Foster Care Specialist

1 month ago

Middlewich, Cheshire East, United Kingdom Cheshire West and Chester Council Full time
Job Title: Specialist Foster Carer

Cheshire West and Chester Council is seeking skilled and experienced foster carers to join our Specialist Foster Carer scheme. The scheme aims to provide a family environment that can meet the needs of young people who require additional support.

About the Role

The Specialist Foster Carer will work as part of a wraparound professional support team, comprising a social worker, teacher, therapist, and family support worker. The role involves providing a stable and nurturing environment for young people with complex backgrounds.

Key Responsibilities
  • Successfully complete a foster carer assessment and approval by Cheshire West and Chester Council
  • Be available on a full-time basis to care for the young person placed
  • Have room to support a child or adolescent in your home
  • Be able to offer a home to a solo child
  • Be willing to provide a durable relationship and offer stability
  • Like and relate to young people with complex and troubled backgrounds
  • Be committed to providing life-enhancing opportunities and life skills to the child or adolescent
  • Live in the Cheshire West and Chester area or close by
  • Be able to demonstrate a caring attitude that is child-centered and relational
  • Be able to offer unconditional positive regard and encouragement to a young person, even while challenging unacceptable behavior if needed
  • Support when a young person is not engaging in/attending education, training, and employment
  • Be a car driver, with a vehicle suitable to be used for fostering activities
  • Be able to fulfill successful DBS check
  • Be able to complete mandatory training requirements
  • Be able to support children and young people with family contact
Personal Characteristics

Characteristics beneficial to the role include:

  • Patience
  • Child-centered
  • Therapeutic
  • Emotionally resilient
  • Physically resilient
  • Persistent
  • Active
  • Flexible
  • Interested
  • Positive
  • Resilient family/networks
  • Robust
  • Empathetic
  • Good communicator
Key Experience

You will be expected to:

  • Demonstrate experience of working with children and adolescents with complex backgrounds
  • Understand the impact of trauma, attachment, and neglect on children and adolescents
  • Engage as part of the wider professional team involved in the scheme to create child-centered care and support
  • Uphold professional fostering standards, including high-quality recording and reporting
  • Understand child development and effects on life experience
  • Work therapeutically with children and adolescents in line with 'our way of working' model
Support

You will receive support from the Fostering Team, including:

  • Regular Supervision
  • Carers will be afforded a standard skills and training package as well as a suite of training tailored to their needs. This aims to support carer professional development and to address the need of any young person they have in their care
  • Regular liaison, joint working, and support from the wider scheme team, including a teacher, therapist, family support worker, and social worker
  • Assessments of each young person's support needs and development of support plans

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