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Hi, my name is Jackie,
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I work as a Fostering Panel Coordinator
for fostering services in Carmarthenshire.
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My job entails, from the start,
recruiting foster carers
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and taking them on the different stages
through to panel when they are approved.
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I love working in the recruitment team.
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I have worked with the recruitment
team for the last twelve years,
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and I find the job very fulfilling.
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It's part of my role. I work with
new people who are applying to foster,
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and it's lovely to meet them and hear
their ideals of what they wish to do
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as a foster carer and
also the skills they'll need
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to work with children with
the trauma they come with.
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The work of the assessors means they have
to go through an assessment very in-depth
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to get everything known about them.
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It can be long and laborious,
but in the end, it's worth it
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because we need to know that
our children are well cared for
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and that the people who apply to foster
are indeed suitable to foster.
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I have worked for Carmarthenshire
for twenty one years,
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I started as an admin
for the childcare team
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and then progressed on a secondment
to the recruitment team
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where I have been ever since.
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It is as if I found my niche and it
is something I really enjoy doing.
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I have tried to move away from it
as part of the fostering panel role,
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but I always seem to gravitate back to
recruitment because I enjoy it so much.
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All the team are lovely to work
with. We all get on quite well,
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and there's a lot of interaction
between us at events,
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which we all enjoy with foster carers and new
applicants and people who wish to foster.