Panel Members
- Salary
- £40 per hour
- Location
- Hampshire
- Contract
- Zero Hours
- Hours
- Part Time
- Closing
- 18 December 2025
The Children’s Family Trust (CFT):
The CFT is a well-established Registered Charity and an Independent Fostering Agency. We provide a wide and varied range of foster placements but specialise in long term ‘Family for Life’ placements. We firmly believe our Foster Carers are our most valuable resource deserving the highest levels of support and remuneration we can offer. We work in partnership with Local Authority Social Workers committed to keeping our children safe and secure in stable and loving families.
Panel Member:
We are currently seeking self-employed, independent fostering Panel Members to join our South Central panel, based in Hampshire.
The Successful Candidates:
Previous panel experience isn’t essential. We look at recruiting panel members from a wide variety of backgrounds including professionals with a background in health, education, care or experienced fostering Social Workers.
You must have had experience either professionally or personally or both, of the placement of children in foster care.
Applicants must be able to contribute to all fostering panel functions including; making recommendations on the assessment and approval of foster carer applicants, foster carer reviews and terminations of approval and be able to demonstrate a thorough and robust approach to assessing written information.
Package
£40 per hour plus a travel allowance of 45p per mile.
The Children’s Family Trust is an equal opportunities employer and committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, ensuring that they are kept safe. As you will be in an environment which involves child protection and working with Looked After Children, you will need to be covered by DBS clearance and satisfactory references.