Working at Little Village

At Little Village, we believe every child deserves the best possible start in life. We are a warm and compassionate community that provides vital support to families with young children through our network of baby banks. Working here means becoming part of a team that’s as uplifting as it is purposeful, united by a shared commitment to kindness, collaboration, and making a difference.

Why join Little Village?

Working at Little Village isn’t just a job: it’s an opportunity to transform lives, starting with the littlest ones in our families and their parents. From a supportive team culture to meaningful work that leaves a lasting impact, we offer a workplace that values your well-being, as much as the families we serve.

Current Vacancies

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Learn more about our benefits

At Little Village, we strongly believe in ensuring our staff feel valued and supported. As a part of this, we offer a range of benefits, family-friendly practices and initiatives to help our staff thrive in their role, and to make Little Village a better place to work.

Pay

All our salaries are paid at or above the London Living Wage. We participate in salary surveys and carry out benchmarking exercises against external organisations of a similar size to ensure that our salaries are competitive and that our employees are fairly compensated for their work.

Company Pension Scheme

If eligible to join the pension scheme, we match your contributions by 3%.

Training & Development

All staff receive relevant and role-specific training and we encourage staff to seek out development opportunities which interest them.

Sick Pay

All staff are entitled to a period of sick leave at full pay regardless of length of service.

Death in Service

Everyone employed by Little Village is entitled to Death in Service benefit. It entitles the staff member’s next of kin to 3 times their salary in the event of their death while employed at Little Village.

Annual Flu Jab

Little Village will reimburse staff for the cost of a flu jab annually.

Eye Tests

We will reimburse staff for the cost of an eye test, and contribute towards the cost of glasses or contact lenses for computer work if required.

Employee Assistance Programme

We provide an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with a 24-hour help line that offers confidential, short-term counselling and a follow up service to help you with personal and work-related problems. The service is free of charge, completely confidential and available to both staff and their family members.

Flexible Working

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and term-time working patterns. We’re always open to discussing flexibility to support employees in balancing their professional responsibilities with family and other commitments outside of work.

Annual Leave

Staff are entitled to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rated for those who work less than 35 hours per week). We usually give the team time off between Christmas and New Year, which doesn’t come off your allowance.

Discounts & Rewards

All staff have access to Rewards Gateway, which offers discount vouchers with a number of retailers, health, mindfulness, fitness and financial planning resources. We’re also registered with Tickets for Good, who offer free and discounted tickets to live sports, theatre and music events.

Menopause Support

We run a support group open to all staff to discuss menopause, share experiences and tips.

Enhanced Family-Forming Policies

We offer enhanced family friendly policies including Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave and Adoption pay. Our Fertility Policy is designed to support employees during fertility investigations and treatment. We are also accredited with the Empowered Foundations programme, with all of our line managers trained to support employees in their reproductive health journey.

What do our employees say?

The culture at Little Village is like nothing I have experienced before. Everyone is so passionate about helping others whether that be families in need or colleagues, it is truly unique and makes LV such a wonderful company.

– Team member

Want to find out more?

Our friendly recruitment team is here to support you if you have any questions or if you require any reasonable adjustments for your application. You can get in touch with them by emailing recruitment@littlevillagehq.org.

Diversity, equality and inclusion

Little Village operates in London, one of the most diverse cities in the world. We are working towards a goal where our team fully reflects that diversity and difference in lived experiences and strongly encourage applications from under-represented groups including: people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people with lived experience of poverty either personally or through family, experience of the care system, non-graduates and first-in-family graduates. As part of our commitment to fairer recruitment, all applications will be assessed without names and any protected characteristics.

We want Little Village to be a place where our individual differences and contributions are truly recognised and valued. We want to support people with disabilities and are fully committed to make any reasonable adjustments so that everyone can apply to our roles. We are serious about working with the right candidate to make our roles work for them. To read our Equal Opportunities Policy please see here.

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