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Our goal is to connect good people with good food. We advertise sustainable food jobs and training opportunities to help jobseekers and employers find each other.

Roots to Work is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.

Child & Youth Lead Officer

St Werburghs City Farm
St Werburghs City Farm, Bristol

Posted: 1 Jun 2026

Deadline: 22 Jun 2026

Compensation: £26,197 per year (pro rata)

Paid Part-time Permanent

Job description

Child and Youth Lead officer

28 Hours a week (Monday-Thursday) Salary: £26,197 pro rata

We are looking for someone who wants to be part of a team that makes a positive and lasting difference to young people’s lives.

• You will support the project manager to plan, resource and deliver our child and youth programme.
• You will lead our W2L programme on Mondays and Tuesdays during term time – supporting young people to learn about animal care and other activities.
• You will support other 1-1 and group sessions for young people with support needs.
• You will run short courses (forest school sessions/one off visits for schools/community groups at our Boiling Wells nature reserve site.
• You will support our youth club on Tuesday evenings.
• You will help plan and deliver holiday activities - including taking the lead on organising and delivering our summer day camp.
• You will help monitor and evaluate young people’s progress.

Your skill set and experience

Essential

• Experience working with young people in an outdoor setting.
• Experience in managing the different personalities of young people, including those with complex needs.
• A desire to learn about working with animals.
• Good communicator with the ability to work consistently, collaboratively and respectfully with a diverse team and develop good relationships.
• Ability to support and inspire children and young people.
• An understanding of how to plan session effectively.
• Ability to give clear feedback on sessions.
• Ability to work within organisational policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of safeguarding practices when working with young people.

Desirable

• Experience of working with animals.
• Forest School Level 3 certificate.

Your approach

• Collaborative, positive, confident and honest.
• Reflective of your work and a willingness to learn new skills.
• Able to work without being supervised.
• Calm and boundaried when confronted with challenging behaviour.
• Commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.

Please download the full job description here: https://swcityfarm.co.uk/work-with-us/

Application information

Review the full job description and complete the application form and return this to office@swcityfarm.co.uk by 10am on Monday 22nd June.

We expect interviews to be held on Monday 29th June.

Audio applications are acceptable for the Reason for Applying questions. Other sections must be completed in text (training, experience, references etc).

Job description is available on our website, here: https://swcityfarm.co.uk/work-with-us/

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