.html
Sure Start: http://www.surestart.gov.uk/
SNAP Cymru: http://www.snapcymru.org/

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