Lead Child Protection Practitioner

Derbyshire County Council; Derby; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local Government Pension Scheme

Generous annual leave entitlement

Employee discounts

Occupational health and wellbeing

In-house counselling and physiotherapy

Cycle to work scheme

Free parking at most sites

Job summary

Derbyshire County Council is recruiting a Lead Child Protection Practitioner to strengthen relationship-based practice within our MACPTs, working with Family Help Lead Practitioners and Locality social work teams.

The role focuses on chairing conferences and strategy discussions, championing the voice of the child, building strong cross-agency relationships, and providing practice leadership with quality assurance, audits and reflective consultations.

Responsibilities

• Chairing complex child protection conferences and multi-agency strategy discussions, exercising the local authority's statutory child protection decision-making responsibilities.
• Championing participation and the voice of the child, ensuring decisions and plans are evidence-based, timely and robust.
• Ensure strong relationships with families, locality teams and partner agencies.
• Providing practice leadership and quality assurance across the partnership, including reflective case consultations, audit and performance activity.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint to the position of the Lead Child Protection Practitioner (LCPP) within our integrated safeguarding arrangements as part of the Families First Partnership Programme. This role will be embedded within our Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams (MACPT's), working alongside Family Help Lead Practitioners and Locality social work teams. The aim of this role is to strengthen relationship-based practice, multi-agency responses to child protection and to improve outcomes for children and families. The successful applicant will have a primary focus on:

• Chairing complex child protection conferences and multi-agency strategy discussions, exercising the local authority's statutory child protection decision-making responsibilities.
• Championing participation and the voice of the child, ensuring decisions and plans are evidence-based, timely and robust.
• Ensure strong relationships with families, locality teams and partner agencies.
• Providing practice leadership and quality assurance across the partnership, including reflective case consultations, audit and performance activity.

The role will also require regular travel across North and South Derbyshire with duty days at Matlock County Hal. Please note: As the Families First Partnership Programme continues to embed, there may be refinements to the role to ensure our safeguarding arrangements deliver consistent and outstanding practice across the council.

• 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
• Free parking at most sites