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Ocupacions

Child care worker

Latest available data: June 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Child care assistant Child care worker Day care assistant Day care worker Early childhood assistant Early childhood worker Nursery school assistant Nursery school worker Preschool teacher Preschool worker

Child care workers provide care for children when the parents or family members are unavailable. They look after the children's basic needs and help or supervise them during play. Child care workers can work for preschools, daycare centres, childcare agencies or individual families.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Assisting children to wash, dress and feed themselves;
(b) Taking children to and from school or outdoors for recreation;
(c) Playing games with children, or entertaining them by reading or storytelling;
(d) Assisting in the preparation of materials and equipment for children's education and recreational activities;
(e) Managing children's behaviour and guiding their social development;
(f) Disciplining children and recommending or initiating other measures to control behaviour, such as caring for own clothing and picking up toys and books;
(g) Observing and monitoring children's play activities;
(h) Keeping records on individual children, including daily observations and information about activities, meals served, and medications administered.

Knowledge

  • Child care and youth services
  • Community sanitation
  • Medicine
  • Care of the elderly and of disabled adults
  • Education science

Digital competencies

  • Caring for children
  • Providing medical, dental and nursing care
  • Preparing food and drinks
  • Working in teams
  • Monitoring and evaluating the performance of individuals

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Supporting others
  • Collaborating in teams and networks
  • Maintaining a positive attitude
  • Dealing with problems
  • Communicating

Professional groups of the occupation

Craft and related trades workers

Building and related trades workers (excluding electricians)

Building finishers and related trades workers

Plumbers and pipe fitters

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Plumbers and pipe fitters

5.829

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

24,93%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

2,10% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

28,74%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

59,99%

Part-time contracts

1,39% Turnover index

1.289

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-3%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Building and related trades workers (excluding electricians)

96%

4%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Building and related trades workers (excluding electricians)

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Building finishers and related trades workers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Plumbers and pipe fitters

No experience
22%
Less than 1 year
10%
Between 1 and 2 years
22%
Between 2 and 4 years
21%
Between 4 and 8 years
9%
More than 8 years
16%
Manufacturing
28%
Administrative and support service activities
19%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
16%
Construction
10%
Education
7%
Others
20%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.