Barcelona City Council | Capital humà

The babysitter offer babysitting services for children from other families, attending to their basic needs as well as their physical, cognitive and emotional development.

• Provide child care services for children, who need the attention and care of an adult in the absence of their parents.
• Attend to the children, watching out for their personal hygiene and safety and encouraging their hygienic habits.
• Control the eating habits of the children they are caring for:
  Plan the menus, in accordance with a diet that is balanced and recommended by specialists.
  Is responsible for providing food in those cases where the parents so require it.
  Prepare meals when agreed, in accordance with the scheduled menus and planned dietary criteria.
  Help the children who need assistance with eating food and stimulate their independence.
• Carry out playful and educational tasks with the children.
  Share personal feelings or experiences related to the activities and experiences of the day.
  Attend to each child in a personalised manner (through the playing of lap games, looking at a mobile phone, reading a story, helping them do a puzzle, talking, etc).
• Use several techniques to facilitate learning.
  Give clear guidelines and use terms that are appropriate for children.
  Organise simple and complex tasks for the children.
  Actively participate in manual activities.
  Tell stories.
  Try to expand the children's vocabulary.
• Pay attention to the learning and growing processes of the children:
  Recognise the children when they are speaking and listen to their ideas, using physical gestures or verbal responses.
  Attend to a child when they are crying.
• Assist in the process of the child's socialisation.
  Promote contact among a small group of children.
  Participate in different activities organised by the various children's entities.
  

Regulated training and graduates

• Certificat de Professionalitat de la Família Serveis Socioculturals i a la comunitat: Dinamització d'activitats de temps lliure educatiu infantil i juvenil (Nivell 2)
• Minimum compulsory education

Complementary training

Concern for order and quality: Level 4

Initiative: Level 2

Empathy: Level 2

Self-control: Level 1

Flexibility and change management: Level 2

Customer orientation: Level 1

Planning and organisation: Level 1

Training

People who work in the field of training are interested in transmitting knowledge, responsibilities and values through learning techniques and educational processes, with a view to helping others develop their skills and abilities. Activities that are specific to this field include prior assessment of the student's characteristics and needs, design of the teaching materials, as well as monitoring and support during the learning process.

Social community worker

Individuals related to the social/community field have an interest in working to improve people's social well-being and quality of life, as well as enhance their integration into their social, family and/or work environment. The professional activities that are common in this field include providing special support and aid to people at risk of social exclusion, designing programmes and implementing resources for the social and cultural stimulation of an area, and acting as mediators for conflict resolution in family, social or interpersonal environments. These activities involve constant interaction with people in order to improve their psychological and social well-being.

Children's instructor

Dining and leisure monitor

Play centre supervisor

Facilitator of extra-curricular services

Spray plasterer

• Work hours

  Highly diverse, although the normal working day is full-time. Flexible schedule adaptable to the needs of the user families. One can also work part-time, on weekends or in the afternoon/evening.

• Salary

  Salary range: between 13.379 and 17.011 euros annum gross. Median: 15.086 euros annum gross.
  
  Source: Report "Observatory of Jobs and Salaries of the Labour Market. Barcelona Activa", elaborated by ICSA Grupo. April 2015.

• Human resources and equipment

  Enough space to be able to care for the children.

• Initial investments