# Lead Child Protection Practitioner (MACPT)

**Company**: Lambeth Council
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £54,360 pa rising to £57,495 pa incl. LW
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join Lambeth Children's Services as a Lead Child Protection Practitioner (MACPT). This is a fixed-term or secondment opportunity for 12 months, working full-time in a hybrid model. You will be part of an ambitious Children's Social Care service improving outcomes for children and families.

The Lead Child Protection Practitioner role involves leading complex safeguarding decision-making, providing expert leadership across Section 47 child protection enquiries, strategy discussions, child protection conferences, and multi-agency safeguarding activity. You will work alongside partners from police, health, education, and wider children's services to ensure children and young people are protected from significant harm.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and coordinating Section 47 child protection enquiries

- Chairing strategy meetings, child protection conferences, and other complex multi-agency safeguarding discussions

- Providing expert consultation, guidance, and professional challenge to social workers, managers, and partner agencies

- Supporting timely, evidence-informed, and defensible decision-making

- Contributing to protection and safety planning

- Promoting high standards of recording, analysis, information-sharing, and quality assurance

To be considered, you should have:

- A recognised social work qualification and current Social Work England registration

- Significant recent experience in front-line statutory child protection practice

- Detailed knowledge of child protection legislation, statutory guidance, and relevant multi-agency safeguarding processes

- Experience of chairing or leading complex child protection meetings

- Strong risk analysis, professional curiosity, and the ability to hold complexity

- The ability to work collaboratively with families and partners while providing clear professional challenge

The salary for this role is £54,360 pa rising to £57,495 pa incl. LW.

This post requires an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory health and work record, and the ability to travel for business purposes.

## Skills

### Required
- child protection
- social work
- safeguarding
- multi-agency working
- leadership
- complex decision-making

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