Specialist Foster Carer

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Salary

£40000 a year

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Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Social Care - Children

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Job description

Directorate: People Services/Fostering East Midlands

Hours: Full-Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Home Working

Make a profound difference in the life of a vulnerable child.

Are you a skilled professional with a passion for supporting young people? This Specialist Foster Carer role offers a challenging yet rewarding opportunity to provide a stable, family home for a child. You'll play a crucial role in their journey, offering support, guidance, security and care.

Requirements and responsibilities

• Derby City, Nottingham City and Derbyshire County and Nottinghamshire County Councils are looking for Specialist Foster Carers who can look after young people moving from residential care into foster family life.

• The young people are likely to have complex needs requiring a higher level of care, support and nurturing to make a real difference to their lives and future. They may have experienced multiple placements and will be managing behaviours due to traumatic life events.

• Specialist Foster Carers will have experience in caring or working with young people from a range of areas e.g. residential childcare, school or nursing settings.

• You, or somebody in your household, will need to be available as a full-time Carer, be able to drive and have access to a car, be home-based, have a spare bedroom and be motivated to work with a team of professionals.

• As a Specialist Foster Carer you will be self-employed.

• Carers will be matched with a young person following a careful assessment process to ensure the child is a good match for your family or circumstances.

Benefits

To reflect the skill and time needed, we offer Specialist Foster Carers:

• A generous financial package and income of up to £40,000 a year

• 28 days a year paid respite (opportunity for someone else to care for the child)

• A package of therapeutic support individually tailored to meet the needs of the child and carers

• An experienced supervising social worker as part of your network of support

• 24/7 support including evenings and weekends

• Training and support groups for carers – focusing on understanding attachment and therapeutic parenting strategies.

We work to build an inclusive, enriching, and empowering community for our children in care. Diversity enriches all our lives, especially those of children. We respect, value and welcome all applications. Age, disability, gender reassignment, relationship status, race, sexual orientation, religion, gender are not barriers to fostering, we actively welcome applications from all individuals, couples and families. Our aim is to build a caring, committed, diverse community for our children.

Next Steps

To find out more about this exciting opportunity, please contact Foster for East Midlands on or email

As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we'll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it's all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on Relay UK or