Foster Carers for Adolescents
1 month ago
We are seeking skilled and experienced foster carers to join our Specialist Foster Carer scheme, which aims to provide a family environment for young people with complex needs.
Key Benefits
- Professional fee of £52,000 per annum
- Fostering allowance to cover expenses
- Regular short stays for foster carers
Requirements
- Successful completion of foster carer assessment and approval
- Availability on a full-time basis
- Room to support a child or adolescent in your home
- Ability to offer a home to a solo child
- Willingness to provide a durable relationship and stability
- Ability to relate to young people with complex backgrounds
- Commitment to providing life-enhancing opportunities and life skills
- Residence in the Cheshire West and Chester area or close by
- Ability to demonstrate a caring attitude that is child-centred and relational
- Ability to offer unconditional positive regard and encouragement
- Support for young people not engaging in education, training, or employment
- Car driver with a suitable vehicle
- Successful DBS check
- Completion of mandatory training requirements
- Support for children and young people with family contact
Personal Characteristics
- Patience
- Child-centred
- Therapeutic
- Emotionally resilient
- Physically resilient
- Persistent
- Active
- Flexible
- Interested
- Positive
- Resilient family/networks
- Robust
- Empathetic
- Good communicator
Key Experience
- Demonstrated experience of working with children and adolescents with complex backgrounds
- Understanding of the impact of trauma, attachment, and neglect on children and adolescents
- Engagement as part of the wider professional team
- Upholding professional fostering standards
- Understanding of child development and its effects on life experience
- Therapeutic work with children and adolescents
Support
- Regular supervision
- Standard skills and training package
- Training tailored to carer needs
- Regular liaison and joint working with the scheme team
- Assessments of young people's support needs and development of support plans
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