Foster Carers (for various foster carer roles)
Salary: Up to £42,848
(made up of weekly skills payment + weekly allowances per child, tax-free, depending on the age of the children)
We are looking for people who live in Salford or surrounding areas who have a spare room, who are passionate about improving children s lives, who are aged 21 or over, and able to use their professional experience in a different but truly life-changing way. We re looking for people with the heart, resilience, and skills to make a real difference in keeping local children within their local community.
Salford Council s Fostering Team is looking to recruit foster carers for a wide variety of different fostering schemes who can:
We are actively recruiting foster carers who can care for children aged between 0 - 18 years old who are in short term and long term fostering homes. We are looking for local foster carers who can look after a diverse range of children and young people, particularly for older children and teenagers, brothers and sisters and children with additional needs. We are looking for people who can demonstrate they have the time, availability, space, a spare room and empathy to offer their home to a local Salford child or young person.
Our foster carers must be willing to work with a wide age range of children and our foster carers need to be able to show commitment, understanding and compassion to children during difficult times and help them to thrive. The role involves the overall daily 24/7 everyday care of looking after a child or young person, taking children to and from education setting, arranging and attending appointments and meetings.
We also welcome applications from anyone who is able to care for sibling groups of 2 or more children as, wherever possible, we aim to place siblings together in order to maintain the bond and promote attachment that siblings have to one another.
We provide our foster carers with an excellent training, support and tax free financial package and benefits and we will help guide them through the assessment process and work with them as a team to ensure the needs of the foster carer and the child are met.
We offer local discounts to our foster carers, tax advice and local support groups where our carers receive peer-to-peer support from other foster carers in Salford.
Successful applicant s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Salford City Council (Fostering), please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.
