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As a playworker, you’ll use your support skills to inspire children and young people, creating spaces and opportunities for beneficial play. Find out how to get a job as a playworker, how your career might progress, and what you might be working on day to day.
In this career you could choose to focus on building a career in play work or using it as a stepping-stone to related roles in childcare or education.
You’ll typically start as an assistant or supervised playworker. With experience you might move up to senior playworker, supervisor or management roles. You might do extra training to become specialise as a developmental or therapeutic playworker, or get a teaching role in a nursery or school.
As an experienced childcare professional, you could decide to set up your own after-school club, playgroup or nursery.
Continued professional development (CPD) is important when working with children as you’ll need to stay up to date with changes in practice. Your employers might provide training on things like first aid, target setting and special educational needs (SEN).
You’ll need to do training in child protection and safeguarding, which can be through your workplace or children’s charities like the NSPCC.
External training or short courses in child psychology or therapy techniques might help you access more advanced roles.
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