Registered Fostering Manager

Registered Fostering Manager

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Are you an exceptional leader ready to make a transformative impact on children’s lives? 

Do you thrive in fast‑paced environments where your decisions shape outcomes, strengthen teams, and elevate practice standards? 

This is your opportunity to step into a senior leadership role within a forward‑thinking, values-driven fostering service known for its strong therapeutic ethos, high standards, and unwavering commitment to outstanding outcomes for children. 

Why This Role Matters 

We are strengthening our leadership team and looking for a dynamic Registered Fostering Manager who can drive excellence across the service. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring children experience safety, stability, and consistent, high‑quality care through trauma‑informed, relationship‑based practice.  

What You will Lead & Deliver 

• Provide decisive, strategic leadership that sets clear expectations and inspires high performance across the operational team.
• Maintain full regulatory compliance, ensuring the service is inspection‑ready at all times.
• Champion therapeutic and trauma‑informed practice, embedding consistent standards across all staff and foster families.
• Drive quality, growth, and innovation, ensuring strong retention of foster families and ongoing development of staff capability.
• Strengthen safeguarding oversight, ensuring timely decision‑making, effective risk management, and robust accountability.
• Promote a culture of learning, reflection, and continuous improvement.
• Represent the service at regional and partnership forums.

About You 

• Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
• Have or be in the process NVQ Level 5 in Leadership and Management or equivalent qualification
• Experienced leader within fostering or children’s social care.
• Skilled in safeguarding, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance.
• Confident in leading teams and building a high‑performance culture.
• Strong communicator and relationship‑builder.
• Ready to step up if currently a Deputy.

About Us 

We are an Independent Fostering Agency, family run and family oriented, with a clear and unwavering mission: to transform the lives of children and young people through safety, stability and hope, and nurturing foster families. Our child centred practice, strong therapeutic ethos, and commitment to ethical social care have contributed to our Outstanding Ofsted rating (January 2026). 

What We Offer 

• A leadership role with genuine scope to shape the direction of the fostering service.
• A values‑led organisation where decisions prioritise children.
• Supportive senior leadership and strong commitment to professional development.
• Opportunities to influence service growth and quality improvement.

How to Apply 

Please send your CV and a covering statement explaining why you are the ideal fit for this role to Vicky Atkinson – HR Administrator – [contact hidden] 

For an informal conversation before applying, contact Farayi Chinyemba – Managing Director Mobile Number [contact hidden].

What is the pay and benefits package?

We offer a comprehensive salary and benefits package (below) to staff, and a staff and carer reward scheme of up to £1,000 for referring foster families to the agency.

Package includes:

• Annual salary – competitive, paid monthly in arrears
• Home working allowance – paid monthly in arrears together with salary
• Business mileage – 45p/mile, paid on a travel expense claims basis
• Annual leave – 25 days per calendar year (pro-rata), 33 days including bank holidays
• Private healthcare – eligibility for this is post probationary period.
• Gym membership – 50% contribution to Gym membership. Paid on a claims basis
• Sick pay – Up to 5 days paid thereafter paid at statutory sick pay
• Bonuses – Anchor does not operate individual performance bonus schemes for all staff. Bonuses based on overall agency performance and director’s discretion are sometimes paid.
• Pension – 3% Employer Contribution, 5% Employee Contribution. Anchor operates a Workplace Pension Scheme with Smart Pension.
• Health & wellbeing support – Therapeutic counselling. Social activities. Team Building Workshops. Access to a platform application that provides a variety of benefits.