The UK's Most Experienced Consultant Foster Carer Recruitment Specialist
Rolfe Pearce MBA holds a unique expert view on this very narrow
service, called Foster Carer Recruitment. Rolfe started his Career in Recruitment and quickly rose through the ranks to become a Recruitment Solutions designer for FTSE 100 companies. Designing solutions to save the companies money, to consolidate services and back office functions, and to introduce digitisation of the end to end process, currently supported with AI.
Rolfe then coupled this expertise with the study of the MBA
became an expert in business systems and specifically Recruitment Systems and Processes. Understanding something that sounds quite simple. If you need skills how do we let the people who have those skills you need them, and where do we find them.
Rolfe then became a Foster Carer himself, he was then awarded a National Award, Foster Carer of Distinction. He fostered a number of children over 10 years, Observing the life of a Foster Carer
going through the recruitment process himself, and observing the whole process from the view point of the recruiter and how it could be improved.
So Rolfe has a unique set of skills in the Fostering Sector, he was a Foster Carer himself for 10 years, he has worked with IFA's and LA's in Fostering Recruitment for 15 years, his MBA from Keele University business school was focussed on Recruitment Systems. He has external Corporate Recruitment experience from the commercial sector, designing recruitment solutions for FTSE 250 companies. What thios gives Rolfe is a view from the inside of the fostering sector as a professional recruitment solutions expert.
This makes his view, his approach and his solutions within the Fostering sector unique and expert
Rolfe has developed a bespoke to the sector "Audit of Service" designed to review your end to end process and deliver a report of
suggested improvements.
Rolfe has also developed bespoke Marketing platforms to inform the latest Marketing techniques such as FosterFound and FosterSystem tools to help analyse the best possible campaigns and integrated plans to support more enquiries coming through.
Rolfe is finalising a nation recruitment tool called Fosterwave and is working with the government and industry bodies to adopt the
campaign nationally.
How to support Foster Carer Recruitment
I work with Any fostering provider who is interested in
improveing recruitment performance through three focused
areas:
🔍 Audit
Identify what’s not working in your current recruitment approach and where you’re losing potential foster carers.
🎤 Workshops
Equip your recruitment team with practical strategies to increase enquiries and improve conversion.
Equip your senior leaders in Fostering with the tools needed to ensure that the Strategy is the right one, and how to interrogate the figures to make sure it is delivering how it should
🚀 Campaigns (Foster Wave)
Deliver structured, campaign-led activity that generates
momentum and reaches the right audiences.
Delivering Foster Carers with a completely new recruitment tool, never seen before in the sector.
The Problem
Spending with ever
diminishing returns
Many Fostering Providers are investing time and budget into fostering recruitment — but not seeing results.
Enquiries are low, conversion is inconsistent, and messaging often fails to connect with the right people.
Without a clear campaign approach, recruitment becomes reactive, fragmented, and difficult to sustain.
15
Years Corporate Recruitment Experience - Designing Recruitment solutions for FT100 companies
10
Years as an Award winning Foster Carer
13
Years Foster Carer Recruitment Expertise inside LA's and IFA's
Why Choose me?
Rolfe Pearce is YOUR Foster Carer Recruitment Specialist, the recruitment director your team is missing. If you are a Social Work Manager you are not a recruiter, Rolfe will help you understand what you need to learn to manage this vital part of your role. If you are the recruiter you would love to have someone help you develop a 12 month plan that you know works. Rolfe will show you how. If you are a senior manager I am the recruitment director on your team you need but can't afford. Remember for every extra foster carer delivered to your service the cost of engaging Rolfe is covered, just one extra in the year.
Specialist Expert
Led by Rolfe Pearce, Leveraging an MBA - Commerial Recruitment Experience - LA and IFA experience, and award winning Foster Carer for 10 years Rolfe is a subject matter expert. Using my MBA majoring in recruitment I will map your recruitment process and stope the drop outs and suggest solutions to your marketing that will deliver results.
Single Focus Expertise
Rolfe specialises in this one key specialist sector Foster Carer Recruitment. Rolfe has the experience and expertise to quickly analyse your recruitment process to bring lasting improvements in measureable conversions into assessment.
One to one
I bring a campaign-led approach to
foster carer recruitment — combining strategic insight with practical delivery.
My experience spans local authority services and regional programmes, with a focus on what actually drives enquiries and conversions.
I don’t offer theory — I provide clear, actionable approaches, operational changes that teams can apply immediately.
Get in touch
Telephone: +44 7926693105
E-mail: rolfe@fcrspecialist.com
Address: Garden Street North, Halifax, HX3 6BP, United Kingdom