At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide full-time care for children moving from residential care, ensuring stability and emotional support.
- Company: Foster Wales Conwy focuses on supporting children transitioning from residential care to family homes.
- Benefits: Earn £1,000 per week per child plus allowances for holidays and celebrations.
- Other info: Full-time self-employed role with potential for additional payments and training.
- Why this job: Make a meaningful impact by providing a nurturing environment for children in need.
- Qualifications: Must be 21+, have the right to work in the UK, and experience with complex needs.
The predicted salary is between 52000 - 52000 £ per year.
Step-Forward Fostering is a highly rewarding role that supports children leaving residential care to move into a stable and nurturing family home. As an approved Step-Forward Foster Carer, you would welcome a child or sibling group into your home and provide the care, stability, guidance, and consistency they need at a pivotal time in their lives. Many of these children have experienced trauma, disruption, or separation. By fostering with Foster Wales Conwy, you can help children stay connected to their community, schools, friends, and extended family while helping them to develop the confidence and skills to move forward.
If you have professional experience supporting children, young people, or adults, particularly those with complex or challenging needs, then you may already have many of the qualities that make an excellent Foster Carer. This role allows you to apply your professional skills in a truly meaningful way, providing a caring and supportive home where children can feel belonging and value as part of a family - your family.
Who Can Apply to Become a Step-Forward Foster Carer?
- Are aged 21 or over (with no upper age limit)
- Have the legal Right to Work in the United Kingdom
- Can provide full-time care for a child or children in their home (at least one carer must be present full-time if applying as a couple)
- Have a spare bedroom or bedrooms dedicated to fostering
- Have professional experience supporting children, young people, or adults, particularly those with complex needs or challenging behaviours
People from many different backgrounds can become successful Foster Carers. What matters most is having patience, empathy, and the ability to provide a caring and dependable home environment for a child or young person who needs it.
What the Role Involves
- Full-time care for a child or sibling group moving from residential care
- Offering continued stability, routine, and reassurance
- Support the child's emotional, behavioural, and social development
- Working closely with social workers, therapists and other professionals
- Keeping clear records and provide therapeutic, nurturing support
- Ensuring that the child can maintain important links to their wider family
Why Choose Step-Forward Fostering with Foster Wales Conwy?
- Enhanced fee of £52,000 per annum (equivalent to £1,000 per week)
- Weekly age-related fostering allowance for the child
- Payments for birthday, holiday and religious/cultural celebration
- Retainer payment paid from date of approval until child placed and between fostering placements
- £500 referral via Care Friends App
Additionally, you will receive access to:
- Therapeutic training tailored to your experience
- Support from a dedicated fostering team
- Other benefits and discounts such as (up to 100%) Council Tax reduction, Conway Council parking permit, FfIT membership and access Blue Light Card for nationwide discounts
Take the First Step into Fostering with Foster Wales Conwy. Apply today to learn more about becoming a Step-Forward Foster Carer.
Please Note: Progression is subject to background checks, assessment, and full fostering panel approval.
Foster Carer/Gofalwr Maeth in Conwy employer: MindMatch
Join Foster Wales Conwy, where you can earn an enhanced fee of £52,000 annually. Located in Conwy, the team is dedicated to helping children maintain connections with their community and family while fostering their development.
