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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