Work with Us

At Social adVentures we are made up of people who genuinely care, we want to help people and enjoy being employed to do this. This fits with Social adVentures ethos of working to help people to live healthier and happier lives.
This enables a culture of support where staff teams help each other out, look out for each other, solve problems together and celebrate success together.

We also have a culture of empowering our staff teams to make change in their part of the business. If they can see a way to make things better we don’t want to delay them! We encourage entrepreneurism and celebrate mistakes as we believe this is an important tool to learning.

Fostering & Business Support Coordinator

Location: Salford, Greater Manchester

Salary: £27,000 – £35,000 (depending on experience)

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Do you want to be part of a revolutionary new approach to fostering? Foster at HOME, part of Social adVentures, is launching a pioneering fostering model that opens up fostering opportunities to more people than ever before. For too long, many potential foster carers have been held back by not having a suitable home environment. Our innovative project overcomes that barrier — making fostering more accessible, inclusive, and life-changing for young people and families.

As our Fostering & Business Support Coordinator, you’ll play a central role in making this vision a reality. This is a varied and rewarding role, providing administrative and organisational support across three key areas:

• Fostering Administration (60%) – supporting recruitment, assessments, panel preparation, training events, and record-keeping to Ofsted standards.

• Alternative Education Administration (20%) – handling referrals, liaising with schools and local authorities, and maintaining pupil data.

• General Business Support (20%) – office admin, data input, scanning, and supporting light online marketing (website updates, newsletters, social media).

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Highly organised, IT-confident, and detail-focused.

• An excellent communicator who can work with carers, schools, and colleagues.

• Motivated by being part of a transformational project that will change lives.

In return, we offer:

• The chance to be part of a sector-leading initiative with real social impact.

• A friendly, supportive team environment.

• Ongoing training and professional development.

Join us in shaping the future of fostering — and help us remove barriers so more children can find the loving homes they deserve. To apply please send your CV to cathy@socialadventures.org.uk, you can also contact Cathy for a full job description.

Fostering Social Worker

Location: Salford, Greater Manchester

Salary: £40,000 – £44,000 (depending on experience)

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Do you want to be part of a revolutionary new approach to fostering?

Foster at HOME, part of Social adVentures, is launching a pioneering fostering model that opens up fostering opportunities to more people than ever before. For too long, many potential foster carers have been held back by not having a suitable home environment. Our innovative project overcomes that barrier — making fostering more accessible, inclusive, and life-changing for young people and families.

As our first Fostering Social Worker, you’ll play a central role in making this vision a reality. This is a rare opportunity to join an agency right at the start of our journey and to contribute to the shaping and development of a truly child centred agency with an ethical mindset. You will be a critical part of our recruitment, assessment, training and support of foster carers and involved in matching them with their new homes, creating new fostering families.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• An experienced social worker with a proven track record in working with children and their families in a statutory setting.

• Highly organised, IT-confident, and experienced in evidence based assessment.

• An excellent communicator who can work with carers, colleagues and local authorities.

• Motivated by being part of a transformational project that will change lives.

• Has a real passion for supporting children and sibling groups

In return, we offer:

• The chance to be part of a sector-leading initiative with real social impact.

• Be part of a purpose-driven, not-for-profit team

• Make a real difference to the lives of children

• Enjoy flexible working and a friendly, supportive culture

• Ongoing training and professional development.

We also have roles available in:

– Early Years Education within our Nurseries and Forest Schools (including apprenticeships)

We have a number of volunteering roles which are essential in helping us to run our day to day services. Volunteering roles include:

Welcome Hub Assistant

Food Club Assistant

Cafe Assistant

Gardening and Maintenance Assistant

To find out more about any of these roles email kate@socialadventures.org.uk

Our staff retention level is 97%. This is extremely high and means that staff stay with us for a long time. The national average for staff retention is 85% or less. We also have a good record of staff returning to us after trying other roles elsewhere.

97% Staff Retention

There’s some roles where a level of qualification or experience is needed but on the whole we recruit for attitude. We look for people that are enthusiastic, caring and positive who have a can-do attitude. New skills can be picked up though our training packages, having the right attitude is the most important attribute.

Interested in working with us? Enquire today to find out more.

Wellbeing

We work in caring professions where we are helping people every day. It’s really important to look after our staff teams and, to have resources available to support them when they need it.

We provide an enhanced wellbeing package that includes:

– Free counselling sessions available
– Employee interest free loan schemes
– Salary sacrifice schemes on electronics, making it easier if you need a new washer or TV!
– Enhanced external supervisions for relevant roles
– Staff wellbeing days within local teams (everything from dinners out, to team lunches to visits to the RHS in Worlsey).
– Staff socials for the whole Social adVenutres team
– 40% discounts of our nurseries and holiday clubs
– Your Birthday off work

Employee Owned

We are an employee owned organisation. This means everyone has a say in what we do and everyone has the opportunity to develop their part of the business. As an organisation we listen and value the views and ideas of our staff teams. We have a Staff Director who is appointed by the whole staff team. The Staff Director comes to our Board meetings and represents the staff teams as well as reporting back to staff on the meetings meaning everything is completely transparent.

Enhanced Training and Development

There’s lots of standard training available for the different roles from mental health first aid through to customer services. In addition to statutory training we also give every member of the team an annual training budget of £250 a year which the can pool over several years for bigger training courses. Staff have spent this on everything from yoga training through to an audible subscription.

As an employee owned company we believe it is extremely important to listen to our staff teams. We have an open door policy with Managers and Directors being very visible and approachable.

We are also part of an anonymous quarterly survey scheme called Engagement Multiplier. This gives all staff an opportunity to give feedback on how they feel we are doing as an organisation and to submit any ideas for improvement.

From this we consistently achieve an engagement score in the high 70s which is above the average for our type of organisation.