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Training, Supervision and Support 

We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process enables us to attract prospective carers, who, with support and ongoing training, are able to offer the highest levels of care and nurture to children and young people. Evergreen Foster Care is rigorous in the assessment of prospective foster carers and is constantly in search of those who feel able to dedicate themselves to this demanding role.

 

We wish to hear from people who are considering fostering and we understand they may want to feel reassured that they will be cared for and nurtured by their agency. 

 

We want to hear from people who can offer a long-term home and who will remain committed now and into a child’s later, adult years.

 

A comprehensive training and supervision programme is available to our foster carers, aspects of the programme are listed below:

Intensive initial training and 20 training sessions per year (training team consists of therapists, supervising social workers, leaders in special education, family support workers, registered manager and behaviour specialists)

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  • Conflict resolution and Team Teach training

  • Paperwork and record keeping (using a mobile phone application)

  • Paediatric First Aid

  • Structure and routine – linked to behaviour plans

  • Structure and routine – linked to activity planners

  • Social, emotional and mental health difficulties facing children in care: trauma (delivered by therapist)

  • Social, emotional and mental health difficulties facing children in care: attachment disorders (delivered by therapist)

  • Supporting children on the autistic spectrum

  • Supporting children with ADHD

  • Supporting children with learning difficulties

  • Behaviour systems and boundaries, rewards and consequences

  • Therapeutic approaches, including working with a traumatised child (delivered by therapist)

  • Therapeutic Communities (delivered by therapist)

  • Review of, and strategic planning for, placement progress

  • Risk assessment

  • Group problem solving

  • Safely managing sexually harmful behaviours

  • Impulse control techniques

  • Bereavement and/or loss

  • Education for looked after children

  • Psychological and therapeutic input

  • A bespoke, tailored therapy / support package for either the whole family, the child or the carers individually

  • Clinical psychologist consultancy and supervision for therapist

  • Accreditation as a Therapeutic Community by the Royal College of Psychiatrists

  • LGBTQ+

  • Virtual Reality (Through the eyes of the child) in partnership with Cornerstone

 

 

Other ongoing support:

  • Telephone advice line, weekends and evenings. 

  • Support with professional meetings

  • Individual support following physical intervention or major incident

  • Child and foster carer progress monitoring tool (evidenced)

  • Fortnightly Connect, Develop, Review Sessions

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