Opportunities to join the teamSee below for our current opportunities and more information on how to be involved in building Wolves Play Cafe.
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Early Years Play Leader
- Self-employed contract at £16.50 hour with increase from April 2023
- 2 days across initial 12 weeks with scope to extend with mutual agreement
To be part of Wolves Play Cafe Team, planning and delivering varied high-quality play experiences and projects for young children and their caregivers across the city. You will help lead the Explorer team and contribute ideas to evolve the organisation. You will be committed to helping us achieve our organisational aims.
- Come along to a play date soon to talk to us
- Email us at info@wolvesplaycafe.org to arrange a chat
- Download more information about the role in the application pack here and return to info@wolvesplaycafe.org or talk to us about alternative accessible application formats
Applications open Monday 9th January 2023 and close midnight Sunday 19th February 2023.
Play Explorer
- Self-employed contract at £16.50 hour with increase from April 2023
- 1 day a week across initial 12 weeks with scope to extend with mutual agreement
To be part of Wolves Play Cafe Team, supporting and delivering varied play sessions and projects for young children and their caregivers across the
city, primarily in the Warstones area. You will be committed to helping us achieve our organisational aims.
Applications open Monday 9th January 2023 and close midnight Sunday 19th February 2023.
city, primarily in the Warstones area. You will be committed to helping us achieve our organisational aims.
- Come along to a play date soon to talk to us and find out more
- Email us at info@wolvesplaycafe.org to arrange a chat
- Download more information about the role in the application pack here and return to info@wolvesplaycafe.org or talk to us about alternative accessible application formats
Applications open Monday 9th January 2023 and close midnight Sunday 19th February 2023.
Play Champion
- Self-employed contract at £16.50 hour with increase from April 2023
- 3 hours a week across initial 12 weeks with scope to extend with mutual agreement
To be part of the Wolves Play Cafe Team, supporting varied play projects for young children and their caregivers across the city through social media management, website updates and marketing approaches to focus on implementing our recent Marketing Strategy for 2023. You will be committed to helping us achieve our organisational aims.
Applications open Monday 9th January 2023 and close midnight Sunday 19th February 2023.
- Come along to a play date soon to talk to us and find out more
- Email us at info@wolvesplaycafe.org to arrange a chat
- Download more information about the role in the application pack here and return to info@wolvesplaycafe.org or talk to us about alternative accessible application formats
Applications open Monday 9th January 2023 and close midnight Sunday 19th February 2023.
Play Empowerer - Advisory Board Member
(Voluntary Opportunity)
- Voluntary role across initial 16 week period, extended past with mutual agreement
- 1 hour meetings every 2 months in-person or online with other Board Directors and approx. 3-6 hours of work arising from these
To be part of the Wolves Play Cafe Team, gifting your time, passion, knowledge, experience and skills to help the Board of Directors develop ideas and strategies to maintain and develop the profile, impact and future of the organisation. We are particularly interested if you have passion, experience or knowledge in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) approaches and sustainable practices for our world.
Applications open Monday 9th January 2023 and close midnight Sunday 19th February 2023.
- Come along to a play date soon to talk to us and find out more
- Email us at info@wolvesplaycafe.org to arrange a chat
- Download more information about the role in the application pack here and return to info@wolvesplaycafe.org or talk to us about alternative accessible application formats
Applications open Monday 9th January 2023 and close midnight Sunday 19th February 2023.
Play Tester Team (voluntary opportunity)
Currently open for applications!
Then we'd love you to join our Play Tester Team. This is a voluntary opportunity but test play products and places at test play sessions will be provided free of charge.
What's involved?
We understand life has to be flexible with little ones! Any play tester requests will be given with at least 7 days notice and aim to work around your schedules with accessible feedback methods.
What can I gain?
How can I join?
- Do you enjoy exploring play in lots of ways?
- Are you a parent or caregiver of under 7s who can offer your and your little ones' time to help road-test and feed back on play products, play sessions and ideas to help improve the organisation?
Then we'd love you to join our Play Tester Team. This is a voluntary opportunity but test play products and places at test play sessions will be provided free of charge.
What's involved?
- Opportunities to input into play products and sessions for early years, particularly under 5s, across the city
- Opportunities to feed into Play Tester Forums when new projects, sessions or products are being developed
We understand life has to be flexible with little ones! Any play tester requests will be given with at least 7 days notice and aim to work around your schedules with accessible feedback methods.
What can I gain?
- Be part of building a playful, friendly Wolverhampton focused organisation supporting young children and caregivers in our city
- Gain an insight into a growing Community Interest Company dedicated to quality Early Years play opportunities across our city
- Meet other parents and caregivers
How can I join?
- There is opportunity to join the Play Tester Team yearly.
- When there is an opportunity for you to input we contact you via your preferred communication method.
- We understand things change, and little ones grow up fast! So if you want to be removed at any point this can be actioned easily
- We will also review the list every 12 months to ensure we are maintaining a diverse Play Tester Team!
- There is no minimum or maximum commitment to how many Play Tester Projects you can be part of within a 12 month period
A bit more about Wolves Play Cafe
Wolves Play Cafe was founded in 2018 by mum and daughter Helen and Lisa with a passion for play and Wolverhampton!
We're now lucky to be supported by a team of playful people, you can meet them here.
Our mission is to help create a safe, supportive and fun city for children of Wolverhampton to grow up in.
Our aims are to:
Get a feel for our journey so far and some of the projects we've worked on.
We're now lucky to be supported by a team of playful people, you can meet them here.
Our mission is to help create a safe, supportive and fun city for children of Wolverhampton to grow up in.
Our aims are to:
- To initiate varied, open-ended and carefully scaffolded play opportunities to support development and independence of young children in our city.
- To create a caring and cohesive community in our hometown - helping reduce feelings of isolation of caregivers of young children by providing safe, friendly, welcoming and diverse opportunities to enable valuable stories to be shared.
- To empower caregivers of young children to support their knowledge of children’s development which can create lifelong impacts for little ones’ lives in our city.
Get a feel for our journey so far and some of the projects we've worked on.