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About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Lead Child Protection Practitioners to join our Multi-Agency Safety Teams, leading high-quality practice for children and families who need us most. We are committed to creating a culture where practice excellence, strong relationships, and continuous learning underpin everything we do, providing a supportive environment where practitioners can thrive and deliver meaningful, lasting change for children and families. As a Lead Child Protection Practitioner, you will deliver a consistently high standard of child-centred, strengths-based and relationship-focused safeguarding practice. You will work in partnership with children, families and professionals, leading on section 47 enquiries, investigations, child protection conferences, and family-led planning, ensuring all work is timely, analytical, and grounded in the lived experience of the child. You will champion approaches that keep children safe, build resilience, and support families to make sustainable change, supported by a strong workforce development programme.

Responsibilities

Deliver a consistently high standard of child-centred, strengths-based and relationship-focused safeguarding practice to children, young people and families.
Work in partnership with children, families and professionals internal and external to the council.
Lead on section 47 enquiries, investigations, child protection (CP) conferences, family-led planning and practice.
Ensure all work is timely, analytical, and grounded in the lived experience of the child.
Champion approaches which keep children safe from harm, build resilience and support families to make sustainable change.
Embed Barnet’s values and practice standards.

Requirements

Strong knowledge of legislation, policy, and safeguarding practice, with the ability to apply this confidently in complex situations.
Excellent communication skills, leading clear, analytical, and impactful multi-agency meetings, investigations, assessments and plans.
A strong track record of improving outcomes for children and families and influencing multi-agency partnerships.
A commitment to relational, strengths-based and restorative practice, ensuring children and families are meaningfully involved.
The ability to lead with integrity, curiosity and compassion, in an environment where staff feel valued, supported and appropriately challenged.
A passion for delivering high-quality, equitable services that recognise and respond to diversity within our communities.
Must hold a recognised social work qualification.
Must be registered with Social Work England.

Skills

Safeguarding practice
Communication skills
Multi-agency meetings
Investigations
Assessments
Planning
Strengths-based practice
Restorative practice
Leadership

Location

Barnet

Work Type

Flexible Working
Part-time
Hybrid working

Experience Level

Lead

Education Level

Recognised social work qualification

Salary/Compensations

10% Recruitment and Retention supplement

Benefits

31 days annual leave, plus public and bank holidays
Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
Comprehensive Flexible Working Policy
Vast range of lifestyle discounts
Broad range of payroll benefits including cycle to work, eye care vouchers, travel and gym membership
Excellent training and development opportunities
Employee well-being training programs including confidential employee assistance

About the Company

Barnet is a borough with much to be proud of, including excellent schools, vibrant town centres, vast green spaces and diverse communities. As a council, we want to build on these strengths for the future, growing and developing as an organisation to meet the challenges facing our borough. We are committed to working with partner organisations and residents to make Barnet even better. Our staff are committed to Our Values: Learning to Improve, Caring, Inclusive, Collaborative – which drive everything we do.

Equal Opportunity

To deliver Barnet Council’s commitment to equality of opportunity in the provision of services, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services the Council delivers.
We value diversity and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
Barnet Council embraces all forms of flexible working (including part-time, compressed hours, and hybrid working) and is committed to offering employees a healthy work-life balance.
Barnet Council is a Disability Confident Committed Employer. We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities.
If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert.
We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process.
We support the access to work scheme.