Job Title: Senior Lead Child Protection Practitioner
Salary: £55,413 – £58,618 (includes market factor)
Contract Type: Full time, permanent
Essential Car User Allowance
Full reimbursement of Social Work England registration fee
The Senior Lead Child Protection Practitioner (Senior LCPP) provides senior operational and strategic leadership across all Lead Child Protection Practitioners (LCPPs) within the Multi‑Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT). The postholder holds responsibility for ensuring consistently high standards of statutory safeguarding practice, robust threshold decision‑making, and cross‑system alignment with local and national safeguarding expectations. The Senior LCPP oversees, coordinates, and quality‑assures the work of all LCPPs, ensuring consistency, strong reflective practice, and a culture of high support and high challenge. They lead complex and high‑risk child protection decision‑making, drive continuous improvement, and ensure that multi‑agency working is effective, purposeful, and aligned to the Council’s Families First / Family Help reforms. The role acts as a key bridge between operational practice and senior safeguarding governance, informing strategic priorities while maintaining close oversight of frontline practice and the lived experience of children.
Benefits
- Competitive salaries and a fantastic leave package – starting at 24 days, rising to 32 days with service, plus 8 bank holidays and an extra concessionary day to enjoy.
- Flexible working & career progression
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Staff discounts & salary sacrifice perks
- Free parking & confidential wellbeing support
- Hybrid working model – whether you’re in the office or working from home, we support a balance that fits your personal and family commitments.
Roles involving children or vulnerable adults will require a criminal records check. It’s an offence to apply if you’re barred from working with these groups.
We do not hold a sponsorship licence for visas.
