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Job title: Family Support Practitioner

Salary: £26,006.84 per annum (£16,869 pro-rata)

Location: Carmarthenshire

Contract/Hours: Permanent, Part-time – 24 hours per week

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
• We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer

We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.

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About the Service

Carmarthenshire Families Parenting provides a range of parenting programmes across Carmarthenshire that equip parents with practical tools, skill and information to support children aged 0-19 years. Our services include face-to-face groups, online sessions and one-to-one support in family homes.

About the role

As a Family Support Practitioner, you’ll play a vital role in delivering parenting programmes and emotional well-being workshops to families face to face or via Microsoft Teams.

You’ll work closely with parent, carers and children to provide tailored support that fosters positive relationships and strengthens family dynamics.

How you’ll create brighter futures

• Delivering evidence-based parenting programmes such as The Parenting Puzzle, Parenting Plus Children’s Programme and Talking Teens
• Provide one-to-one support to families within their homes and in community settings
• Facilitate workshops such as Feeling the Fizz to help children and parents manage emotions and stress
• Work alongside Creative Therapist, Play Therapists and Art Psychotherapists to support children with complex needs
• Attending and participating at relevant multi agency meetings, providing a lead role ensuring reflective and analytical practice review

Let’s talk about you

• Experience within family support, social work or community outreach
• Knowledge of child development, parenting strategies and emotional well-being
• Experience of developing effective relationships with children, young people, families, colleagues, community organisations, partner agencies and other external agencies
• Ability to work flexibly across different locations and platforms (face-to-face and online)
• Experience of collating and producing reports, capturing and progressing the relevant information for a desired outcome
• UK driving license with access to transport, for the purposes of travelling across Carmarthenshire

Good to know

Interview to be held week commencing the 10th August 2026

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

For more information about our Family Support Worker role, please review our full job description by visiting our careers page!

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Scott Jones at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13429 and we'll be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

Pay: £26,006.84 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Sick pay

Work Location: In person