Team Manager - Safeguarding & Reviewing (MACPT)

Bradford Children and Families Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced annual leave

Local Government pension

Family-friendly policies

Health & wellbeing support

Professional development

Job summary

Bradford Children and Families Trust is seeking a MACPT Team Manager to lead a multi-agency child protection team. You will provide expert leadership, oversee safeguarding decisions, and coordinate responses to all forms of significant harm to children.

Collaboration with professionals across social care, police, health, and education is essential. The role emphasizes restorative and relational practice, staff development, and ensuring timely, proportionate responses to risk.

Qualifications

• A recognised Social Work qualification and current registration with Social Work England.
• Substantial post-qualifying experience within statutory children's social care.
• Experience of working at, or operating at, Team Manager level within children's safeguarding services.
• Advanced knowledge of child protection legislation, statutory guidance, safeguarding practice frameworks, and multi-agency safeguarding arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, oversight, and professional challenge to support high standards of child protection practice.
• Oversee the quality of specialist consultation and advice across the partnership to support Family Help.
• Promote meaningful engagement with children, families, and carers through restorative and strengths-based practice.
• Lead safeguarding responses relating to extra-familial harm, exploitation, grooming and serious youth violence.
• Monitor performance, caseloads, service demand, and resource allocation to ensure safe and effective practice.

Skills

Social work leadership

Child protection knowledge

Team management

Multi-agency working

Education

Social Work qualification

Job description

Job Introduction

Working for the Bradford Children and Families Trust offers the opportunity to work with some great people who are passionate about delivering change in a city whose culture offers as much diversity as it's geography. You can make a real difference to families and children and be an active part in delivering the service Bradford families should receive.We are fully committed to equal opportunities, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT), a specialist safeguarding service at the heart of Bradford's child protection arrangements. As a MACPT Team Manager you will work within the Multi- Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT), providing expert leadership and oversight in identifying, assessing and responding to all forms of significant harm to children, including intra-familial abuse, extra-familial harm and harm experienced online. Working as part of a co-located multi-agency team comprising professionals from social care, police, health, education and other safeguarding partners, the MACPT Team Manager plays a pivotal role in managing child protection decision-making, joint investigations and ensuring timely, proportionate and effective responses to risk. Our strategic vision and values are upheld across the Trust, fostering a reliable and supportive environment for both staff and the children in our care.Our approach is rooted in restorative and relational practice, fostering trust, mutual respect, and meaningful relationships with children, families, and professionals.

You'll also:

• Provide leadership, oversight, and professional challenge to support high standards of child protection practice.
• Oversee the quality of specialist consultation and advice across the partnership to support Family Help.
• Promote meaningful engagement with children, families, and carers through restorative and strengths based practice.
• Lead safeguarding responses relating to extra-familial harm, exploitation, grooming and serious youth violence.
• Monitor performance, caseloads, service demand, and resource allocation to ensure safe and effective practice.

To be successful in this role you will need:

• A recognised Social Work qualification and current registration with Social Work England.
• Substantial post-qualifying experience within statutory children's social care, including a minimum of three years' experience in child protection and safeguarding practice at a senior level.
• Experience of working at, or operating at, Team Manager level within children's safeguarding services.
• Advanced knowledge of child protection legislation, statutory guidance, safeguarding practice frameworks, and multi-agency safeguarding arrangements.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to motivate, develop, support, and hold staff accountable for performance and outcomes.

You'll also be joining an organisation that truly values its people, offering a range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and work-life balance, including:

• Enhanced annual leave allowance, please refer to the benefits booklet
• Excellent Local Government pension
• Family-friendly policies and enhanced parental leave
• Health & wellbeing support, including Occupational Health and counselling
• Professional development and career progression opportunities

For full details of our benefits, please see the attached 'Our Benefits' brochure.

Bradford Children and Families Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment.

If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history prior to interview.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check including a check against the Children's barred list, will be carried out on preferred candidates.

To arrange an informal discussion, please contactHelen Cliffe [e-mail] Iqbal [e-mail]

Closing Date:29th November 2026

Interviews: Will take place week beginning 7th December 2026