Infant and Early Years Practitioner Training Programme: CYP Psychological Trainings Infant and Early Years Practitioner (IEYP)
Course details:
Structure of the Course
- Key knowledge, theory, and frameworks for working with 0–5s
- A broad foundation of knowledge, across the full age range of 0–5 years, of the core principles of early child development, context, theory, and ethical frameworks.
- Foundations of early years assessment and formulation
- Focus on assessment, formulation, and safeguarding, with common content for all trainees, and selected specialist elements for trainees on the parent–infant pathway and the early childhood pathway.
- Interventions for 0–5s
- Split into pathways (choose one pathway)
- Parent- Infant Pathway – Video Feedback, leads to accreditation in Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) or Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting (VIPP)
- Early Childhood Pathway – Behavioural/Conduct Difficulties, using Social Learning Theory informed intervention
Service Requirements and Benefits
- Candidates can be existing staff within service, for which the service will receive costs equivalent
to mid-point band 6 (Agenda for Change) plus 25% on costs - Services should then backfill the existing post.
- Candidates can also be newly recruited staff, who should be employed for a minimum of two
years.
HEIs Contacts (for more information)
- Ruth Clayton – Manchester [email protected]
- Emily Durling – UCL [email protected] – course lead
[email protected] – workforce project manager - Ann Hockaday – Exeter [email protected]