Are you looking for a career- change with life-changing potential? If you live in a loving, stable home and can offer a vulnerable child a safe place to live, becoming a Foster Carer could be the vocation for you.
Who can be a Foster Carer?
To undertake this role, you must provide a safe and caring home environment for children to live in on a short- or long-term basis.
The essential Foster Carer criteria you will need to meet include:
* Be passionate about making a difference to children and young people.
* Have the right to work in the UK and be a permanent UK resident.
* Over the age of 21.
* Speak fluent English.
* Have a spare room.
* Need to undertake regular training.
* Work as part of a professional team caring for the child/young person.
Foster Carers are paid to house and look after children who are temporarily or permanently unable to live with their birth families. You will work from home as part of a professional team committed to turning children's lives around. With various placements including short and long term, parent & child, therapeutic, respite, sibling, unaccompanied asylum seeking children and disability.
* As a Foster Carer with Nexus Fostering, you will receive excellent benefits, which include:
* A highly competitive fostering allowance of at least £457 per week for every child you care for (this weekly allowance can be as high as £825 for some Foster Carers depending on the placement type; in most cases, the fostering allowance is tax-free).
* 24/7 unrivalled support, 365 days a year to ensure our support never stops.
* Extensive initial training and ongoing comprehensive training
* Up to 14 days holiday allowance. (21 days for Nexus 360 supported placement)
* Careful and considered matching process, that leads to successful outcomes
* Full range of fostering placements with a dedicated placement team supporting you
* Access to our Head of Education who supports you, children and young people with educational matters
* Support groups and family activities for the whole family
* Therapeutic lead and clinician in each office.
Why become a Foster Carer with Nexus Fostering?
⭐ Nexus Fostering is a fostering agency like no other. We believe all children and young people deserve a chance to live in a family setting, and we are proud that our foster carers and young people will always be our top priority.
⭐ We have a history of maintaining the highest standards required of independent agencies and are regularly evaluated by Ofsted. In all our practice areas, we have continuously received the rating "outstanding" from Ofsted since 2011.
⭐ We’ve been making a positive difference in the lives of children and young people in care throughout England since 2002 and remain social worker-led. We have organically grown and now have 9 offices over the UK.
⭐ Fostering gives you flexibility, and you can work from home. In some cases, it is possible to combine fostering with other work, too, depending on the needs of the children in your care.
⭐The chance to start a meaningful career: Foster Carers are childcare experts working with a team of professionals; they receive specialist training and career development opportunities.
⭐ Financial allowances and benefits. For many of our foster carers, fostering is their primary source of income. At Nexus Fostering, we offer competitive pay, paid respite, and other benefits.
⭐ We know every placement is unique and we respond to the individual needs of the children and young people with our two supported fostering services. Care + and Nexus 360 offer additional support to foster carers, children, and young people.
Fostering is an extremely rewarding career. We know fostering can have its challenges, so we invest in our foster carers by providing comprehensive training, 24/7 support, and clinician input. You will be part of a fostering family, a community of Foster Carers, and join local support groups, mentor schemes, and social events.
Click 'apply' to start your journey towards speaking to a member of our enquiry team. Learn more about the role and decide if fostering is right for you