Posted on Thursday 1st May 2025
We are Recruiting for more Resilience Foster Carers: Join Us in Making a Difference
We are urgently seeking resilience foster carers who can provide stable, loving homes for children and young people facing challenging circumstances. As the demand grows for carers who can support older children who are neurodiverse or who may have complex needs, we want to hear from individuals with the strength, patience, and flexibility to make a lasting impact.
Resilience foster carers provide long term homes for our more complex children who are either at risk of entering or currently living in residential care. These children may have challenging behaviours or emotional difficulties as a result of their early childhood experiences or disabilities and we are looking for people who have experience of supporting children with these needs.
Resilience fostering is one of our specialist schemes and we provide a fostering salary of between £40,953-£44,309 per annum depending the age of the child you are matched with.
The aim of resilience fostering is to build children's resilience through careful matching with their foster carers, planned introductions before they move in, regular monthly meetings when they first move in and then on-going support from the intensive fostering team.
Who can be a Resilience Foster Carer?
- You will need to be over 21 and have a spare bedroom.
- Be available for a child on a full-time basis
- Have personal or professional experience of managing children with complex needs or disabilities. This could include, a teacher, teaching assistant, learning support assistant, residential support worker, social worker, family support worker, experienced foster carer.
- Ideally, there will be no other children living in the household, but we will consider children who are settled and assessed as having the ability to manage living with a child with complex needs or disabilities.
Find out more about resilience fostering with us and how you can make a difference today.