We offer a comprehensive salary and benefits (below) package 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 health insurance with Vitality – 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.

Anchor Foster Care is a not-for-profit, child-focused, family-centred independent fostering agency, established in 2002, to provide safety, stability and hope to vulnerable children & teenagers.

A big part of achieving our mission is not only securing great care for children, but also ensuring they are placed with the right family and supported, so their needs are consistently met.  

So, if you want to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people, then we want to hear from you.  

Anchor Foster Care Services is committed to safeguarding and protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults, and the promotion of equal opportunities and valuing diversity. Anchor places high importance on safe recruitment procedures by applying rigorous selection processes, for example checking the identity of applicants, online searches, receiving satisfactory references and successful completion of an enhanced check through the Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) and if appropriate an Overseas Criminal Record Check.

Please note, in order to meet the requirements of Section 23 (1) of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006, Anchor Foster Care requires that all applicants have the right to work within the UK.

This position is subject to Enhanced DBS Check, Social Media checks and satisfactory references.