POD-CACHE

S3E11 - CACHE Subject Specialist, Stacy Mann, talks to Liam Pinches about his childcare and Early Years career journey

00:00 What's Coming Up?00:47 Webinar invite from SDN for all Early Years settings02:55 Introducing Liam Pinches06:13 The Importance of Early Years08:15 Men In Childcare14:30 Inspiring Others Into The Sector22:15 Liam's Closing MessageCACHE Subject Specialist, Stacy Mann, talks to Liam Pinches about his childcare career journey.  Liam talks about his experiences, the importance of Years Education and about inspiring other men to consider early years and childcare as a career. As always, you can find more from CACHE Alumni, including free e-learning, videos and articles, at www.cachealumni.org.uk 

S3E10 - POD-CACHE - Joe tells Stacy about his childcare journey

00:00 What's Coming Up?00:35 Joe Groom08:13 Men In Childcare10:20 Supporting Entry Into The Sector13:58 Joe's Advice18:20 The Impact of Qualifications22:16 Closing
Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
 
Joe Groom is a Nursery Manager who is passionate about encouraging more people into Early Years.  In this discussion with Stacy Mann, CACHE Subject Specialist, Joe talks about the challenges, rewards and impact of working in childcare.  Joe and Stacy specifically address the differences in working in childcare for male practitioners and reflect on ways that the sector could be more inclusive. 
Joe and Stacy also touch on career progression and talk about the impact of qualifications, with Joe giving advice to anyone who'd like to explore their options in the childcare and Early Years sector.
 
As always, you can find free professional development in the form of articles, videos and events on the CACHE Alumni website at www.cachealumni.org.uk, where you'll also find our free CPD log, our revolutionary careers development tool - Skillzminer and our member benefits scheme, CACHE-Back.

S3E09 - Dawn learns about Childminding and Early Years Education for the future with Sam Surry from PACEY

00:00 What's Coming Up? 00:39 Introducing Sam Surry 02:56 Childminding 06:50 Challenges In The Sector 26:22 Skillzminer 26:54 Early Years 29:16 PACEY 29:54 CACHE Alumni 31:40 CPD 35:39 Roles Within The Sector 37:21 Closing Thoughts 40:28 Learn More About PACEY 42:37 CACHE Alumni You can find PACEY, the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years at pacey.org.uk and on social media. The PACEY Team have also provided some useful links and information to support the episode here; Covid spotlight – www.pacey.org.uk/coronavirus PACEY Facebook page - www.facebook.com/PACEYlocal Parent area – www.pacey.org.uk/parents CPD PACEY offers – https://eysmart.pacey.org.uk/ Business Support – www.pacey.org.uk/business PACEY membership – www.pacey.org.uk/join Not A Babysitter campaign – www.pacey.org.uk/NAB As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and join for free to access best practice information, articles, videos and e-learning across care, health and early years education. 

S3E08 - Life As A Final Year Student Teacher - POD-CACHE catches up with Jake Forecast

00:00 What's Coming Up?
00:34 Introducing Jake Forecast
05:26 Teaching Throughout A Pandemic
11:30 What Needs To Change?
20:47 CACHE Alumni
21:07 What It's Like Being A Student Teacher
25:01 Observation and Reflection
29:12 Being A Male In The Sector
42:01 Follow Jake's Journey
43:51 CACHE Alumni
 
Last time we caught up with Jake, he was an early years practitioner embarking on a career in primary teaching. Now in his final year (during a pandemic!) we found out what life's been like as a student teacher and reflect on what Jake's learned about children, teaching and himself.
If you'd like to hear more from Jake, you can find him on LinkedIn and as @J_Forecast28 on Twitter; https://twitter.com/j_forecast28?lang=en
As always, you can find a huge store of articles, videos and free e-learning online at www.cachealumni.org.uk, supporting your whole career in care, health and education.

S3E07 - Apprenticeships, nurseries and nannies - Fay Gibbin talks POD-CACHE through finding your way in Early Years Education

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
Fay is the co-founder of Avail Learning Academy and an experienced training and development consultant.  An experienced nursery practitioner and manager, Fay believes that high quality, accessible training can make a real difference to the care delivered to those who need it the most.
Formerly CEO of an 'Outstanding' rated, multi- award winning training provider, Fay was chair of the trailblazer group to develop the Early Years Educator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard.
You can find Fay on LinkedIn as Fay Gibbin and Avail Learning Academy at their website. 
Dawn can be found on LinkedIn and Twitter. 
And, as always, you can find free professional development in the form of articles, videos and events at CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk, where you'll also find our free CPD log, our revolutionary careers development tool - Skillzminer and our member benefits scheme, CACHE-Back.
Find us on Twitter and Instagram as @CACHEAlumni. 

S3E06 - POD-CACHE goes to WellFEst - Louise Mercieca and Apprenticeship Learners talk wellbeing

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by Dawn Constance Mulvaney - Editor of www.CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education.
In this special episode of POD-CACHE, recorded as part of the WellFEst event in December 2020, Louise Mercieca and apprentices from across West Yorkshire, talk about their strategies for managing physical and mental wellbeing during lockdown. 
Louise Mercieca is an award-winning Nutritional Therapist, Author and Presenter with her own food channel for Early Years nutrition, which you can more about here; https://www.earlyyearsfood.tv/. She’s passionate about formative nutrition and also works with adults on preventative nutrition. You can find out more about Louise and her way of working by reading her introductory article for CACHE Alumni here; https://www.cachealumni.org.uk/article/the-impact-of-food-louise-mercieca/
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram as @CACHEAlumni

S3E05 - POD-CACHE goes to WellFEst - Victoria Bartle and Stephen Mordue talk mindfulness in practice

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by Dawn Constance Mulvaney - Editor of www.CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education.
In this special episode of POD-CACHE, recorded as part of the WellFEst event in December 2020, Victoria Bartle and Stephen Mordue talk strategies for health, wellbeing and mental fitness during difficult times. 
 
Victoria Bartle is an expert by experience. A blogger and advocate, Victoria lives with multiple health conditions and receives support from friends, family and paid assistants. Her blog on CACHEAlumni.org.uk is a great way to gain insight into the views of a service user and consider care from different perspectives and is written with the insight Victoria has gained in her time working as an advisor and team manager in welfare to work. You can find out more about Victoria, her experiences and her other qualifications in her introductory post
Stephen Mordue is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Sunderland. As well as teaching about Adult Care on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes he is Practice Learning Coordinator and Programme Leader for the Best Interests Assessment in Practice Programme. He was a social work practitioner and manager for 12 years working mainly with older people and their families. His areas of special interest are effective communication, working with people with dementia, the Mental Capacity Act, and self care and productivity for professionals. You can read more about wellbeing in his book, available here; https://www.criticalpublishing.com/how-to-thrive-in-professional-practice or by visiting Stephen’s blog for self care www.selfcareshorts.com and social care socialworkshorts.co.uk
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram as @CACHEAlumni
 
 

S3E04 - Getting down to business - POD-CACHE talks profit, business and self development with Lucy Lewin

Lucy is passionate about delivering first class, flexible childcare in her own nursery setting but identified a gap in her own development when her nursery business took off. Instead of running away, Lucy developed her skills to support her business.
Lucy talks about how focusing on her 'weakness' allowed her to grow and led to the founding of The Profitable Nursery Academy, where she helps single-site nursery owners to create an efficient, effective and profitable nursery business!
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram as @CACHEAlumni

S3E03 - Self-regulation - POD-CACHE talks prison education and reform with David Breakspear

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
David is a Prison reform campaigner, with a successful TEDx talk under his belt.  He's also a volunteer enterprise advisor and a Director at Starting Step. David happens to be an expert by experience, having spent more than 15 years in prison and is passionate about making change that can stop the cycle and break the chain of offending. 
David believes that education makes the impossible, possible and it was an absolute pleasure to talk self-regulation, education and early intervention with him for this week's episode of POD-CACHE!
You can find David on LinkedIn as David Breakspear and on his website and blog. 
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram as @CACHEAlumni

S3E02 - Soothing, Listening and Understanding - Stacy Mann discusses how self-regulation can help parents, practitioners and other grown-ups

Hi and welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable CPD and best practice podcast from CACHE, presented by CACHEAlumni.org.uk, the award-winning professional membership network available free for those working in Care, Health and Education. 
Stacy is CACHE's Subject Specialist for Early Years and Childcare and has a keen interest in wellbeing, with over 16 years in the Early Years sector and training and experience as a Relax kids and Charge Up coach. 
Dawn and Stacy talk about the importance of self-regulation and emotional intelligence, some of the pitfalls in the implementation of self-regulation as a measurement and the ways that we can embed self-regulation not only for children, but for ourselves. 
As always, you can find CACHE Alumni at www.cachealumni.org.uk and find us on Twitter and Instagram as @CACHEAlumni