Senior Lead Child Protection Practitioner - Multi-Agency Child Protection Team

Senior Lead Child Protection Practitioner - Multi-Agency Child Protection Team

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work - the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We'll be celebrating all this and more as the "rebel borough" when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey's people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

Haringey is building a Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT), and we need senior leaders of practice to make it work. As a Senior Lead Child Protection Practitioner, you will lead a group of Lead Child Protection Practitioners (LCPPs), set the standard for high-support, high-challenge practice, and make sure that multi-agency decisions are strong, consistent, and child-centred.

You will also be a bridge between day-to-day practice and our wider safeguarding priorities, helping us get the new model right as we grow it across the borough. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading, supporting, and challenging the LCPPs in your cluster, including regular reflective supervision
• Quality assuring child protection decisions, strategy discussions, conferences, and plans to ensure practice is consistent and defensible
• 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 in the team, and with MASH, Family Help, and specialist teams
• Using data, audit, and feedback from children and families to drive improvement and help measure the impact of the team

About the Team

The MACPT brings social work, police, health, and education expertise together in one team, based at 48 Station Road, Wood Green. The team leads strategy discussions and section 47 enquiries, chairs child protection conferences, and oversees child protection plans. MASH remains the front door for referrals. The team is being introduced in phases, one cluster at a time, learning from each phase as it goes. Each cluster is led by a Senior LCPP working with two LCPPs.

About you

Haringey is looking for a senior child protection practitioner with a track record of leading others, making sound decisions under pressure, and building trust across agencies. The successful candidate will bring substantial experience in statutory child protection and demonstrate a genuine commitment to working in partnership with families and to Haringey's Dignity for All approach.

The ideal candidate will:

• Hold a recognised social work qualification and current registration with Social Work England
• Have substantial post-qualifying experience in statutory child protection, including section 47 enquiries and child protection conferences
• Have experience of supervising, leading, or managing practitioners, for example as a team manager, assistant team manager, senior practitioner, or child protection advisor
• Have experience of chairing or leading complex multi-agency meetings and influencing partners' decisions
• Have experience of quality assurance, audit, or practice improvement, and of using evidence to change practice
• Possess thorough knowledge of the Children Act 1989, Working Together to Safeguard Children, and the London Child Protection Procedures
• Be able to hold risk with confidence, challenge senior colleagues respectfully, and support others to do the same

The following are desirable but not essential:

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

At Haringey Council, we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work. We recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

About Haringey

Haringey is a vibrant and diverse borough located in the northern part of Greater London. With a rich history, diverse population, and a mix of residential, commercial, and green spaces, Haringey offers a unique and dynamic living experience.

Haringey Council has been through a journey of improvement over the past ten years, with continued aspirations to fulfil the first corporate priority of enabling every child the best start in life. We are looking for social workers that are ready for a fresh challenge, with the ability to make a real difference to the residents of Haringey.

We are investing in creating a better borough for all our residents and bettering the lives of children and young people in Haringey is our first corporate priority. With a population of approximately 250,000 people and a growing population of 0-19-year-olds, we are a diverse and fast-changing borough and tomorrow’s leaders; artists and innovators are busy growing up here.

Haringey is transforming its services for children and young people, and have already made exciting, innovative changes as we strive for excellence in all we do.

Our offer to staff includes:

• Competitive remuneration packages
• Investment in modern technology
• Great Business support and experienced caring Team Managers
• Haringey Academy - invests in continuous skills and learning development
• Access to clinical support from Family Psychology Mutual, Anna Freud and Tavistock
• Travel Season ticket loans
• A commitment to achieving excellence for our children

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