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About the Role
Join Lambeth Children’s Services and be part of an ambitious Children’s Social Care service improving outcomes for children and families. As part of the Families First Programme, we are building a practice system where relationships are key, working alongside children and families encouraging family-led decision making and offering multi-disciplinary help when needed. We are building on our strengths to further improve our approach to child protection, remodelling our system to create a dedicated Multi-Agency Child Protection Service (MACPS) to have the lead role in keeping children and adolescents safe. This is a specialist role for a qualified and registered social worker with management experience who can provide expert leadership across the team, overseeing thresholds and supporting practice across Section 47 child protection enquiries, strategy discussions, child protection conferences and multi-agency safeguarding activity.
Responsibilities
- Leading and coordinating the team of LCPP’s to oversee Section 47 child protection enquiries across Children’s Services.
- Ensuring thresholds and consistency in LCPP’s chairing strategy meetings, child protection conferences and other complex multi-agency safeguarding discussions.
- Ensuring the team is providing expert consultation, guidance and professional challenge to social workers, managers and partner agencies.
- Supporting LCPP’s to ensure timely, evidence-informed and defensible decision-making where children may be suffering, or are likely to suffer, significant harm.
- Ensuring the team is co-producing plans with families that increase protection and safety planning and improve outcomes for children and young people.
- Promoting high standards of recording, analysis, information-sharing and quality assurance across the child protection pathway.
- Modelling relational, strengths-based, trauma-informed and culturally competent practice with children, families and professionals.
- Help shape the future of practice in Lambeth and influence how MACPT develops over time.
- Test new ideas and approaches and have your voice heard about what works in practice.
Requirements
- A recognised social work qualification and current Social Work England registration.
- Significant management experience in safeguarding.
- Detailed knowledge of child protection legislation, statutory guidance, the London Child Protection Procedures and relevant multi-agency safeguarding processes.
- Experience of chairing or leading complex child protection meetings, including strategy discussions, child protection conferences or risk outside the home meetings.
- Strong risk analysis, professional curiosity and the ability to hold complexity, uncertainty and multiple hypotheses.
- The ability to work collaboratively with families and partners while providing clear professional challenge when needed.
- Commitment to inclusive and culturally competent practice, ensuring anti-discriminatory engagement with children and families.
- This post requires an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory health and work record, and the ability to travel for business purposes where required.
- The majority of time will be spent within the borough working closely with children, families, social workers, managers and multi-agency safeguarding partners.
Skills
- Expertise, confidence and professional curiosity to oversee a team of practitioners leading complex safeguarding decision-making.
- Expert leadership across the team of 7 LCPP’s and 4 multi-agency leads (Health, Police, Education and ROTH).
- Overseeing thresholds and supporting practice across Section 47 child protection enquiries, strategy discussions, child protection conferences and multi-agency safeguarding activity.
- Working alongside partners from police, health, education and wider children’s services.
- Leading and developing the team to ensure children and young people are protected from significant harm and that families receive clear, timely and proportionate intervention.
- Management oversight and assurances around safeguarding procedures.
- Supporting the team in offering consultations, challenge and guidance to social workers and partner agencies.
- Promoting high-quality analysis, defensible decision-making and child-centred planning.
- Supporting high quality work, consistent thresholds, support robust assessment of risk inside and outside the home.
- Ensuring safeguarding responses are relational, trauma-informed, anti-racist, inclusive and proportionate.
- Exercising the local authority’s statutory child protection duties in line with the Children Act 1989, the Children Act 2004, Working Together to Safeguard Children, the London Child Protection Procedures and Lambeth’s local safeguarding arrangements.
- Professional judgement, challenge and partnership working.
Location
- Lambeth
Work Type
- Fixed Term
- Secondment
- Full Time
- Hybrid Working
Experience Level
- Experienced team manager
- Significant operational experience in statutory child protection
- Significant management experience in safeguarding
Education Level
- Qualified and registered social worker
Salary/Compensations
- PO7: £61,686 pa rising in annual increments to £64,938 pa incl. LW
About the Company
- The London Borough of Lambeth is embarking on an exciting period of change as we deliver a series of ambitious Children’s Reforms Programmes – including Families First, Best Start Family Hubs, Best Start in Life and SEND Reforms.
- We strive to help every child thrive and through the reforms we are reshaping our future support for children, young people and families across the borough.