Role as an Early Years Practitioner
Unit 5 Assignment
E1
It is important that a practitioner works professionally in their job and understands their responsibility and as they are working with a range of people they need to know how to maintain a good and professional relationship and this generally means they need to be able to talk about the appropriate things to that specific person and should understand their boundaries. A practitioner will work with parents/carers, children, colleagues, students and multi-disciplinary teams such as speech therapists and each of these relationships will have different approaches. A practitioner working with the parents/carers of a child needs to discuss with parents the child’s progress and of any problems they may have identified, the practitioner will encourage the parents to have an active involvement with their child and this means by doing things in their home to help improve their child and to encourage them to do more and boost their self-esteem. Both the parents/carers and practitioner should understand there are boundaries within their relationships and remaining professional is essential, these boundaries are ensuring all information is kept confidential and this means they can’t disclose any other information about other children as this is against the rules put into place by the setting. Relationships should generally remain within the setting and shouldn’t be a social thing as this encourages information to be discussed which shouldn’t be. It is important that the parents/carers understand that the welfare of the child is paramount and they should understand why the children are attending school/nursery and this is for their development.
As well as relationships with parents/carers the practitioner will form a professional relationship with different multi-disciplinary teams such as speech therapist, linking to this all colleagues will have professional relationships with these as this information will need to be passed on to all as they need to
E1
It is important that a practitioner works professionally in their job and understands their responsibility and as they are working with a range of people they need to know how to maintain a good and professional relationship and this generally means they need to be able to talk about the appropriate things to that specific person and should understand their boundaries. A practitioner will work with parents/carers, children, colleagues, students and multi-disciplinary teams such as speech therapists and each of these relationships will have different approaches. A practitioner working with the parents/carers of a child needs to discuss with parents the child’s progress and of any problems they may have identified, the practitioner will encourage the parents to have an active involvement with their child and this means by doing things in their home to help improve their child and to encourage them to do more and boost their self-esteem. Both the parents/carers and practitioner should understand there are boundaries within their relationships and remaining professional is essential, these boundaries are ensuring all information is kept confidential and this means they can’t disclose any other information about other children as this is against the rules put into place by the setting. Relationships should generally remain within the setting and shouldn’t be a social thing as this encourages information to be discussed which shouldn’t be. It is important that the parents/carers understand that the welfare of the child is paramount and they should understand why the children are attending school/nursery and this is for their development.
As well as relationships with parents/carers the practitioner will form a professional relationship with different multi-disciplinary teams such as speech therapist, linking to this all colleagues will have professional relationships with these as this information will need to be passed on to all as they need to