Foster Carer Specialist

5 days ago

Warrington, Warrington, United Kingdom Cheshire West and Chester Full time
Cheshire West and Chester Council Foster Carer Opportunity

Cheshire West and Chester Council is seeking skilled and experienced foster carers to join our Specialist Foster Carer scheme. This scheme aims to provide a family environment that can meet the needs of young people who have 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
  • Patience
  • Child-centered
  • Therapeutic
  • Emotionally resilient
  • Physically resilient
  • Persistent
  • Active
  • Flexible
  • Interested
  • Positive
  • Resilient family/networks
  • Robust
  • Empathetic
  • Good communicator
Key Experience
  • 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
  • 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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