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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