Community Foster Care is recruiting a Business Support Officer – Foster Carers in Gloucester or Lancaster.​

Hours per Week: 30oursper Week: 30


Main Responsibilities
To administer the organisation’s placement and referral management process.

• Work with Senior Leadership Team to develop this process and ensure the organisation is best placed to make quality expressions of interest.
• To ensure a process is in place so that this process is always active.
• Proactively working to Ensure all Foster Carer Statutory checks are up to date. Identifying any gaps and escalating within organisation policy.
• To take an organisational lead for Foster Carer training. Creating a training calendar in conjunction with both Registered Managers, organising the training and administering attendance.
• To oversee Foster Carers PDP’s, ensuring these are up to date and Foster Carers are meeting their requirements.
• To perform PA functions for the Senior Leadership Team, to include managing diaries, organising meetings, booking travel, taking notes and compiling minutes, etc.
• Ensure all Foster Carers receive birthday cards.
• Cover the referrals inbox on a rota system

      
Full details and application documents can be found here.

​People = Community
We at Community Foster Care are dedicated to building and evolving an organisation that behaves with cultural humility. As with any community, it is the people who make it, so we believe it is really important to bring people on board who are aligned with our values and beliefs. This could be our staff members, trustees, foster carers or extended community.

We want a community that is diverse, that believes in making society a more accepting, tolerant and integrated place. We believe a key part of this is being trauma informed, having an understanding of why people act and think in the ways they do and how this can impact their experience of the world.

It matters because the children and young people with which we work experience discrimination and are disadvantaged by our society. They frequently experience social injustice. These children also represent diversity in all its forms, so we want our community to reflect this back to them, not only because representation is so important but because we recognise the value of diverse thought and experience for raising children and young people. As an example, children of colour are disproportionately represented in the care system, yet foster carers of colour are under represented and it is important that this changes.

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As a Family Support Worker, your role is to provide direct work with the foster family, working in partnership with the foster parents and within the professional team. 

Your interventions will be purposeful, outcomes-focused and informed by the assessment of need. You will be able to understand, communicate and implement relevant aspects of our therapeutic approach. 

​You will ensure you are driven to ensure the community works to the highest standards.  You will need to be resilient, confident and creative to resolve challenges within the care system and enable foster families to also believe that they can overcome the many challenges children face.

As a Family Support Worker your role will also include supporting family-finding activity within the service, working alongside qualified social workers and an administrator. This will include participating in family-finding processes, including the reading and monitoring of child referrals, contributing knowledge of foster families, and supporting practical elements of matching children with carers. Final matching decisions will remain the responsibility of the allocated qualified social worker. 

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We’ve had some news recently at CFC that we are so excited to share with you all! After our most recent assessment from Ofsted, we’re proud to announce that Community Foster Care has been officially confirmed as OUTSTANDING provider of support for our carers and young people (read the full report here)! 

We’re unbelievably filled with not only pride, but also appreciation as we look back on the journey we’ve been on as an organisation to get to such a momentous point. 

It has us reflecting on our early days as an agency. When Community Foster Care was set up back in 1999, our founders had a simple mission statement: do fostering differently. 

It was a simple idea, but not necessarily an easy one to bring to life, but what worthwhile mission is ever easy?  In 1999, our social workers immersed themselves in the local communities and challenged prevalent ideas about who could foster. The aim was to support communities, provide local foster families for local children, working in areas of economic deprivation providing employment and improving skills.

And we are still operating in this way over two decades later!

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We are currently recruiting for a Supervising Social Worker or Senior Supervising Social Worker (depending on experience) to join our team in Lancaster.

The Supervising Social Worker or Senior Supervising Social Worker at Community Foster Care will be driven to promote the Child or Young Person’s Ambitions or Dreams. They will do this by recruiting, enabling, and enhancing foster families to provide safe, stable, loving, nurturing family homes. Children and Young People seeking to live within these families will have often experienced significant trauma and abuse.

Enabling Children and Young people to thrive in our foster families will therefore require a number of special ingredients, which you will need to develop and nurture. Community Foster Care is a therapeutic fostering agency; we are developing a reflective culture where our community is encouraged to be curious about themselves and each other and are helped to be so. It is critical that workers are committed and prepared to actively engage in this approach.

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Role Summary
You will work closely with foster families and social workers to seek families for children referred, supporting a successful effective transition.  You will ensure there are clear agreements between all parties and clarity about the CFC Service offer and partner expectations.  You will monitor the achievement of these and report on this.  Alongside this, you will monitor on behalf of CFC to ensure that we are compliant for children in our care in terms of fostering regulations, GDPR and H&S to assure a safe service and positive outcomes for the child. 

Key drivers of considerations
As a Family Finding & Compliance Officer, you will at all times:

• Work consistently with Community Foster Care’s values and contribute to achieving its mission.
• Promote Community Foster Care’s reputation and protect its ability to achieve its mission.
• Good understanding and ability to work to the policies and procedures of the Agency.

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​As a Team Manager (Fostering) at Community Foster Care you will promote the ambitions and dreams of children, by leading and enabling our team of Supervising Social Workers and Family Support Workers, whilst reporting to the Registered Manager.  You will do this by recruiting, enabling and enhancing foster families to provide safe, stable, loving, nurturing family homes.  You will harness CFC resources and therapeutic approach to achieve this. 

We have two Team Manager posts, one based in Lancaster and one in Gloucester. Each will take a lead on managing and developing a specialist area.  Therapeutic and Practice Development or Recruitment and Retention of Foster Carers.

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 Location: Gloucester
Pay scale: £46,067.19 - £49,956.72 (plus Out of Hours) 

Hours: Full Time - 37.5 hours per week in Gloucester

Closing Date: 9th June 2025 

​As a Team Manager (Fostering) at Community Foster Care you will promote the ambitions and dreams of children, by leading and enabling our team of Supervising Social Workers and Family Support Workers, whilst reporting to the Registered Manager.  You will do this by recruiting, enabling and enhancing foster families to provide safe, stable, loving, nurturing family homes.  You will harness CFC resources and therapeutic approach to achieve this. 

We have two Team Manager posts, one based in Lancaster and one in Gloucester. Each will take a lead on managing and developing a specialist area.  Therapeutic and Practice Development or Recruitment and Retention of Foster Carers,

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You will need to be a flexible and versatile marketer who will be wholly responsible for Community Foster Care’s Marketing Strategy, leading the way in growing the number of Foster Families in our community. You need to take a strategic lead in the promotion of Community Foster Care’s brand and fully embed yourself into Community Foster Care’s values and approach.  You will develop and lead diverse marketing and communication activities, (traditional and digital marketing and social media,) with responsibility for the entire marketing proposition including designing and implementing marketing strategies.  Ultimately you will be responsible for telling Community Foster Care’s stories and supporting others to do this, so that likeminded individuals are drawn to us and want to work together with us.

Critical to success in the role and to Community Foster Care will be the ongoing successful recruitment and retention of foster carers, in which your Marketing Strategy will support with the potential to grow skilled and resilient therapeutic parents, who are able to provide, a safe loving and nurturing home to the children in our care.  You will need to be tenacious, ambitious and creative in these endeavors.

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We are seeking a Family Support Worker to join our team.

As a Family Support Worker, your role is to provide direct work with the foster family, working in partnership with the foster parents and within the professional team.  Your interventions will be purposeful, outcomes-focused and informed by the assessment of need. You will be able to understand, communicate and implement relevant aspects of our therapeutic approach.  You will ensure you are driven to ensure the community works to the highest standards.  You will need to be resilient, confident and creative to resolve challenges within the care system and enable foster families to also believe that they can overcome the many challenges children face.  

CFC provides flexibility to staff working arrangements; however, being available to work directly with children outside of school days is essential.  Work is typically Mon – Fri, but some weekend work will be required.

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