# 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 56,058 - 59,298 per year
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced child protection practitioner to lead our Multi-Agency Child Protection Team.

As a Lead Child Protection Practitioner, you will make and guide key decisions for children at risk of significant harm, working alongside colleagues from police, health, and education in the same team.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead strategy discussions, bringing partners together to agree whether a section 47 enquiry is needed and how it will be carried out.

- Oversee section 47 enquiries and make decisions with partner agencies about children who need protection.

- Chair initial and review child protection conferences, ensuring plans are clear, specific, and developed with families.

- Keep oversight of children in your cluster who are subject to child protection processes, including harm outside the home.

- Provide consultation, guidance, and constructive challenge to social workers, team managers, and Family Help colleagues.

- Work closely with police, health, and education colleagues in the team and with wider specialists, including domestic abuse, housing, and CAMHS.

- Help measure the team's impact, looking at the quality and timeliness of decisions, families' experience, and the impact for partners.

- Contribute to practice guidance, learning, and induction as the model develops.

**Requirements:**

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

- Substantial post-qualifying experience in statutory child protection, including section 47 enquiries and child protection conferences.

- Experience of chairing or leading multi-agency meetings where complex safeguarding decisions are made.

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

- The ability to analyse risk, challenge respectfully and record clearly, and to explain decisions to families and partners.

- A commitment to working in partnership with families and to our Dignity for All approach.

**Desirable:**

- Experience as a child protection chair or advisor, independent reviewing officer, senior practitioner, or team manager.

- Experience of Signs of Safety, or a real interest in working this way.

- Experience of extra-familial harm and contextual safeguarding.

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

**What We Offer:**

- A salary of GBP 56,058 - 59,298 per year

- A leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays

- Potential hybrid working opportunities

- Health and wellbeing support

- A generous local government pension scheme

- A range of discount schemes across leisure and culture

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## Skills

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

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

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