Education Child Protection Practitioner - Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) in Enfield

Enfield are looking to recruit two experienced Education Child Protection Practitioners to join their newly formed Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT). This is a high-impact role at the interface of education and statutory safeguarding, providing authoritative education input to child protection decision-making and helping ensure the right response at the right time for children at risk of significant harm.

The post holders will be co-located with multi-agency partners including health, police, and children's social care, ensuring education safeguarding responsibilities are fulfilled in line with relevant statutory guidance. Accountable to the MACPT Service Managers and Head of Safeguarding and Quality Assurance, the practitioners will be directly line managed by the Assistant Headteacher of the Enfield Virtual School. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing consultation, advice, and guidance to education providers and other partners across the borough when a child comes to the attention of MACPT
• Liaising with senior education leaders and Designated Safeguarding Leads to ensure statutory duties are met and proportionate recognition is given to the additional protective factors that education provides
• Promoting effective partnership working through timely information sharing, appropriate professional challenge, and active engagement in child protection processes
• Strengthening partnership working between education settings and partner agencies including Children's Social Care
• Contributing to service developments within a leadership culture grounded in openness, learning, and shared responsibility

Enfield's vision is to establish a MACPT that is child-centred, compassionate, evidence-informed, and closely aligned with Family Help, Child in Care and Care Leavers Services, ensuring families experience a seamless safeguarding response rather than fragmented intervention. You will be joining a service that has high standards, values professional curiosity, collective accountability, and innovation, creating the conditions for everyone to do their best work to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.

Enfield's Centre of Excellence confirms their commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best, delivering excellent practice to achieve good outcomes for the most vulnerable children and young people. It brings recruitment, professional development, and support into one portal. For more information, please visit https://new.enfield.gov.uk/centreofexcellence/about-us/ .

About you

Enfield are looking for enthusiastic, able, and experienced education leads who are passionate and dedicated to safeguarding and protecting vulnerable children. The successful candidates will bring significant experience from an educational setting and a genuine commitment to achieving positive outcomes for children and young people.

The ideal candidate will:

• Hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Have significant experience of working within an educational setting to protect children at risk of abuse inside or outside of the home
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of statutory safeguarding guidance, including Working Together to Safeguard Children ("March 2026"), Keeping Children Safe in Education ("September 2025"), and the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026
• Have experience of working in partnership with multi‑agency teams including health, police, and children's social care
• Be able to provide authoritative education input to child protection decision‑making
• Demonstrate professional curiosity, collective accountability, and a commitment to innovation and best practice
• Be committed to the wellbeing and protection of vulnerable children and young people

Enfield Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Enfield is committed to building a more talented and diverse workforce. The Council does not see applicants' names or titles during shortlisting, as part of their commitment to fair and inclusive recruitment. Shortlisting is based on responses to the essential and desirable criteria as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification.

About Enfield

Enfield is one of the most diverse parts of London, with all the benefits this brings across our communities, culture, heritage and local economy. It also has incredibly diverse landscapes – from the urban centres of Edmonton, Southgate, Palmers Green and Enfield Town, to rural areas and farmland in the north of the borough.

Based in the bubbling heart of Enfield Town, situated in a modern newly designed service hub, the new office is an environment which supports our smart working policy surrounded by small businesses, bars, restaurants, a buzzing high street and shopping centre. Our brand new high‑tech multiagency office has good transport links into central London and is easily assessable to the M25, A10 and A406.

We are proud of the services we offer to children and families living in the borough and work with partners to ensure children receive the best start in life. We are passionate about improving outcomes and driving up standards and performance. Ofsted has rated our children’s services as GOOD overall, read the full report here

Our offer to you include:

• A rewarding role in an Ofsted rated GOOD children’s services department
• Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• A blend of remote and office based working
• Health and leisure discounts and tax‑free bikes for work.
• Modern purposefully designed working environment in Thomas Hardy House located 5 minutes from the station
• A clear career progression pathway, supported by a comprehensive training programme
• Smart technology assistance including hybrid video conferencing
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Enthusiastic and proactive staff network groups
• 1 month paid sabbatical for children’s social workers

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