WILD Families Worker – Children's Team

Vacancy at Wild Young Parents

WILD Families Worker – Children's Team (12 hours)

Salary £ 25,878 to 26,339 pro rata per annum

East Cornwall – Covering Launceston, Liskeard, Bodmin

Details

WILD Young Parents is a small charity on a big mission; to create a fair start for young parents and their babies. 

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 are looking for a skilled early years practitioner to work within our East team

• Work within our East area children’s team to create positive and supportive environments where our babies and children 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
• Mentalise the feelings of others
• Identify and work alongside families who may need additional 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

• 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

• To amplify the voice of babies and children in our families team and with our partner agencies
• Work with a 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 and advocate for young parent families and to share their voice
• To assess and manage risk
• Use WILD systems to record, monitor and share work
• To follow safeguarding procedure and practice

• 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
• Pension contribution
• Family friendly working
• Bespoke wellbeing packages
• Supported reflective practice and external supervision

The closing date for this role is 12 noon on

For Submit your CV and a covering letter detailing how you meet the requirements of the role using this link. 

For queries about this role or the application process please contact Shana Price shana.price@wildproject.org.uk.

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.   

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

Pension contribution

Family friendly working

Bespoke wellbeing packages

Supported reflective practice and external supervision

Notes

The closing date for this role is 12 noon on Monday 2nd March 2026 and Interviews held on Monday 9th March 2026.

To apply
Submit your CV and a covering letter detailing how you meet the requirements of the role.

For queries about this role or the application process please contact Shana Price shana.price@wildproject.org.uk.

Attached documents

TitleFileWILD Families Worker - Children's team (12 hour) Role Description and Person Specification