Wild Worker

**WILD Worker - Children’s focus**

**West Cornwall: St Austell, Falmouth and Camborne**

**Salary: £22,104 FTE (£11.48 per hour)**

**14 hours per week across Monday, Tuesday and Thursday**

**Own transport is essential as travel between the venues is necessary**

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 repeats the patterns of their parents’ own childhood experiences.

We 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.

We want all young parents and their babies to have the right to belong and thrive, to be heard and helped and to have the best possible start to family life.

WILD thrives on the values of equality, integrity, kindness, resourcefulness and respect.

**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
- Work in variety of environments as this role includes working outdoors in our allotment
- 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
- Hold a level 2 or above in a relevant children's work qualification

**Your approach**:
You will be a trauma-informed 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 children’s 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
- Adhere to relevant risk assessments
- Assist with the completion of relevant paperwork
- Step into the role of lead worker in their absence

**Benefits**:
Generous holiday allowance,

Additional leave days for key life events and long service increments

Varied and progressive opportunities within a learning focused organisation

Sick pay

Pension contribution

Family friendly working

Bespoke wellbeing packages

Paid mileage and travel time

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £11.48 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Cornwall: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Children's work: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: One location