Lead Child Protection Practitioner

Overview

In this role you will lead safeguarding practice within the Families First Partnership, embedded in MACPTs to strengthen relationship-based approaches and multi-agency responses. You will chair complex child protection conferences, champion the voice of the child, and ensure timely, evidence-based decisions. You will build strong relationships with families, locality teams, and partner agencies, while providing practice leadership and quality assurance across the partnership. Travel across Derbyshire is required.

Pay / Benefits

• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Employee discounts
• Occupational health and wellbeing services
• In‑house counselling and physiotherapy support
• Cycle to work scheme

Responsibilities

• Chair complex child protection conferences and multi-agency strategy discussions
• Champion participation and the voice of the child in decisions and plans
• Ensure decisions and plans are evidence-based, timely and robust
• Maintain strong relationships with families, locality teams, and partner agencies
• Provide practice leadership and quality assurance across the partnership, including reflective case consultations, audits and performance activity

Key requirements

• relationship-building
• leadership
• communication
• safeguarding
• multi-agency partnership working
• quality assurance and audit

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