Care Farm Manager & SEND Lead

Reports to:     Head of Care Farms

Salary:             £34,258 per annum

Contract:        Permanent       

Hours:              37.5 hours per week   

Based at:         Lakeside Care Farm at Lower Moor Nature Reserve

Working with nature to make a positive difference to children and young people’s lives 

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is looking for an ambitious, collaborative and inspiring Manager to help lead, develop and shape our pioneering and expanding programme of Care Farms.

Working with the Head of Care Farms, this is a rare opportunity to lead our SEND provision at Lakeside Care Farm on Lower Moor Nature Reserve. As the only one of 46 Wildlife Trusts to have Care Farms, you’ll continue to build our innovative work as a leader in the field. 

Leading a talented and committed team, you will have considerable experience of working with children and young people with complex and diverse needs. You will provide day-to-day operational leadership of the Care Farm alongside the Manager & Site Lead, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of high quality nature-based provision. The role is responsible for developing, coordinating and leading person-centred programmes that support students’ learning, wellbeing, personal development and EHCP outcomes, whilst operating within agreed budgets and timescales.

You will line manage staff and volunteers, providing supervision, guidance and support to ensure the successful delivery of programmes and the maintenance of high standards of practice. You will oversee safeguarding, student wellbeing, progress monitoring, behaviour support and risk management, while fostering positive relationships with families, schools, referrers and partner agencies to ensure a coordinated, approach that enables children and young people to achieve positive outcomes and reach their full potential.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is fully committed to safeguarding the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. All WWT staff will receive safeguarding training and must ensure that they comply with WWT’s safeguarding policy.

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse organisation, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need talented people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side.  Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is an exemplary employer with high staff satisfaction and multiple benefits for employees. These benefits include: 

• Company pension & Salary exchange scheme -
• Group risk insurance – death in service and income protection
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 27 days annual leave increasing to 30 days in your fifth year of service plus public holidays
• Staff discount at Dragonfly Cafe
• Free tea and coffee
• On-site parking
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Two staff wellbeing days per annum

A full job description and application pack is available to download below.

Closing Date: 9.00 am Tuesday 18^th August 2026

PLEASE NOTE: if interest is significant, we reserve the option to close the vacancy early and conduct interviews on an as required basis. Should the vacancy remain open until the stated deadline then interviews will be held on Thursday 27^th August 2026.

Please submit your application to recruitment@wiltshirewildlife.org

Please note we are only able to accept applications via our application form and when completing the form please ensure you use the ‘supporting statement’ section to evidence how you believe you meet the essential and desirable criteria detailed in the Job Description. This information will be used in our short-listing process.

As a charity Wiltshire Wildlife Trust Ltd is committed to saving costs.  Therefore, if you have not received an invitation to attend an interview within one week of the closing date, you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful.