Experienced Pre-Teen Parenting Worker Location: Future Roots, Rylands Farm, Holnest, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 5PS Contract Type: Fixed Term (4 years) Hours: 25 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am - 2pm (flexibility & some weekend availability is required) Salary: £24,000-£26,000 Join our team at Rural Remedies Nurture Through Nature! We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated parenting worker to join our team at Future Roots, a 30-acre farm dedicated to promoting the well-being of children aged 8-13 and their families. In this role, you will provide essential support to families in rural settings, helping them navigate challenges and access resources to enhance their children’s development. The program will involve some Saturday parenting sessions and the development of a peer support group. For further information, please email [email protected] or call 01963 210703. Further Information About Us Future Roots is a social enterprise that is based on a small care farm, approx 30 acres, near Sherborne. We started in 2006 as Farming for Life and registered our enterprise in 2008 as Future Roots. We’ve now been supporting young people for over a decade and hope to continue for many years to come. Future Roots was the vision of our founder, Julie Plumley. Julie’s a Dorset farmer’s daughter, but went on to have a long career in social work. Future Roots combines the best of both worlds. Why we are called Future Roots, it is all in a name. The name ‘Future Roots’ originated as we want the people who need us to feel that their ‘Future’ prospects are better because of what we offer. This might be happiness and wellbeing or improved resilience giving the ability to cope with a personal situation. It might be about gaining qualifications and having better job prospects. Each of the above leads to hope that their ‘Future’ will be better than they had previously thought and a belief they can achieve. ‘Roots’ came from knowing that everyone needs ‘Roots’ to provide the key nutrients to strengthen and grow. ‘Roots’ are also a stretchable anchor, being a safe and secure place to return that will ground you when you feel lost. Our aim is to provide stability and direction through any tough times for young people and their families. Future Roots, provides a safe space, support and mentoring, qualifications eg functional skills in English and Maths, land-based qualifications, as well as therapeutic opportunities for young people up to 19 to develop confidence, resilience and skills to give hope which will improve their mental health and future prospects to live a healthy and positive life using a countryside and farm environment with access to experienced mentors.