Carer Recruitment Officer

Job Title: Carer Recruitment Officer

Location: Office based in Belfast with requirement to travel throughout NI

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

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

About Kindercare

Kindercare is a local, non-profit making Fostering Agency. We are part of the National Fostering Group the largest Independent Fostering Agency in the UK.

Its official, we have been rated as a Great Place to Work 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:

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.

In Northern Ireland, we work with Local Health and Social Care Trusts to provide the highest quality of care for children and young people. All of our fostering agencies across the UK are officially recognised by Ofsted, Welsh and Scottish regulators as either Outstanding or Good which we are extremely proud of.

We also offer a 4 day working week - this means 80% of the hours for 100% pay! This will be given following a successful 6 month probationary period and is a performance based benefit.

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 worker
• 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 youll 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…