At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a dynamic team ensuring effective child protection responses and safeguarding practices.
- Company: Join the London Borough of Hounslow, committed to excellent services and community support.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, diverse workplace, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team dedicated to safeguarding and community well-being.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in children's lives while working in a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: Extensive experience in social work and strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60573 - 66378 £ per year.
Location: London Borough of Hounslow
Salary: 60,573 - 66,378 per year
Employment: Full time
Category: Social Work
Posted: 2026-08-08
Valid to: 2026-09-06
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Employer: London Borough of Hounslow
About us at Hounslow: We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
Our Benefits: If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits.
About The Role: This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Multi Agency Child Protection Team as a Team Manager.
PURPOSE OF ROLE: To lead and manage the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT), ensuring that children who are subject to statutory child protection enquiries and investigations receive a high-quality, timely and effective multi-agency response that safeguards them and improves outcomes for them and their families.
- To ensure MACPT operates in line with the expectations of the Families First Partnership programme.
- To provide strong practice leadership, management oversight and reflective supervision to six Lead Child Protection Practitioners.
- To establish effective working relationships with the MACPT multi-agency practitioners within the team.
- To promote and govern excellent child protection practice.
- To build and sustain effective strategic and operational partnerships with police, health, education, legal services and other relevant agencies.
- To ensure high standards of performance, quality assurance, recording, information sharing and compliance.
- To assist and support the Head of Service in delivering excellent child protection practice.
- To ensure services are provided within set budgets and provide value for money.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In: The Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) is a specialist team bringing together experienced practitioners from different agencies to co-ordinate decision making with respect to child protection matters.
About You: If the points below reflect your leadership style, experience and commitment to safeguarding we welcome your application:
- You bring extensive experience in statutory social work and have developed specialist knowledge relevant to Early Help, Prevention and Child Safeguarding.
- You are skilled in managing complex, high volume, and fast paced operational demands.
- You provide robust supervision, mentoring, and practice oversight to staff.
Essential For this Role: Enhanced DBS is required for this Role.
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact: Interviews for this job will be held 6th September 2026.
Team Manager (MACPT) employer: London Borough of Hounslow
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Contact Details:
London Borough of Hounslow Recruitment Team
