Location: Durham/Newcastle Area - Home-based / Hybrid (with travel as required)
Salary: £28,000 - £30,000 per annum (FTE)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
The Role
Are you an organised, compliance-driven professional looking for a role where your administrative expertise directly contributes to the safety and well-being of children?
We are seeking a Senior Fostering Administrator to join a dedicated IFA team. This is a pivotal role within their independent fostering agency, acting as the operational "engine room" that ensures our management team, foster carers; most importantly children in our care are supported by a seamless, compliant, and child-centered administrative service.
Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Administrator, you will handle a diverse portfolio of duties ranging from high-level compliance tracking to digital community engagement
- Manage and update audit systems (CHARMS), ensuring DBS checks, medicals, and training records for foster carers are accurate and up to date
Organise and facilitate formal Fostering Panels, including preparing packs and taking accurate, confidential minutes
Guide prospective and existing carers through the administrative stages of induction and annual reviews
Manage day-to-day social media engagement, drafting content that reflects our ethos while maintaining strict safeguarding and confidentiality standards
Act as a professional first point of contact for local authorities, foster carers, and enquirers, ensuring all communications are handled with empathy and efficiency
Essential Experience:
Proven experience within a fostering agency, children's services or a regulated environment.
Technical proficiency with CHARMS (or similar case management systems) and Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, Excel).
A track record in maintaining complex compliance trackers and audit systems.
Exceptional minute-taking skills and an eye for detail.
A deep understanding of safeguarding, GDPR, and data protection.
Personal Attributes:
A "child-first" mindset in every task you undertake
The ability to work independently in a remote/hybrid setting while remaining a collaborative team player.
Professional, warm, and clear communication skills.
How to Apply
If you have the experience and the passion to support the fostering community, we would love to hear from you!
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
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