A team central to the structuring of the sector

Our department was created following the 2014 law on professional training that organized certifications into skill blocks. Previously, IPERIA had a global service combining training and certification. This evolution of the sector required us to undertake our own structuring.

Initially, we were two regional representatives for certification, and very quickly, we had to expand and territorialize positions to meet the need to support all training organizations.

We designed all elements forming the implementation of assessments (examination subjects, assessment rubrics, and guides for accredited training organizations). We had to create more than 4,000 questionnaires and assessment subjects, and we also had to provide support to accredited training organizations in their new role as assessment bodies.

Since 2009, we have offered three professional qualifications: "Dependency personal carer," "Childcare provider/childminder," and "Family assistant." In 2016, we were able to create specializations around disability, leading in 2021 to five complementary certifications, making up the first steps of a professional pathway. To submit these requires work studying the professions and the needs of employees and employers and formalizing the frameworks.

Our mission is to create and provide expertise on professions and professional certifications for the professional branch of individual employment and domestic work.

For several years, we have focused our efforts on developing certification management and supporting our partners in its implementation to professionalize domestic employees working for individual employers. Today, another challenge emerges: contributing to recognition by increasing the professions’ and the branch’s visibility. To this end, a new Certification and Skills Project Officer position has been created to support, across territories, all our networks in understanding our professions and professional certifications specific to the individual employment and domestic work sector.

We also have a Certification management Officer. Currently, two certifications are being developed: this requires monitoring and rigor in the submission work to France Compétences. It's a cross-cutting mission.

Our service also handles Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). IPERIA is among the key actors in the reform, driving an agile and individual process for each person.

Certification management is one of the essential links in structuring sector professionalization. We work in concert with the UDD: when we create a certification, it must be transformed into a training framework. Therefore, we work jointly across territories, in pairs, to support the network.

We have projects to submit new certifications, particularly the "Housekeeper” qualification, level 2, which enables entry into the sector and recognition of initial expected skills. We also have a certificate under review with France Compétences around home coordination.

Another project is developing RPL across territories following the reform, for all our employees. Everyone can benefit from it. The reform has opened RPL access to new audiences: carers and job seekers. It's a real opportunity for us to welcome new people into our sector.

We also wish to engage in more enhancement actions across regions to promote our professions and explain our certifications, contributing to our sector's attractiveness.

We are recruiting apprenticeship supervisors and assessment writers. This profession exists nowhere else and allows participation in a major project that is innovative for the sector and attractive. It's an opportunity to join a dynamic team invested in enhancing sector professions.