WILD worker -Children's team (West) 12 hrs
Salary £ 23,825 to £26,339
West Cornwall
Vacancy listed 17/03/2025
Application deadline 28/03/2025
Details
WILD Worker - Children’s  Focus 
 
West Cornwall  
 
Salary: £23,825 to £26,339 FTE (£12.89 to £13.69 per hour)  
 
12 hours per week across Tue, Weds, Thurs  
 
Own transport is essential as travel between locations is necessary  
  
WILD Young Parents Project is a small charity on a big mission; to create a fair start for the babies of young parents  

Young parent families have a tough start, experiencing health, social and economic inequalities.  This is not fair, and we want to change it.    

Set up by young parents over 30 years ago, we are now the biggest voice for young parent families in the UK.   

Our vision: We want a fair start for the babies of young parents 
  
Our mission is that: 
   
We will work together with young parent families - to grow love and resilience, to tell their stories, and to build a society that cares about their future.  
  
We are looking for a skilled early years practitioner with a keen interest in the outdoors who will  
  
You will need to have the skills and experience to  
 
  • Work within our west area children’s team to create positive and supportive environments where our young parent families will thrive  
  • Build positive relationships with parents and their children and have the confidence to share, and model best practice  
  • Deliver a range of stimulating and developmentally appropriate activities that support our WILD babies and children giving them the chance to thrive 
  • Develop and grow our work with babies and children in our exciting new allotment space 
  • Mentalise the feelings of others 
  • Identify and work alongside families who may need addition support 
  • Work with children and families who may have experienced trauma and adversity  
  • Support and nurture the infant-parent relationship  
  • Provide trauma informed and attachment led care  
  • Work with the area team to support dynamic work with families   
  
  
Your approach  
  
You will be a trauma responsive early years’ practitioner, who is committed to equity of opportunity, and to learning how to achieve the best possible start in life for babies and their young parent families.  
  
You will have a child led and nurturing approach that focuses on the holistic needs of children.  
  
You will work collaboratively within our team, putting families at the heart of your practice.  
  
You will be passionate about creating a more positive future for our youngest, most vulnerable children.  
 
You will have love of the outdoors, encouraging and empowering our families to use our developing garden space. 
  
You will bring boundless energy and positivity.  
  
Your responsibilities
 
  • To amplifying the voice of babies and children in our families team and with our partner agencies  
  • Work with the wider team to plan and deliver exciting, holistic, trauma informed, opportunities in which babies and children can thrive     
  • Create stimulating, child led environments  
  • Model positive and responsive relationships  
  • Work within the wider WILD team to share, inspire and create  
  • To assess and manage risk  
  • Use WILD systems to record, monitor and share work  
  • To follow safeguarding procedure and practice  
  
Benefits
 
  • Generous holiday allowance,  
  • Additional leave for key life events and long service increments  
  • Varied and progressive opportunities within a learning focused organisation  
  • Teams based organisational structure  
  • Enhanced Sick pay  
  • Paid mileage  
  • Pension contribution  
  • Family friendly working  
  • Bespoke wellbeing packages  
 
Closing date for application 28th March 2025
Interviews will be held on 11th April 2025 in Redruth.

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

This vacancy has now been closed