Training, Supervision & 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 its assessment of prospective foster carers and is constantly in search of those who feel able to dedicate themselves to this demanding role.
A comprehensive training and supervision programme is available to main and respite Foster Carers and a minimum attendance requirement is agreed on approval. Aspects of the programme are listed below:
Intensive initial training and 20 training sessions per year (training team consists of 2 therapists, senior social worker, leaders in special education, registered residential care manager and behaviour specialists)
- Conflict resolution and Team Teach training (2 days)
- Paperwork and record keeping (using a specially developed system)
- 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 (delivered by therapist)
- Detailed contingency planning
- Understand the impact and effect of contact on all stakeholders
- 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:
- 20 x group therapeutic sessions per year with therapist
- 20 x One-hour therapy session in their home 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
Other ongoing support:
- Telephone advice line 24hrs
- Attendance at LAC and PEP reviews
- Face to face support following physical intervention or major incident (up to once per month per carer)
- Child and carer progress monitoring (evidenced)
- High quality and consistent respite every other weekend, 10 holiday days and 3 spare days, just if ‘something comes up’
- Connect, Develop, Review Sessions
Supervising social workers have regular contact with the foster home and our carers have access to specialist advice and support 24 hours a day, 365 days per year from people who personally know the children in your care. Supervising social workers have at least 6 weekly contact with the child in placement as part of their supervisory duties and respite carers are provided with supervision 3 times per year, or as required.
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