Foster Carers (for different fostering schemes)
Stockport Council
Stockport
Flexible
£305 - £764 per week tax free (depending on the age of the children)
Self-employed
Expires 31/08/2025
About the Role
Foster Carers (for different fostering schemes)
£305 - £764 per week tax free (depending on the age of the children)
Stockport Council’s Fostering Team is looking to recruit foster carers for a wide variety of different fostering schemes who can:
1. offer short, respite or long term fostering homes for local Stockport children and young people aged 0 - 18 years
2. care for sibling groups of 2 or more children
3. provide specialist care to our complex children and children with additional needs
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 Stockport 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.
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 Stockport.
If you would like to find out more about the role and how to enquire about being a foster carer with Stockport Council then please email [email protected] or call 0161 474 3400.
No need to send a CV as we will discuss this career opportunity with you during an informal discussion with our qualified social workers.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
For more information, please visit https://www.stockport.gov.uk/topic/types-of-fostering
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Location
Piccadilly, Stockport, SK1 3XE, United Kingdom
Employee Benefits
Annual Leave
A generous annual leave allowance, up to 30 days annual leave dependent on grade and length of service, plus bank holidays with the option to purchase additional annual leave
Work Life Balance
Work and personal life balance. Many jobs include part time working, flexi-time and homeworking
Employee engagement
Employee engagement networks to support colleagues and create opportunities to feed into both workforce and borough strategies
Volunteering
Support for volunteering by allowing up to 4 hours per month (pro rata) to carry out any duties associated with this
Learning and Development
A suite of learning and development opportunities, from important data protection training to all level apprenticeships
Discounts
A huge range of discounts via an easy to use portal, including: Gym memberships, restaurants, events, travel, cycle to work scheme, home electronics and more.
Wellbeing
Access to an employee support hotline, available 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.
Pension Scheme
Option to join the Local Government Pension Scheme and give your pension a boost by enrolling into a salary sacrifice scheme.
Our Recruitment Journey
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Application stage
When you have seen a job, you are interested in you can submit your application online by clicking ‘Apply Now’, some vacancies will ask you to complete a supporting statement where you should address the About You section of the Job Profile for the role. Other vacancies will ask you to upload a CV.
Shortlisting
In keeping with our commitment to inclusion, recruiting managers take an anonymised approach to recruiting when shortlisting your application form. They will use the supporting information section of your application and your work history to assess your suitability for the job. You'll be notified of the outcome of your application form via email and if successful you'll be invited to book an interview slot.
Interviews
When preparing for the interview, you should familiarise yourself with the job profile. The About You section of the job profile contains the criteria that will be assessed at interview stage. You can prepare for interview by ensuring that you have clear examples relating to how you have met these criteria. If you require any reasonable adjustments because of a disability under the Equality Act, to assist you during the selection process we would be pleased to discuss them with you on [email protected]
Offer stage and pre-employment checks
Offer stage and pre-employment checks If you're offered the job after interviewing, you'll be sent a conditional offer detailing your new role. Along with the conditional contract and offer letter, our team will be in touch regarding your pre-employment checks.
The pre-employment checks that you will need to undertake will depend on the role that you've applied for. These checks may include:
• right to work in the UK
• Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
The information provided will be dealt with in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice
• gaps in employment
• reference checks. We will request references prior to issuing your conditional contract
• pre-employment health declaration
• qualification checks
Job Reference: 000197