Fostering Coordinator
Application Deadline: 24 December 2025
Department: Rehoming
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Loughborough
Compensation: £24,907 per year + benefits
Description
Are you passionate about dog welfare and building supportive communities?
As a Fostering Coordinator, you'll play a vital role in helping dogs thrive outside the kennel environment, recruiting and supporting volunteer foster carers, ensuring high standards of care, and working closely with adopters to find permanent homes.
What does this role do?
As a Fostering Coordinator you will:
* recruit, assess, and induct new foster carers, promoting the scheme through events, conversations, and collaboration with colleagues across Dogs Trust.
* support foster carers with regular check-ins, arrange veterinary appointments, and provide access to behaviour or training support when needed.
* deliver training to foster carers with input from the Learning and Development and Welfare teams, either one-to-one or through organised group sessions.
* identify and place suitable dogs into foster care, including temporary placements for long-stay dogs needing respite from kennels, and carry out necessary intake assessments.
* promote dogs in foster or Home Stay settings by preparing profiles, contacting potential adopters, organising matching meetings, and completing all adoption paperwork.
Could this be you?
With experience of working with volunteers and of handling and rehoming dogs, you will have excellent communication and organisational skills. With and understanding of best practice in interacting with volunteer fosterers you will have great customer service skills.
Please note, the interviews are provisionally scheduled for 9th January 2025 in person.
About the team
The Rehoming department is responsible for helping as many dogs as possible find their forever homes, whether they are cared for in our network of Rehoming Centres, in a foster home or by their current owner using the Home Stay scheme. We strive to achieve excellence in our rehoming processes and to ensure the highest standards of veterinary and behaviour care through our highly skilled teams.
We are planning for Interviews to take place on 8th January.