Au pair jobs in Finland
Au pairs live and work for a host family in another country and are usually in charge of taking care of the family's children. They are young individuals, seeking to explore another culture while providing child care services as well as other light housekeeping activities such as cleaning, gardening and shopping.
Au pair – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 15.12 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 12.15 €/h |
| Top tenth | 17.37 €/h |
| Employees | 48,802 |
Pay by sex, 2024
| Sex | Median | Employees |
|---|---|---|
| Women | 15.15 €/h | 45,845 |
| Men | 14.69 €/h | 2,957 |
Au pair - Which skills are essential?
The importance of a clean, sanitary workspace for example through use of hand disinfectant and sanitizer, in order to minimise infection risk between colleagues or when working with children.
Help children with school tasks. Assist the child with the interpretation of the assignment and the solutions. Make sure the child studies for tests and exams.
Provide people with amusement by doing or offering a performance, like a show, a play or an artistic performance.
Make filled and open sandwiches, paninis and kebabs.
Ensure proper handling, storage and disposal of cleaning chemicals in accordance with regulations.
Promote and respect human rights and diversity in light of the physical, psychological, spiritual and social needs of autonomous individuals, taking into account their opinions, beliefs and values, and the international and national codes of ethics, as well as the ethical implications of healthcare provision, ensuring their right to privacy and honouring for the confidentiality of healthcare information.
Encourage and facilitate the development of children's natural curiosity and social and language abilities through creative and social activities such as storytelling, imaginative play, songs, drawing, and games.
Engage in activities for enjoyment, tailored to children of a certain age. Be creative and improvise to amuse children with activities such as tinkering, sports or board games.
Use verbal and non-verbal communication and communicate through writing, electronic means, or drawing. Adapt your communication to children and young people`s age, needs, characteristics, abilities, preferences, and culture.
Provide founded feedback through both criticism and praise in a respectful, clear, and consistent manner. Highlight achievements as well as mistakes and set up methods of formative assessment to evaluate work.
Tend to children by feeding them, dressing them, and, if necessary, regularly changing their diapers in a sanitary manner.
Inform children`s parents of the activities planned, program`s expectations and children`s individual progress.
Keep the children under supervision for a certain period of time, ensuring their safety at all times.
Au pair - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Promote the prevention, early detection, and management of children`s problems, focusing on developmental delays and disorders, behavioural problems, functional disabilities, social stresses, mental disorders including depression, and anxiety disorders.
Cleanse, irrigate, probe, debride, pack and dress wounds.
Administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation or first aid in order to provide help to a sick or injured person until they receive more complete medical treatment.
The procedures required to take care of children up to the age of 1, such as feeding, bathing, soothing, and diapering the baby.
Make sure that pets are given appropriate food and water on time.
Evaluate the different aspects of development needs of children and young people.
Be able to drive vehicles; have the approapriate type of driving license according to the type of motor vehicle used.
Master foreign languages to be able to communicate in one or more foreign languages.
Help children and young people to assess their social, emotional and identity needs and to develop a positive self image, enhance their self esteem and improve their self reliance.
Apply food preparation techniques including the selecting, washing, cooling, peeling, marinating, preparing of dressings and cutting of ingredients.
The specific methods and practices used in providing care to people with physical, intellectual and learning disabilities.
Press and iron in order to shape or flatten textiles giving them their final finishing appearance. Iron by hand or with steam pressers.
Dispose waste in accordance with legislation, thereby respecting environmental and company responsibilities.
Disinfect surfaces in accordance with sanitary standards.
Purchase ingredients, products and tools that are necessary for daily housekeeping activities.
The symptoms, characteristics, and treatment of diseases and disorders that often affect children, such as the measles, chickenpox, asthma, the mumps, and head lice.
Clean rooms by cleaning glasswork and windows, polishing furniture, vacuuming carpets, scrubing hard floors, and removing garbage.
Use gardening equipment such as clippers, sprayers, mowers, chainsaws, complying to health and safety regulations.
Provide an environment that supports and values children and helps them to manage their own feelings and relationships with others.
Present to others examples of your experience, skills, and competences that are appropriate to specific learning content to help students in their learning.
Get ready for serving snacks and sandwiches or heat up ready-made bar products if requested.
Apply cooking techniques including grilling, frying, boiling, braising, poaching, baking or roasting.