A warm welcome to the Swiis Foster Care Head Office
As a nationally respected provider of fostering services, Swiis Foster Care strives continually to improve the outcomes delivered to the children and young people in our care. Our values are at the heart of everything we do. Each and every member of the Swiis team ensure that our children and young people are provided with opportunities that they would not have otherwise had and we support and develop our carers to ensure they continually progress their skills and ambitions.
Swiis Foster Care is part of the Swiis International Ltd group of companies whose head office is located in central Bristol. Swiis International Limited is the parent company of Swiis Foster Care England, Swiis Foster Care Scotland and Swiis Healthcare.
Meet our leadership team
Swiis Foster Care is managed by highly qualified and experienced directors and managers who have worked within the social and healthcare industries for the majority of their careers, bringing a wealth of strategic, professional and operational skills which are applied to provide a comprehensively child centred service.
Our local teams are managed by some of the finest social work professional in the entire industry who are in turn supported by dedicated centrally based services here in our Bristol Head Office which includes the attraction, recruitment and retention of foster carers, the matching and placing of children and young people and behaviour management support.
Swiis Foster Care is further supported by our corporate services which includes human resource management, information technology and finance.
Who works in our Bristol Head Office?
Behaviour Management
Swiis believe that supporting our foster carers well is essential to ensure the stability of the children and young people you care for and our social workers do an incredible job in providing that support to all carers.
Research and experience have however shown that children who experience trauma and separation in early childhood can have a turbulent and challenging adolescence and this may be a possible reason a placement can, at times, become unstable.
Swiis believe that our foster carers on occasion require additional support in understanding and learning techniques which would further assist in the management of difficult or challenging behaviours and have introduced an additional programme of support which our carers will be able to access
directly. The programme has been specifically designed to offer support and guidance to carers who experience behaviours from the child or young person in placement which they are finding difficult to manage.
The team consist of specialist training personnel who are responsible for delivering the Challenging Behaviour training as part of the mandatory foster carer training programme (or for new carers, this is undertaken as Day 4 of the preparation training), both cover MAPA based Challenging
Behaviour as part of the course content.
Foster carers can access The Behaviour Management Team directly to request support for individual carers who are experiencing problems with behavioural issues in placement. Calls from carers requesting support are managed via a dedicated admin team who will schedule a call back between the
carers and a member of the BM team as a matter of urgency.
Jordon Murdoch
Jackie White
Placement Team
The Placements Team will identify a suitable referral of a child or young person in need of a fostering placement that matches the Foster Carer's profile, the area they are based, approval range, family composition and fostering experience.
Nirali Patel
Florence Whelon
Stacey Slipper
Rhian Welch
Jackie Crisp
Joel Gould
Bryony Ferris
Rebecca Hewitt
Recruitment Team
Sarah Kitson
Emily Saunders
Rhiannon Payne
Beth Jones-Grimshaw
Kate Godwin
Office Information
ADDRESS
4th Floor
Prince House
Prince Street
Bristol, BS1 4PS
01179 065 291
WHO WORKS HERE
Directors
Behaviour Management
Placement Team
Recruitment Team
Marketing Team
Start Your Fostering Journey
With thousands of children coming into foster care in the UK everyday, we urgently need foster carers more than ever.
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