The Parent Centre

Partnerships, and collaboration is how we see try transformation. Thank you Badisa TRIO for partnering with us and hosting training.

As we celebrate Africa Day, we recognise that Africa's strength is rooted not only in its nations and cultures, but also in the homes and families that shape everydag life across the continent.

To all our families we celebrate you today.

To our three runners running in the Cape Town Marathon to represent The Parent Centre tomorrow we wish you a great race.

Thank you for your support

Celebrating 43 years of empowering parents, strengthening families, and building resilient communities.

For more than four decades, The Parent Centre has walked alongside parents and caregivers through life’s challenges and milestones - providing support, guidance, counselling, training, and hope to families across our communities.

This milestone is only possible because of every parent, child, staff member, volunteer, donor, partner, and supporter who has been part of our journey. Thank you for believing in the power of positive parenting and stronger families.

Here’s to continuing to create brighter futures together for many more years to come.

CapeTown MakingADifference

We are currently looking for a highly dedicated and passionate Social Worker to help oversee our Adoption and Foster Care Pilot.

If you are interested please send your CV and covering letter to [email protected]

We are hiring two Parent Infant Attachment Counsellors to join our home visiting team.

See the details in the post. Interested persons must please send their CV together with a covering letter to [email protected]. By no later than 20 May 2026.

Whether it’s a corporate meeting, therapy, training, team building or anything in between, The Parent Centre offers the perfect setting to bring your vision to life.

Parent Infant Attachments Counsellor (two positions)
The Parent centre is a Non-Profit, primary preventative organisation offering comprehensive parenting counselling, education and support service based in Wynberg, Cape Town.
This employment opportunity is open to suitably qualified applicants with experience as a community worker or counsellor or Parent Infant counsellor who resides in Maitland to Milnerton, Khayelitsha, and Mitchells Plain.

Duties will include:
• Conduct community outreach and recruit clients through clinics and community-based organisations (CBOs).
• Facilitate weekly Pregnancy and Early Childhood Parenting talks at Midwife Obstetric Units (MOUs) or Community Health Centres.
• Build and maintain relationships with clinic staff and key stakeholders.
• Manage client referrals (self and clinic-based) and report to Supervisor.
• Submit a detailed report on each clinic talk, including topics and content covered.
• Conduct home visits and follow up on allocated cases.
• Submit weekly schedules, monthly statistics and reports as required.
• Ensure all required client signatures are recorded to confirm visits or attendance.
• Maintain accurate client records and attendance registers.
• Follow up promptly on cases allocated during weekly supervision sessions.

Essential qualifications and experience required:
• Grade 12 or higher.
• At least 1 to 2 years of accredited training in lay counselling.
• 3 - 5 years’ experience in community work or counselling.
• Valid Code 08 driver’s licence (advantageous).
• Fluent in English and/or Afrikaans/IsiXhosa.
• Parenting experience.

These posts need strong interpersonal and communication skills, as well as an ability to work sensitively with vulnerable families. This post needs someone who can work independently with good organisational and record-keeping skills. They need an ability to maintain professional boundaries and have strong community engagement and outreach skills.
We work with parents so it would be advantageous that you are a parent. This post needs good time management, self-discipline and an ability to work collaboratively and engage in supervision

Interested persons must please send their CV together with a covering letter to [email protected]. By no later than 20 May 2026.

For more information about The Parent Centre, refer to

The Parent Centre | Home Join our community of parents and experts in raising happy and healthy children. Discover our programs and services at The Parent Centre in South Africa.

Workers Day and the long weekend that goes with it is an opportunity to relax and spend time with family and friends. For the hardworking staff of The Parent Centre it was an opportunity to rest and for us to write a blog about our staff, their work, and the impact it has on our clients and ourselves. Please have a look:

They Show Up For Your Family, Every Single Day. - The Parent Centre A glimpse into the important work done by The Parent Centre Staff and its impact on them