Emergency Carers (Foster Wales Powys)
Job description
Emergency Carers
Foster Wales Powys are looking for active, dynamic carers who are willing to work with the service to provide a secure home environment for a young person who needs short term emergency or respite foster care. This type of placement provides care for young people who need an immediate placement upon entry to foster care or following a breakdown of a previous arrangement.
Key Requirements
Emergency Carers will provide care to a child/young person for a maximum of 28 days. Each carer is to provide up to 47 weeks of foster care per year. Emergency Carers will be entitled to 5 week’s paid resting fee.
One foster carer in the household will need to be at home as a full-time carer with no other employment. You will need to attend meetings and to work in partnership with a range of other professionals as a significant member of a team around the young person. In addition, you will be required to attend ongoing professional training, development courses and support groups. Emergency Carers will not have any of their own children under the age of 16 years old or other children looked after in the household. They are to be available to care for the child/young person throughout the arrangement.
Where the child/young person is not in education, Emergency Carers will provide day care or alternative learning opportunities and as necessary will support the reintegration of the child/young person into school. The carer will also ensure, encourage and facilitate the child/young person’s family time and to access other identified services such as education and health.
Emergency Carers will provide a written profile which will be used to contribute to the overall assessment of the child/young persons’ needs. This will then assist in future placement matching decisions or plans for rehabilitation. Emergency Carers are required to assist the child/young person in making a successful transition to a future placement.
You will need:
1. significant experience of working directly with or caring for young people who present a range of behaviours
2. to be open-minded and have the commitment to make a difference to a young person’s life
3. patience, time and commitment to meet the individual needs of the child young person
4. the ability to support young people through times of transition and change
What will you receive in return?
You will be paid a weekly fee of £380 plus fostering allowances when you have a child in placement
You will have the support of a dedicated fostering social worker and family support worker.
You will have the support of a team of professionals who are working with the young person in your care and who can offer you one to one advice and support.
You will have access to a specialist training programme, some of which will start during your assessment period.
When the office is closed, you will have access to 24-hour support via the foster care support line and emergency duty team.
**The tasks undertaken by reflective foster carers are fostering tasks and do not go beyond anything that would be expected of them in their fostering role.
For more information or to request an expression of interest form please contact:
0800 22 30 627