Multi-Agency Child Protection Team Lead

Kirklees Council; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Kirklees Council is seeking an experienced Team Manager to lead a new Multi-Agency Child Protection Team. You will shape practice, support staff and strengthen partnership working with police, health and education to keep children safe and ensure timely, child-centred responses.

As part of the wider safeguarding system, you will drive service changes, monitor performance and embed Families First reforms in Kirklees while modelling values-driven leadership.

Qualifications

• Qualified and registered social worker with substantial experience in children’s safeguarding and child protection practice.
• Strong leadership, decision-making and relationship-building in multi-agency environments.
• Commitment to staff development and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and support the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team to deliver high-quality, child-centred safeguarding practice.
• Ensure risk is identified, understood and managed proportionately, with clear decision-making and effective management oversight.
• Promote a culture of learning, professional curiosity, reflection and continuous improvement.
• Provide high-quality supervision, support and direction to staff, ensuring workloads are appropriate to skill, experience and capacity.
• Work strategically with internal and external partners to develop seamless multi-agency responses across service boundaries.
• Monitor team and individual performance, ensuring records are accurate, timely and support good decision-making.
• Complete audits, analyse information and put improvement plans in place where needed.
• Contribute to service development, transformation and the implementation of the Families First reforms in Kirklees.
• Ensure that children’s voices, experiences and outcomes remain central to practice and service delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Social work

Child protection

Multi-agency collaboration

Education

Registered social worker

Job description

Kirklees Council is seeking an experienced Team Manager to lead a new Multi-Agency Child Protection Team. You will shape practice, support staff and strengthen partnership working with police, health and education to keep children safe and ensure timely, child-centred responses.

As part of the wider safeguarding system, you will drive service changes, monitor performance and embed Families First reforms in Kirklees while modelling values-driven leadership.