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Careers

Want to work with us?

Apply for our current job vacancies if you would like to become part of our outstanding success.

Our greatest asset is our skilled and committed staff

We recognise the importance of everyone who works at Flourish Fostering and promote teamwork. Whatever your skills and expertise, we offer fantastic opportunities to last a career lifetime.

Our Roles and Opportunities

So let’s start by telling you a bit about the roles.

For Supervising Social Workers, Social Work Assistant and Assessor positions, you will support the delivery of high-quality services to children and young people and our foster families. You will play a crucial role in providing family-based care and support for children and young people providing security, stability, and a sense of belonging to vulnerable children who cannot live with their families. 

Supervising Social workers have an essential role to play in fostering being a key link between Flourish and our Foster Parents. They provide support and advice while fulfilling their role as supervisor, ensuring that children and young people feel secure, and verifying that Foster Parents meet our fostering service requirements. They build close professional relationships while maintaining appropriate boundaries.

Social Worker Assistants work alongside the social work team to provide support to individual families, children and young people as well as providing administrative and office-based duties to ensure information is uploaded and recorded on children’s case records. Taking referrals for children from Local Authorities and helping social workers match children with appropriate foster families is also an integral part of this position.

For all roles with Flourish Fostering, developing and nurturing good working relationships with your colleagues and other professionals such as external social workers, commissioners and families applying to foster is imperative as is attending regular supervision and staff meetings, and undertaking training as required to develop your own individual skills and career development.

At Flourish Fostering, administration and support roles are instrumental in assisting our team so they can focus on supporting our Foster Parents and improving outcomes for children and young people. Our operational support team is vital to helping make our organisation a success, working hard to support our Social Workers and Foster Parents in their locally-based communities, wherever they are based.

These exciting roles are at the heart of our fostering service and require relevant experience and qualifications gained within a similar setting, complete with your eligibility to work in the UK and a full UK driving licence.

At The Cedars, Flourish’s head office, our administration and support roles are instrumental in assisting our team so they can focus on supporting our Foster Parents and improving outcomes for children and young people. 

Based at our head office in Snodland, Kent, our operational and support team is vital to making our organisation a success, working hard supporting our Foster Parents.

If you are passionate about making a positive and lasting difference to children and young people and you want to work for a progressive independent fostering organisation that is Ofsted rated as ‘Outstanding’ with ambitious plans for the future, then we’d love to hear from you!

We are happy to receive speculative employment applications, please email:
hello@flourishfostering.co.uk

Take your first step to becoming a Foster Parent with Flourish today

If you’re interested in becoming a Foster Parent and would like to learn more, then we’d love to hear from you. Simply fill in the form below and one of our friendly team will be in touch.