Foster Parent/s – North West & Stoke on Trent areas
Short & Long Term - Caring for children within your own home.
Allowance: £430 – £460 per child, per week (enhanced fees applicable, when caring for children with additional needs)
Are you seeking a career that can positively impact a child’s life, allows you to work from home, and you have a spare bedroom? Consider becoming a foster parent – it might be the perfect match for you!
We are Foster Care Matters, a not-for-profit fostering charity offering a therapeutic approach and we are seeking caring individuals like you to join our family feel agency. We are currently seeking people to join us as prospective foster parents, providing either short-term or long-term foster homes to children, siblings and young people from the ages of 0 – 17 years of age.
We provide initial preparation and ongoing training and welcome individuals with varying levels of experience in child care, whether extensive or limited. It maybe you are a parent, childminder, residential worker, have worked with children or maybe provided babysitting for relatives and friends.
We also provide prepare to foster training at the beginning, ongoing training opportunities, a competitive fostering allowance ranging from £430 to £460 per child per week, 24/7 365-day support and guidance from a therapeutic parenting approach, along with additional fostering benefits like birthday, holiday, and festival allowances while looking after a child.
As a foster parent, just like any parent, you will need have the space in your life to foster and your current working arrangements and hours need to be flexible around a child. If you are thinking of working, alongside the role of being a foster parent, you will need to consider how you can manage responsibilities of being a foster parent around any work or caring commitments, as children in foster care will require a lot of support from you as a foster parent, especially in those first days, weeks, and months of living with you.
Already fostering?
If you are currently fostering but thinking about moving to Foster Care Matters, we are delighted to talk about your circumstances and guide you through the transfer process.
You'll be working with a not for profit fostering agency who puts all surplus funds back into our services and support to foster parents.
As well as the weekly fostering allowance, you will receive other payments for the foster child such as birthday allowance, summer holiday pay to help with extra activities, Festival allowance.