DEAP - Diplôme d'Etat d'auxilliaire de puériculture (State diploma for childcare assistants) (Training starts in September 2025)

Acquire the qualification to develop the following professional skills:

• Accompanying and caring for the child in activities of daily living and social life by identifying frailties
• Assessing the child's clinical condition and implementing appropriate care in collaboration with the nurse by integrating quality and risk prevention
• Informing and accompanying families, professionals and learners
• Assuring the upkeep of the child's immediate environment and materials related to care activities, the place and situations of intervention
• Transmitting, whatever the means and methods of communication, the observations made in order to maintain continuity of care and activities

As a health professional, the childcare assistant is authorised to provide early-learning and educational activities and to carry out hygiene and comfort care in order to preserve and restore continuity of life, the child's well-being and autonomy, within the framework of the nurse's own role and the specific acts defined as a priority for the nursery nurse, in collaboration and as part of a shared responsibility.

Three missions reflecting the specific nature of the profession are thus defined:

1. Accompany the child in activities of daily and social living;

2. Collaborate in the personalised care project within his/her field of expertise;

3. Contribute to risk prevention and interprofessional clinical reasoning.

BC01 - Accompanying and caring for the child in the activities of daily and social life

- Accompanying the child in the essential acts of daily and social life, personalising this accompaniment on the basis of an assessment of the child's personal and contextual situation and making any necessary readjustments.

- Develop and implement early-learning, leisure, educational and social support activities adapted to the child or group.

- Identify risk situations when accompanying the child and his/her entourage, implement appropriate preventive actions and evaluate them.

BC02 - Assessment of clinical condition and implementation of adapted care in collaboration

- Assess the clinical condition of a person at any age of life in order to adapt his/her care.

- Implement care adapted to the clinical condition of the child.

- Accompany the person in settling in and moving around by mobilising their resources and using preventive mobilisation techniques.

BC03 - Informing and supporting people and those around them, professionals and learners

- Establishing appropriate communication to inform and support the person and those around them.

- Informing and training peers, trainees and other professionals.

BC04 - Maintenance of the person's immediate environment and materials related to activities, taking into account the place and situations of intervention

- Use appropriate techniques for the maintenance of premises and equipment, taking into account the prevention of associated risks.

- Identify and deal with anomalies and malfunctions in connection with the maintenance of premises and equipment related to care activities.

BC05 - Multi-professional teamwork and processing of information related to care activities, quality/risk management

- Search for, process and transmit, whatever the communication tool and methods, relevant data to ensure the continuity and traceability of care and activities.

- Organise one's activity, cooperate within a multi-professional team and improve one's practice as part of a quality / risk management approach.

• Diploma from the Ministry of Health Level 4 (Baccalauréat, BP, BT)

Find out more about this qualification (RNCP40743, exact wording of the diploma, name of the certifier, registration date of the qualification) by clicking here.

• All audiences

- Be aged 17 on the date of entry to the course.

- No diploma requirement.

- Pass the eligibility test.

20 people

• Fully classroom-based training

• In-company on-the-job training
• Group lessons

• Equipped technical platforms

Interviews, remediation with the educational referent and/or company referent during the course.

For beneficiaries with disabilities: possible adaptation of training and certification methods, support by the GRETA-CFA TH referent.

Beneficiary satisfaction is taken into account during and at the end of the course. 

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EN-certified teachers, Bac +3 trainers with significant experience in adult education, professional speakers, nursery nurses

Tests at the end of the course (one-off assessment)

Possibility of validating one or more skill blocks

Download pre-registration file

Interview by appointment. 

Work as a childcare assistant in various public or private employer structures in the health, social or medico-social field, in an institution or in home hospitalisation (maternity unit, hospital service, early childhood care structure, crèche, day nursery, at home...).

Access for people with disabilities

Transport

bus: 83, 583:Stop: Corniche-Audedoud

bus: 54, 81, 14, 54: Stop: Lycée Colbert

bus: 54, 83b, 583: Stop: Place du quatre septembre

1st session of apprenticeship training, we do not have Quality indicators.