Family Support Worker

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. 

Find out more about Action for Children here: Action for Children and on LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.

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 10^th August 2026

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

For more information about our Family Support Practitioner role, please review our full job description by clicking here.

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Scott Jones at [email protected] quoting reference 13343 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.

Useful Documents:

• Action for Children employee benefits
• AfC Commitment Statement

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Teitl swydd: Ymarferydd Cymorth i Deuluoedd

Cyflog: £26,006.84 y flwyddyn (£16,869 pro-rata)

Lleoliad: Sir Gaerfyrddin

Contract/Oriau: Parhaol, Rhan-Amser – 24 awr yr wythnos

Buddion:

• 29 diwrnod o wyliau blynyddol ynghyd â gwyliau banc ac opsiynau i brynu neu werthu absenoldeb
• Pecynnau mamolaeth, mabwysiadu a thadolaeth hyblyg.
• Pensiwn opsiynol, gyda hyd at 7% o gyfraniad y cyflogwr yn cynnwys yswiriant bwyd
• Porth disgownt staff a chymhwysedd Cerdyn Golau Glas gyda disgowntiau gan 15,000 o werthwyr cenedlaethol
• Rydym yn gyflogwr achrededig Cyflog Byw Go Iawn 

Rydym yn un o'r elusennau plant mwyaf yn y DU ac rydym wedi bod yn gwneud gwahaniaeth i fywydau plant bregus y DU ers dros 150 o flynyddoedd. 

Dysgwch fwy am Weithredu dros Blant yma: Gweithredu dros Blant ac ar X, LinkedIn, Facebook neu YouTube i ddod i'n hadnabod yn well.

Ynglŷn â'r Gwasanaeth

Mae Rhianta Teuluoedd Sir Gaerfyrddin yn darparu amrywiaeth o raglenni rhianta ledled Sir Gaerfyrddin sy'n rhoi offer, sgiliau a gwybodaeth ymarferol i rieni i gefnogi plant 0-19 oed. Mae ein gwasanaethau'n cynnwys grwpiau wyneb yn wyneb, sesiynau ar-lein a chymorth un-i-un mewn cartrefi teuluoedd. 

Ynglŷn â'r rôl

Fel Ymarferydd Cymorth i Deuluoedd, byddwch yn chwarae rhan hanfodol wrth gyflwyno rhaglenni rhianta a gweithdai lles emosiynol i deuluoedd. 

Byddwch yn gweithio'n glos â rhieni, gofalwyr a phlant i ddarparu cefnogaeth wedi'i theilwra sy'n meithrin perthnasoedd cadarnhaol ac yn cryfhau deinameg teuluol. 

Sut byddwch yn helpu i greu dyfodol mwy disglair

• Cyflwyno rhaglenni rhianta sy'n seiliedig ar dystiolaeth fel y Pos Rhianta, Rhaglen Feithrin Cysylltiadau Teuluol a Siarad â Phobl Ifanc
• Darparu cefnogaeth un-i-un i deuluoedd yn eu cartrefi ac mewn lleoliadau cymunedol
• Hwyluso gweithdai fel Teimlo'r Wefr i helpu plant a rhieni i reoli emosiynau a straen
• Gweithio ochr yn ochr â Therapyddion Chwarae a Seicotherapyddion Celf i gefnogi plant ag anghenion cymhleth
• Mynychu a chymryd rhan mewn cyfarfodydd aml-asiantaeth perthnasol, gan ddarparu rôl arweiniol gan sicrhau adolygiad ymarfer myfyriol a dadansoddol

Gadewch i ni siarad amdanoch chi

• Profiad o fewn cymorth teuluol, gwaith cymdeithasol neu allgymorth cymunedol
• Gwybodaeth am ddatblygiad plant, strategaethau rhianta a lles emosiynol
• Profiad o ddatblygu perthnasoedd effeithiol â phlant, pobl ifanc, teuluoedd, cydweithwyr, sefydliadau cymunedol, asiantaethau partner ac asiantaethau allanol eraill
• Y gallu i weithio'n hyblyg ar draws gwahanol leoliadau a llwyfannau (wyneb yn wyneb ac ar-lein)
• Profiad o goladu a chynhyrchu adroddiadau, cipio a datblygu'r wybodaeth berthnasol ar gyfer canlyniad a ddymunir
• Trwydded yrru'r DU gyda mynediad at drafnidiaeth, at ddibenion teithio ar draws Sir Gaerfyrddin (dymunol)

Da i wybod

Sylwer na allwn gynnig nawdd ar gyfer y rôl hon.

I gael rhagor o wybodaeth am y rôl, adolygwch ein disgrifiad swydd llawn drwy glicio yma.

Os bydd angen cymorth arnoch gyda'ch cais am unrhyw reswm, cysylltwch â Scott Jones yn[email protected] gan ddyfynnu’r cyfeirnod 13343 a byddwn yn hapus i roi unrhyw gymorth sydd ei angen arnoch chi.

Amrywiaeth, cydraddoldeb a chynhwysiant

Yn Gweithredu dros Blant, rydym yn ymroddedig i feithrin gweithle amrywiol, cynhwysol a dilys. Rydym yn annog ceisiadau’n frwd gan ymgeiswyr Du, Asiaidd ac o Ethnigrwydd Lleiafrifol, ac ymgeiswyr anabl, am nad ydynt wedi eu cynrychioli’n ddigonol yn Gweithredu dros Blant. Rydym am gymryd camau pwrpasol a bwriadol i sicrhau cyfleoedd cyfartal i bob grŵp mewn cymdeithas ac i Gweithredu dros Blant.

Mae staff gwrywaidd yn cael eu tangynrychioli o fewn ein rolau Gwasanaeth Plant. Hoffem annog mwy o ymgeiswyr gwrywaidd ar gyfer ein rolau Gwasanaeth Plant.

Dogfennau Defnyddiol:

• Buddion Gweithwyr Gweithredu dros Blant
• Datganiad Ymrwymiad GdB