Foster Carer Recruitment Lead
Make a Difference. Build Futures. Change Lives.
At Compass Community, we believe every child deserves a safe, nurturing and stable home where they can thrive. As one of the UK's leading providers of fostering, children's residential care and specialist education services, we are driven by our values of Integrity, Courage and Care in everything we do.
Due to continued growth, we are expanding our Foster Carer Recruitment Team and are recruiting multiple Foster Carer Recruitment Leads across the UK.
Current Opportunities Available
- West (Full Time)
- North West
- London
The Role
As a Foster Carer Recruitment Lead, you will take ownership of a regional enquiry pipeline, managing prospective foster carers from their first enquiry through to initial visit and beyond.You'll be responsible for ensuring every enquiry receives a professional, supportive and responsive experience, helping prospective carers understand the fostering journey whilst maximising conversion rates and supporting service growth.
This is a rewarding role where your performance directly contributes to creating life-changing opportunities for children and young people.
What You'll Be Doing
Managing Foster Carer Enquiries
- Managing a regional pipeline of prospective foster carers from enquiry through to initial visit.
- Responding promptly to enquiries via telephone, email and text message.
- Building positive and trusting relationships with prospective foster carers.
- Conducting initial fostering visits within your region.
- Maintaining regular communication throughout the recruitment journey.
- Re-engaging applicants who have withdrawn where appropriate.
- Ensuring all enquiries are progressed within agreed service timescales.
- Maintaining accurate records across internal systems.
- Monitoring enquiry pipelines, regional reports and conversion activity.
- Producing weekly performance reports and supporting monthly reporting requirements.
- Ensuring compliance with safeguarding, GDPR and organisational policies.
- Supporting the wider recruitment function to achieve service objectives and targets.
- Supporting and co-facilitating foster carer information events and live Q&A sessions.
- Representing Compass Community at recruitment events across your region.
- Attending regional and national team meetings.
- Promoting fostering opportunities within local communities.
You'll Ideally Have
- Experience within recruitment, sales, customer engagement or another target-driven environment.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- The ability to influence and engage people both over the phone and face-to-face.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Confidence working independently and managing your own workload.
- Experience using CRM, ATS or database systems.
- Strong attention to detail and reporting accuracy.
- A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across your region.
- Experience within fostering, social care or children's services.
- Understanding of the foster carer recruitment journey.
In Return, We Offer
- £30,000 basic salary
- Uncapped commission structure with realistic OTE of £35,000
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Home-based working with flexibility
- Company pension scheme
- Ongoing learning, development and career progression opportunities
- Employee assistance programme
- Blue Light Card eligibility
- Life assurance
- A rewarding role where you can make a genuine difference to children's lives every day
Courage – We challenge ourselves to achieve the best outcomes.
Care – We put children, young people and families at the heart of everything we do.
If you're looking for a rewarding career where your work has a direct impact on helping children find safe, loving homes, we'd love to hear from you
