Qualifications improve your chances; they do not gate the job. Level 2 is the most recognised.
Typical pay: £20,000 to £24,000Level 2 most recognisedOpen entry
Pay range: National Careers Service.
Your route in
You can start without qualifications - direct entry/volunteering; a qualification improves your chances
1
Qualifications employers recognise (Level 2)
Any of these strengthens your application.
- Level 2 Diploma in Playwork L22 courses
2
Add-on certificates
Complements to the main route. Where no level is shown, the awarding body does not specify one.
- Supporting Children and Families 1 course
3
Where this can take you
With experience and training, you could: work as a playwork development officer for a local authority, become a playwork scheme supervisor, senior playworker or manager, move into a school as a teaching assistant and become self employed and set up an after school club or childcare project.
- Level 3 Certificate in Understanding Autism L349 courses
- BTEC National Extended Certificate in Children's Play, Learning and Development L319 courses
- Level 3 Diploma in Playwork L35 courses
- Level 3 Diploma in Playwork (NVQ) L31 course
Courses for this career
Level 2
- Level 2 Diploma in Playwork L22 courses
Level 3
- Level 3 Diploma in Playwork L35 courses
- Level 3 Diploma in Playwork (NVQ) L31 course