Family Support Worker
Job title: Family Support Worker
Place of work: Garnant Family Centre
Dimensions of the job
Working with other members of the project staff, volunteers, workers from other agencies, and family centre users. The family support play worker will, as part of the family centre team, plan, organise, support and develop activities for pre-school children and their families in accordance with the framework for practice. To assist with monitoring and evaluation of the family centre service.
Main purpose of the job:
- To provide a safe, stimulating environment for children.
- To assist with planning and delivery of organised play activities for children and their families.
- To assist with monitoring and evaluation of the family centre service.
- To provide outreach into the community, making contact with isolated families and provide ways in which these families can be brought into and be involved in the family centre.
Key tasks of job
- To provide a warm and safe environment for children and their families.
- To provide children’s activities that will enhance their lives socially, intellectually, emotionally and physically.
- To provide activities to enable support to families relating to various issues
- To work alongside centre volunteers.
- To provide outreach to isolated families in the community and devise ways of encouraging families to attend the family centre.
- To be responsible for the planning of programmes, in liaison with the Coordinator.
- To take care of the play equipment and ensure that it complies with Health and Safety regulations.
- In conjunction with the co-ordinator, to be responsible for Health and Safety matters within group activities, whilst inside/outside the centre.
- To ensure that the centre can provide the following working conditions: An attractive, warm and well-equipped playroom; An area to have craft activities; A toilet and kitchen area that can be used.
Qualifications and experience
- Relevant qualification in childcare, NVQ/QCF Level 3 (or equivalent) and experience of working with children and families.
- A basic knowledge of First Aid and a Food Hygiene Certificate will be desirable or a willingness to attend a course.
- The ability to speak Welsh will be an advantage for this post.
Hours: 16.5 hours a week
Salary: £10,802 per annum (actual salary)
Must be available; Wednesday-Friday
Contract: Fixed-term contract until 30.6.26
For an application pack, please email.
Subject to DBS checks and references
Closing date: 17.12.25
The St Davids Diocesan Council for Social Responsibility is a registered charity (244178) and its remit is to identify areas of social need and take action to meet the need. The Council works with all people irrespective of race, religion, creed, gender and age who are experiencing social deprivation across the Diocese of St Davids which covers the three counties of Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, and Pembrokeshire.
Plant Dewi is the Diocese of St Davids very own project supporting families in their communities. It sits within the charity of the St Davids Council for Social Responsibility (charity number 244178), building on a heritage of over 60 years of social action in the Diocese.
At Plant Dewi, our vision is a future where all families in West Wales reach their full potential, live in thriving communities and raise happy, confident children.
Our mission is to provide inclusive community-based support and meaningful opportunities where families are empowered to grow stronger together and supported to build brighter futures for their children – because every family matters.
