Lead Child Protection Practitioner

Enfield Council; Enfield; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LGPS pension

32 days annual leave

Flexible working

Job summary

Enfield Council is recruiting for a Lead Child Protection Practitioner to join the new MACPT. The role is full-time and salary range £57,375 to £72,777, with interviews planned for w/c 05/10/26.

You will work with education, police and health partners to deliver multi-agency safeguarding and decision-making to protect children. The post reports to MACPT Service Managers and Head of Safeguarding, requiring extensive experience in child protection, Section 47 enquiries and leading safeguarding

Qualifications

• Lead Child Protection Practitioner with significant experience in safeguarding children.
• Experience of multi‑agency child protection processes and national legislation guidance.
• Ability to lead planning and decision-making to prevent and stop harm.

Responsibilities

• Lead the MACPT team meetings and contribute to planning and reviews.
• Identify and respond to actual or likely significant harm in Section 47 enquiries.
• Demonstrate robust decision making and action to protect children and families.

Job description

Reference Number: PEO-002823

Salary: MM2 £57,375 to £72,777

Advert closing date: 23/09/2026

Department: People

Location: Thomas Hardy House

Contract type: Permanent

Division: Safeguarding & Quality Service

Hours Per Week: 36

Contract End Date: Not specified

Interview Date: w/c 05/10/26

Job Description

Join Enfield's Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT)

Enfield are looking to recruit experienced social worker managers/advanced practitioners as Lead Child Protection Practitioners in our newly formed MACPT

MACPT Lead Child protection Practitioner Full-Time Salary Range £57,375 - £72,777

Interviews Planned for W/C 05/10/26

The Enfield Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) is a new model developed in response to national expectations for stronger, more consistent and timely multi-agency child protection decision-making. We are bringing together experienced practitioners from children's social care, police, health and education so that information is shared earlier, thresholds are applied consistently, and decisive protective action is taken when a child is experiencing or is likely to experience significant harm.

Enfield's vision is to establish a MACPT that is child-centred, compassionate, evidence-informed and closely aligned with Family Help, Child in Care and Care Leavers Services, ensuring families experience a seamless safeguarding response rather than fragmented intervention.

The Lead Child protection Practitioners will be accountable to the MACPT Service Managers and Head of Safeguarding, and must have significant experience of working to protect children at risk of abuse inside or outside of the home. Working closely with partners from education, police and health to deliver on all operational aspects of the MACPT, following national legislation and guidance, the local Enfield MACPT Operating Protocol and the local Enfield MACPT Quality Assurance and Outcome Framework.

As a Lead Child Protection Practitioner, you will be expected to meet the Lead Child Protection Practitioner (LCPP) standards from the Department for Education that set out the minimum knowledge and skills LCPPs are expected to have to effectively lead child protection processes. This includes being directly responsible for identifying and responding to actual or likely significant harm, engaging children and families during Section 47 enquiries, formulating the likelihood of significant harm and planning and intervening to prevent and stop actual or likely significant harm.

As a LCPP you will be expected to attend alongside partners the MACPT operational meetings and participate in planning and reviews of the MACPT. You will be required to evidence the success of the MACPT through excellent practice making robust decisions and taking action to prevent and stop child abuse.

We are looking for enthusiastic, able, experienced managers or advanced practitioners who are passionate about the social work profession and dedicated to safeguarding and protecting vulnerable children. You will need to evidence understanding of family safeguarding as this is the strength-based approach underpinning practice in Enfield.

This is a great opportunity to join an excellent service that works together with families to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people. Our leadership culture is grounded in openness, learning and shared responsibility, with a commitment to supporting staff with their wellbeing, alongside professional development and achieving best practice. You will be joining a service that has high standards, values professional curiosity, collective accountability and innovation, creating the conditions for everyone to do their best work to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.

Enfield is committed to supporting staff to develop their skills and you will receive high-quality support from an experienced manager and given opportunities to contribute to service developments.

Enfield's Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best, delivering excellent practice to achieve good outcomes to our most vulnerable children and young people. It brings our recruitment, professional development and support into the one portal for staff to see what we have to offer and how we are supporting them to continue to learn and develop on a professional basis. For more information, please visit https://new.enfield.gov.uk/centreofexcellence/about-us/.

This authority is committed safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

For further information please contact: Anne Stoker Director of Transformation: Children's Services at [e-mail].

Closing date for applications is 16 th September with interviews expected to be held week of 28 th September. If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Debola Olufon at [e-mail].

We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or Statement it will be visible to us. For this reason, we ask that you do not include your name on these documents. Please note it is your responses to the Essential/Desirable criteria, as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification, which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview, therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria in your application/CV.

Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:

• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 3 years of continuous service.
• A blend of remote and office-based working for most roles.
• Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That's why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we'd love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working,

If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.

Certain posts in the Council are 'politically restricted' which means that staff employed in these posts may not undertake political activities either in or outside the workplace and therefore if candidates are affiliated with any political party, we may not be able to proceed with their application.