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Level 5 Resilience
Fostering
Do you have experience of working with young people? Would you like the opportunity to earn up to £600 per week*?
What is the Level 5 Resilience Fostering project?
Level 5 Resilience Fostering is a unique fostering project providing solo long term, secure, family based placements for young people aged between 10-18 years who currently reside in residential care. This innovative project works in partnership with the Sustain psychological service to tailor individual support for its foster carers and the young person. Level 5 Resilience Fostering recruits experienced foster carers for this project who are able to provide the long term placements for the young people currently in residential care who are difficult to place due to challenging or risky behaviour. This means that carers recruited to the Level 5 Resilience Fostering project will already have some relevant professional childcare experience, either as an established foster carer with a proven track record on sustaining and supporting a child with complex needs through to independence, or have worked with children in a professional capacity. For example, as a residential social worker.
Why Level 5 Resilience Fostering?
A Level 5 Resilience Fostering placement is truly an innovative way of fostering. The Level 5 programme is based on a Resilience model and focuses on building the resilience of the young people and their carers in all aspects of their life. This includes: providing a supportive placement, encouraging friendships, promoting education, nurturing positive values, developing social competence and inspiring the young person’s talent and interests. Research tells us that promoting resilience ensures a young person is more prepared, ready and capable to achieve in life and overcome adversities. In order to promote a young persons capacity to achieve, Level 5 Resilience Fostering placements are matched very carefully using a Resilience based approach because the most important factor in promoting resilience for young people is a secure and supportive family. This is where you come in.
Who are these young people?
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Aged between 10-15 years
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Currently placed in a residential setting
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May have experienced multiple moves
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Present risk factors which indicates they need a single placement
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Evidence of previous attachment to care givers
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Expressing an interest in wanting to live in a long term family setting
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Regularly attending some form of Educational Provision
What does this mean for you?
If you are approved as a Level 5 Resilience Foster carer we would expect you to:-
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Offer a long term placement to a young person through to independence with intensive support
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Provide the young person with a bedroom of their own
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Provide one adult to be available at all times to the young person
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Agree to an enhanced Criminals Record Bureau check and Medical
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Attend initial and ongoing training
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Meet regularly with the project team, including the project Psychologist
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Work together with the young person, their parents, and all key agencies towards the aim of enabling the young person to develop social and skills- based competencies
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Attend regular monthly meetings to maintain the short and long term plans for the young person
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Be emotionally available to a young person at all times
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The capacity to fully engage with the professional task of fostering in line with the Children's Workforce Development Standards
What will you get from us?
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Earn up to £600 per week (*- made up of a professional fee and an allowance to cover the cost of caring for the young person)
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Direct support from the Project Psychologist
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Access to an independent SOVA mentor for the young person placed in a Level 5 Resilience Fostering placement.
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Weekly placement support visits from your allocated Placement Support worker, including dedicated supervision
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Monthly Post Placement Support meetings
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Built in respite with the projects own dedicated respite carers, whom also provide a learning mentor role for the young person.
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Specialist pre and post approval training
What our Level 5 Resilience Foster carers have said:
"Level 5 is about working as a team"
"Level 5 is about sticking together no matter what. The key to it is to like it/each other and really want to come together."
"For us it’s about trying to give a young person a normal upbringing."
If you are interested in becoming a Level 5 Resilience Foster Carer please complete our online enquiry line form| or ring our freephone number 0800 169 20621.