Fostering Recruitment Officer

Salary
£32,061 \- £34,434 (pay award pending)

Contractual hours
37

Basis
Full time

Region
Rotherham

Job category/type
Social Care

Date posted
19/06/2026

Job reference
REQ23234

Directorate: Children and Young People's Services

Temporary fixed term for 12 months, full time, 37 hours per week.

Are you passionate about making a difference for children and young people in care?

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is seeking a Fostering Recruitment Officer to join our ‘outstanding’ fostering service. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in recruiting and supporting foster carers to ensuring safe, high\-quality foster placements for children and young people.

The postholder will support prospective foster carers from initial expression of interest through to point of approval. This will include carrying out engagement and re\-engagement tasks, initial screening, home visits and pre\-application support.

The postholder will work closely with the wider Fostering Team. The postholder will write reports, maintain and update systems, records and databases and deliver excellent customer service at all times. The postholder will be a representative of the Fostering Team at regular meetings with colleagues in the Fostering Service and Social Care.

The postholder will be responsible for developing and maintaining databases. They will maintain key lines of communication with leaders and ensure data is accurate and demonstrates pre\-application activity and trends across the service to inform further discussions within the higher council structure.

The postholder will be an active and present worker within the fostering community by attending support groups and visiting carers to build and establish good working relationship with RMBC foster carers.

They will need to be able to evidence creativity and flexibility when using limited resources available to them. They will need to be able to work under their own initiative, be able to engage in professional challenge and negotiate with colleagues and foster carers to ensure the needs of children in care are being met to achieve placement stability and continuity of care.

For an informal discussion, please contact Clare Ruckledge, Manager, Fostering Team, at Clare.Ruckledge@rotherham.gov.uk. *This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at* *www.gov.uk/disclosure\-barring\-service\-check* *Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.* *Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our* *website**.*

This listing is from indeed. View original listing ↗