Wild Young Parents Project

Vacancy at Wild Young Parents Project

WILD Worker Children's team

Salary £ 24,416

East Cornwall

Vacancy listed 10/10/2023

Application deadline 27/10/2023

Details

WILD Worker - Children’s team

East Cornwall: Bodmin, Launceston, Liskeard

Salary: £24,416 FTE (£12.69 per hour)

16 hours per week across Mon – Weds

Own transport is essential as travel between locations is necessary

WILD are the largest specialist young parents' charity in the UK, working with over 14,000 parents and children since 1992, providing a whole family service for young mums, dads and their children across Cornwall. We deliver services, collaborate with local leaders and practitioners and work towards influencing national policy to disrupt the pattern of intergenerational trauma and change the narrative of young parents and their children.

Our vision: We want a fair start for young parent families.

Babies of young parents often experience complex disadvantage with higher risk of developmental delay, early childhood trauma, abuse and harm, infant mortality and illness. This can repeat the patterns of their parents’ own childhood experiences.

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 who will

You will need to have the skills and experience to:

Work within our 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
Help plan and deliver a range of stimulating and developmentally appropriate activities
Mentalise the feelings of others
Work with children and families who may have experienced trauma and adversity
Support and nurture the infant-parent relationship
Provide attachment led care

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 bring boundless energy and positivity.

Your responsibilities

Support our children’s Leads to deliver exciting and creative play opportunities.
Create a stimulating, child led environment
Model positive and responsive relationships
Prepare and deliver healthy snack
Support children with personal care needs such as nappy changing, feeding etc
To assess and manage risk
Use WILD systems to record, monitor and share work
To follow safeguarding procedure and practice
Step into the role of lead worker in their absence

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

Sick pay

Paid mileage

Pension contribution

Family friendly working

Bespoke wellbeing packages

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

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.

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