Fostering Coordinator
Application Deadline: 4 January 2026
Department: Rehoming
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Penrith Transfer Centre
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.
Interviews for this role are provisionally scheduled for week commencing 12th January 2026.
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.