Carer Recruitment Officer


Company:	The National Fostering Group
Salary:	£27,612 - £31,000 dependent on experience (£3,000 car allowance)
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	South West
Working pattern:	Field-based
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	27 Oct 2026
Closing date:	17 Nov 2026

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Summary

Job Title: Carer Recruitment Officer

Location: Regionally based across the South West

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Salary: £27, 612- £31,000 dependent on experience (+£3,000 car allowance)

About the Group

Its official, we have been rated as a Great Place to Work for 2025!

88% of employees at National Fostering Group say it is a great place to work, compared to 54% of employees at a typical UK based company! Please read more about why our employees love working here: https://www.greatplacetowork.co.uk/certified-company/1574411

With over 20 years experience, National Fostering Group is the largest independent children's fostering group in the UK with a community of over 2,500 foster carers.

As a Group, we work with Local Authorities to provide the highest quality of care for children and young people. All of our fostering agencies are officially recognised by Ofsted, Welsh and Scottish regulators as either ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Good’ which we are extremely proud of.

About the Role

We are looking for a Carer Recruitment Officer to help grow our family of foster carers. You will source and encourage enquiries through local engagement, undertake initial visits in the homes of our applicants and accurately record applicant information on our database.

The focus of the role is to raise awareness of fostering across local communities to help generate and nurture enquiries, keeping our database up to date. The role requires excellent time management, coordination and strong IT skills.

You will be comfortable engaging with the public and existing foster carers, attending events to raise awareness of fostering and help exceed the local recruitment target. You will be creating opportunities to engage with existing foster carers to promote ‘word of mouth/carer referral’ recommendations. You will also collate evidence of local recruitment activity and carer referral activity analysing your success in this and the subsequent outcomes to inform future strategy.

You will maintain contact with potential foster carers through the journey from enquiry to approval, sensitively gathering information from prospective foster carers at the early stages and providing information about the fostering task. You will then maintain regular contact and support the initial training and assessment process undertaken by your social work colleagues, managing the database of potential carers, and keeping colleagues and management updated with relevant information and weekly reporting. You will also be supporting other agencies in the area when deemed necessary.

Who are we looking for?

Evidence in providing great customer experience/service or having worked in recruitment would be an advantage however more important are strong communication skills, and a friendly and flexible approach which will be beneficial in enabling you to build rapport with members of the public, current and potential foster carers.

You must be proficient in basic excel database management and diary management, as well as demonstrating excellent spoken and written communication. Experience in marketing or working with databases would also support your application.

Essential Criteria:

A passion for growing our foster carer community

Excellent verbal and written communication

Self-motivated homeworker

Flexibility to work evenings and weekends when required

Excellent organisational skills

Full driving licence and access to car

But what else is in it for you? Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

27 days holiday, increasing with service up to 32 days + buy/sell scheme + bank holidays

Bonus schemes

Generous salary sacrifice pension scheme

Enhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you. Just some of the things on offer:

A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits

100’s of discount options

Salary sacrifice Eco Car Scheme and Cycle Scheme

Tech benefit

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all employees to share this commitment and undertake appropriate checks.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer.

Job ID : 328735

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