The Referrals Team Leader role offers an exciting chance to shape how support for families and care leavers is delivered across the region. Leading a small, dedicated team, you’ll be at the centre of the process—ensuring that families are connected with the right support swiftly, and that the overall flow of referrals runs smoothly and effectively. Working closely with 2 Heads of Family Support and 3 Family Support Team Leaders, you’ll be the person who keeps momentum high, spots emerging needs, and understands the bigger picture of trends across the region.
A further key part of the role involves overseeing all incoming enquiries that you and your team will respond to —via email, phone, and other channels—which means you’ll develop a deep, confident understanding of all the Safe Families Home for Good activities, pathways, and processes.
This is a role for someone who enjoys variety: part detective, piecing together essential information to make informed decisions; part data analyst, interpreting patterns and insights to guide proactive planning and response. It’s also a distinctly relational role—regularly engaging with referrers (primarily social workers) and collaborating with local team leaders to ensure each family receives the right level of support at the right time.
You’ll be line managed by the Head of Business Development, who will offer coaching and support as you grow in the position. You will additionally have a 3 month overlap with the current post holder who is going on maternity leave in April 2026, which further enables a comprehensive induction period.
This role is ideal for anyone passionate about the children and families sector and the voluntary sector. The skills and experience you will gain and have opportunity to use —decision-making, case flow management, partnership working, and data-led insight—form a strong foundation for future opportunities in frontline practice, project management, and team leadership.
You’ll be based in the Nottingham office and will be part of the Central England regional team, working alongside colleagues across the East Midlands, West Midlands, and East of England.
The Family Support Manager is a key staff role which involves working with families and facilitating support from volunteers recruited from the local church and community.
You would work as part of the North West team which includes Lancashire, Sefton, Knowsley & St Helens, and you will need to be able to travel and work predominantly across Lancashire.
You would be involved from initial referral from school or Local Authority, through to official completion of Safe Families’ support, including risk assessment of a family situation, identifying goals, matching and introducing volunteers, providing on-going mentoring and support to volunteers and assessing when outcomes have been achieved. Your objective is to help support families navigate challenging circumstances through connecting them into local volunteer based, sustainable support.
The role requires experience of working with children, families or other vulnerable groups, and knowledge and application of safeguarding principles and processes. It is an incredibly exciting role where you would have the privilege of seeing how the simplest of actions, often from dedicated volunteers, really can bring hope and transformation to families and care leavers.
The Family Support Manager is a key staff role which involves working with foster and kinship carers and facilitating support from volunteers recruited from the local church and community.
You would work as part of the North West team which includes Greater Manchester, Salford and you will need to be able to travel and work predominantly across Greater Manchester.
You would be involved from initial referral from the Local Authority, through to official completion of Safe Families’ support, including risk assessment of a carer/child situation, identifying goals, matching and introducing volunteers, providing on-going mentoring and support to volunteers and assessing when outcomes have been achieved. Your objective is to help support foster and kinship carers to navigate challenging circumstances through connecting them into local volunteer based, sustainable support.
The role requires experience of working with children, carers, families or other vulnerable groups, and knowledge and application of safeguarding principles and processes. It is an incredibly exciting role where you would have the privilege of seeing how the simplest of actions, often from dedicated volunteers, really can bring hope and transformation to families and carers.
The Church and Community Relationship Coordinator is a role focussed on inspiring, resourcing and activating individuals and churches to understand the biblical mandate to care for children and families. You will inspire them to respond and play their part in the solution.
The role will focus on growing relationships with Church leaders, networks and individual Christians. The role of the Church and Community Relationship Coordinator is to stir, resource and activate the Church as we work together to provide a holistic solution which prevents children from entering the care system, and increases the number of safe and nurturing homes through fostering, adoption and supported lodgings.
The role also includes the recruitment and nurture of a team of volunteer Church Champions across your area who will enable us to maximize our vision and multiply our impact.
You would work as part of the Church and Community Relationships Team which includes staff who are located across Northern Ireland. You will need to be able to easily travel and work across the Northern HSC Trust area in addition to occasional travel across Northern Ireland.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Business Development to lead us forward at this exciting time as Safe Families and Home for Good continue to maximise the potential of our recent merger to one charity. This role is pivotal in increasing our reach and impact across the UK for children and families by seeking out and maintaining partnerships which enable key activity to take place.
Reporting directly to the Regional Director, the Head of Business Development will provide strategic leadership and oversee the planning and delivery of all current and future contracts. With a blend of visionary relationship building and operational diligence, you will highlight the incredible impact of the activity of Safe Families and Home for Good in local area partnerships, maximising the opportunity for sustained and increased funding.
As a key leader in our Regional Team, you will work collaboratively with other regional and national leaders across all of our key departments, engaging with staff in a variety of roles in order to deliver our regional and national priorities. You will also oversee the operational functioning of the region.
This can either be a fully office based or a hybrid role, where you would be connected to one of our regional offices at an agreed pattern which offers the flexibility of working up to 75% from home.
You will also need the capacity for wider travel across the region, and at times across the UK, to meet the demands of this high-profile position.