# Senior Lead Child Protection Practitioner

**Company**: London Borough of Haringey
**Location**: London Borough of Haringey, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 61,476 - 64,839 per year
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Lead Child Protection Practitioner to lead a group of Local Child Protection Practitioners (LCPPs) in the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT).

As a Senior Lead Child Protection Practitioner, you will be responsible for:

- Leading, supporting, and challenging LCPPs in your cluster, including regular reflective supervision

- Quality assuring child protection decisions, strategy discussions, conferences, and plans

- Leading the most complex and high-risk child protection decision-making and chairing the most difficult conferences

- Building strong working relationships with police, health, and education colleagues

- Agreeing with colleagues how conferences and cases move across to the MACPT

- Using data, audit, and feedback from children and families to drive improvement

- Helping recruit, induct, and develop new LCPPs

- Representing the MACPT with senior leaders and partners

The MACPT brings social work, police, health, and education expertise together in one team.

You will be a senior child protection practitioner with a track record of leading others, making sound decisions under pressure, and building trust across agencies.

**Essential qualifications and experience:**

- Recognised social work qualification and current registration with Social Work England

- Substantial post-qualifying experience in statutory child protection

- Experience of supervising, leading, or managing practitioners

- Experience of chairing or leading complex multi-agency meetings

- Thorough knowledge of the Children Act 1989, Working Together to Safeguard Children, and the London Child Protection Procedures

**Desirable qualifications and experience:**

- Experience of Signs of Safety

- Experience of extra-familial harm and contextual safeguarding

- Experience of setting up or developing a new service or model

- Experience of working in a co-located, multi-agency team

**Benefits:**

- Leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays

- Potential hybrid working opportunities

- Health and wellbeing support

- Generous local government pension scheme

- Range of discount schemes across leisure and culture

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## Skills

### Required
- social work
- child protection
- leadership
- multi-agency working
- risk management

### Nice to have
- Signs of Safety
- extra-familial harm
- contextual safeguarding
- service development
- co-located multi-agency team

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