Head of Fostering Recruitment & Social Media

Annie Shafi

Annie Shafi is the Head of Recruitment for My Foster Family. As the Head of Recruitment, Annie is responsible for leading the recruiting department in all its functions, inclusive of recruiting potential foster carers. Prior to her work with My Foster Family, she held senior managerial roles which have enabled her to become a huge asset to our team here. Annie leads all our social media campaigns and is an active member of the Advisory Group. Her meticulous methods of organisation are extremely helpful to us here. All prospective foster carers are approved by her and are vetted thoroughly. This is all done prior to the passing of referrals on to the Agencies, as well as Local Authorities. Annie and her team provide the potential foster carers with the relevant information, advice, training, support and encouragement they need to successfully apply to be a foster carer. In addition, she has had 4 years of experience fostering children and young people. All prospective foster carers have to be approved by me and are vetted thoroughly. This is all done prior to me passing their referrals on to the Agencies as well as Local Authorities. My team and I provide the potential foster carers with the relevant information, advice, training, support and encouragement they need to successfully apply to be a foster carer. In addition, I have had 4 years of experience fostering children and young people. I am also part of the advisory group for the business and. I also lead on all our social media campaigns and posts for all our products across the various different brands of our organisation and I am an active member of the Advisory Group. I am always equipped to offer support to new foster carers when needed and have trained all new starters to the business on Sales Force, our in-house cloud- based CRM system. This is just an overview of some of the duties I do as Head of Recruitment, but it is not an exhaustive list and I continue to contribute to sectors of the business when needed in addition to my role heading up the recruitment.