Senior Team Lead, Multi-Agency Child Protection

New Start; Kirklees; Remote; GBP 53,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Kirklees Metropolitan Council is seeking a Team Manager to lead the new Multi-Agency Child Protection Team in Kirklees. The post requires a qualified and registered social worker with extensive safeguarding experience, capable of strategic leadership and effective multi‑agency collaboration.

You will report to the Service Manager and Head of Service, shaping practice and embedding service changes that improve outcomes for children and families.

Qualifications

• Qualified and registered social worker with substantial experience in children’s safeguarding and child protection.
• Effective and supportive leader, able to inspire confidence and develop others.
• Strong professional judgment, decision-making and ability to work in a complex multi-agency environment.

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 Families First reforms in Kirklees.
• Ensure that children’s voices, experiences and outcomes remain central to practice and service delivery.

Job description

Kirklees Metropolitan Council is seeking a Team Manager to lead the new Multi-Agency Child Protection Team in Kirklees. The post requires a qualified and registered social worker with extensive safeguarding experience, capable of strategic leadership and effective multi‑agency collaboration.

You will report to the Service Manager and Head of Service, shaping practice and embedding service changes that improve outcomes for children and families.