Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Lead Nurse - Sandwell in West Bromwich

Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Lead Nurse - Sandwell

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Main area Safeguarding Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract 16 months (Secondment fixed term ends 26th March 2028.) Hours Full time Job ref 381-CO-8132488

Site Sandwell Health Campus Town West Bromwich Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 04/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 11/11/2026

Here at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust we’re committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all parts of the community. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities whilst employing people to our organisation who meet our Trust values of ambition, respect and compassion. With the opening of our new hospital, Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, it’s the coming together of expertise from every corner of our organisation and a show of our commitment to provide better healthcare and create more jobs and so much more. We at the Trust actively encourage Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) and disabled applicants, as well as members of the armed forces community and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce.

Job overview

Exciting Secondment Opportunity (end date 26th March 2028)

Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Nurse

Are you passionate about safeguarding children and making a lasting difference to the lives of vulnerable children and families? We have an exciting 2-year secondment opportunity to join our Families First Programme as a Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Nurse.

The Families First Programme is a UK Government-led initiative transforming children's social care by providing earlier, integrated and holistic support to vulnerable children and their families. The programme focuses on strengthening family help, enhancing multi-agency child protection, and harnessing the support of family networks to improve outcomes and help children remain safe at home.

As the MACPT Nurse, you will provide expert health knowledge within the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team, supporting high-quality risk assessments and contributing to a deeper understanding of complex family needs. Working collaboratively with partners across Sandwell, you will help ensure a holistic approach to safeguarding, build strong strategic relationships, and support multi-agency colleagues to navigate health systems, ensuring the best possible outcomes for children and families.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated practitioner looking to broaden their safeguarding expertise, influence system-wide practice, and contribute to the transformation of children's services.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

• Provide specialist safeguarding and child protection expertise within the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT).
• Work collaboratively with health, social care, education, police and other partners to support children and families with complex safeguarding needs.
• Lead and contribute to high-quality risk assessments, ensuring a holistic approach to safeguarding and improving outcomes for children.
• Develop and implement safeguarding policies, procedures and best practice in line with local and national guidance.
• Deliver safeguarding training, supervision and professional advice to colleagues and partner agencies.
• Analyse safeguarding data, undertake audits and contribute to quality improvement initiatives, ensuring continuous service development.
• Prepare and present reports to safeguarding groups, governance meetings and partnership boards.
• Build and maintain effective strategic partnerships to strengthen multi-agency working and influence service development.
• Promote a culture of learning, innovation and continuous improvement through research, audits and learning from safeguarding reviews.
• Act as a visible professional leader and role model, supporting staff development and ensuring high standards of safeguarding practice.
• Act as an ambassador for Sandwell Health Economy.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to "Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population." It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

As the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Nurse, you will provide expert safeguarding leadership and specialist health advice within the Families First Programme. You will work collaboratively with multi-agency partners to support complex child protection cases, contribute to high-quality risk assessments, and ensure children and families receive coordinated, person-centred care.

You will play a key role in developing safeguarding practice, influencing policy, delivering training and supervision, leading quality improvement initiatives, and using data, audits and learning reviews to enhance outcomes for children. Working across organisational boundaries, you will build strong partnerships, promote innovation, and provide professional leadership to support the continuous development of safeguarding services.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape practice, influence system-wide change, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of vulnerable children and families across Sandwell.

Person specification

• Experience in Safeguarding - Child Protection
• Study at degree level
• Knowledge of child protection legislation and able to apply to practise.
• Active NMC registration
• Worked collaboratively with partners.
• Experience with report writing and presentation in multi partner meetings
• Able to demonstrate applied knowledge to practise.
• Safeguarding Supervision Qulaification

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond".

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

• Better protect elective / planned care service delivery across the system by organising on a 'hot and cold' arrangement
• Consider the optimal use of resources through consolidation and specialisation, and
• Seek to reduce unwarranted variance, level up / standardise care through a 'Networked Service Solution' approach across the four sites

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly acrossthefour partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.

As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department by joining our Green Impact (opens in a new tab) programme.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Karen Cope Job title Health Coordinator Families First Programme Email address karen.cope@nhs.net Telephone number 07553522383 Additional information

Working Hours

Monday to Friday 9-5 (excluding bank holidays)

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