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About the Role
Foster with West London (FWL) is seeking a Fostering Recruitment Coordinator to support prospective foster carers through the assessment process. This role focuses on Stage One checks, training, panel preparation, and applicant support, ensuring smooth and efficient progress. The position involves coordinating training and panel activities, managing records and statutory checks, maintaining databases, monitoring performance, and providing excellent customer service. This is an opportunity to join an innovative regional service and play a key role in supporting children to remain within their local communities.
Responsibilities
- Support prospective foster carers through the assessment process, with a particular focus on Stage One checks, training arrangements, panel preparation and applicant support.
- Work closely with applicants, social workers, partner agencies and local authority colleagues to ensure assessments progress smoothly and efficiently.
- Coordinate training and panel activity.
- Manage records and statutory checks.
- Maintain databases.
- Monitor performance information.
- Provide a high standard of customer service.
Requirements
- Highly organized
- Customer-focused
- Passionate about improving outcomes for children
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Confidence using IT systems
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience within fostering, children's social care, or a similar operational setting would be advantageous
- Enhanced DBS Check required
Skills
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- IT systems proficiency
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
Location
- 145 King Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9XY
Work Type
- Part-time
- Temporary until 30 March 2027
Salary/Compensations
- £41,739 - £43,014 pro-rata, per annum (actual salary £24,346 - £25,090 per annum)
Benefits
- Access to a comprehensive total reward package
- Flexible working employer
About the Company
- Foster with West London (FWL) is a regional fostering recruitment service working across eight Local Authorities: Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Brent, Hillingdon, Harrow, Hounslow and Ealing.
- Our vision is to ensure more children can live with high-quality foster carers in their local communities, improving outcomes and increasing placement choice across West London.
- We are fair, caring, collaborators, and driven.
- We believe an inclusive workplace is about the visibility and representation of our local diverse community - it is about open and transparent decision making co-produced with staff and residents.
- We take a proactive approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion so that it is part of the fabric of the Council with a shared understanding of the role all colleagues play in realising the inclusivity of the workplace.
- Hammersmith & Fulham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
Equal Opportunity
- We promote benefits and opportunities for all.
- In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group.
- All sections of the population will have equitable access to jobs.
- No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification (GOQ) applies.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults.
- We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
- We are committed to removing barriers in the workplace and this includes adjustments throughout the recruitment process.