CAREERS

Playworkers can practice at a number of different levels and can follow different paths - everything from part-time temporary work to full time permanent posts developing or managing play settings.

We work together with Skillsactive, the sector skills council, to ensure that playworkers have the skills and knowledge to do their job well and make sure that they have access to career pathways.

Imagine career possibilities as a climbing frame ...

You can climb up to higher levels in the same type of work.  As you climb up, the work will involve more responsibility and perhaps supervision of other workers. If you climb sideways you move into different areas of work within the children's workforce.

With this climbing frame the rungs that help in moving around are training and qualifications.

A career as a playworker? brochure

Playwork Wales has produced a bilingual booklet for jobseekers, students, employers and careers guidance services, that explains playwork, playwork training and education, and potential careers pathways.

Written in plain language and illustrated with photographs of children and playworkers around Wales, we hope this will be a useful and productive resource.

To purchase copies of this brochure please use this order form