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CAP - Agent de propreté et d'hygiène

Certification authority:

Ministry of Education

EQF Level of the qualification:

Country:

France

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Core competences

Professional techniques of routine maintenance.

Professional restoration techniques.

Professional biocleaning techniques.

How can the certification be obtained?

Initial training scheme (pupil or student)

Apprenticeship

Continuous training scheme

Individual application

Validation of prior learning

Description of the procedure for the validation of prior learning

Any person, regardless of age, nationality, status or level of training, with at least one year's experience as a salaried employee, self-employed or volunteer may undertake a validation of prior learning procedure (called VAE = Vallidation of the Acquis from Experience).

Contact a consulting centre for validation of prior experience (Pôle emploi, Mission locale, CIDFF...):
- to assess your professional project and make sure that validation of prior learning is adapted to your situation.
- to inquire if some support is available.
Contact the certifying organisation of your region.
Request admissibility to the validation of prior experience.
Fill the validation file (Candidates can be supported in describing the activities and characterising the knowledge, skills and competences used) to match the certification competency framework.
The jury evaluates the file.
Interview with the jury (around 1 hour).

Documents needed

Eligibility file

If the eligibility is confirmed, in a Validation File, the candidate explains the knowledge, skills and competences, with reference to the certification, that he has acquired through experience. In this file the candidates needs to include:

the description of the activities performed
the documents giving an account of this experience and the duration of the various activities (Evidence of the reality of your professional practice
if applicable, the certificates corresponding to the training courses followed and the diplomas obtained previously.

Depending on your previous status:

Employed: payslips, employer certificates, experience certificate.
Independant worker: fiscal declaration, certificate of existence...
Volunteer: certificate signed by the organisation, volunteer contract.

A declaration of honour certifying that you apply for only one certification for the current calendar year.

Sample of Validation file.

Note that there is simplified process for refugees who cannot produce supporting documents.

Contact point

For preliminary information: contact a consulting centre for validation of prior experience
To assess the eligibility and start the validation: Certifying organisation of your region.

Duration:

Average: 1/2 day of work per week during 4 to 6 months

Cost:

None

Is it possible to obtain a partial validation?:

Yes ✅

What is the result of the partial validation?

Certificate listing the competences already acquired

List of skills, competencies and knowledge that will be subject to a complementary assessment necessary to obtain the certification

Then, is it possible to participate to a shorter training course to prepare the full qualification?:

Yes ✅

Description of the procedure to participate to a training course

The partial validation is definitively acquired.

In case of partial validation you may also benefit from specific supportæ to set up additional training or experience programmes. Your adviser will inform you about the modalities and financing possibilities of this additional step.

Contact point

Consulting centre for validation of prior experience in your region.