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We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

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About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Multi Agency Child Protection Team as a Team Manager.

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

To lead and manage the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT), ensuring that children who are subject to statutory child protection enquiries and investigations receive a high-quality, timely and effective multi-agency response that safeguards them and improves outcomes for them and their families.

To ensure MACPT operates in line with the expectations of the Families First Partnership programme, including a seamless system of help, support and protection, strong multi-agency decision-making, clear interfaces with Family Help and the front door, and effective oversight of statutory child protection work.

To provide strong practice leadership, management oversight and reflective supervision to six Lead Child Protection Practitioners.

To establish effective working relationships with the MACPT multi-agency practitioners within the team, including health and education navigators and the police liaison role.

To promote and govern excellent child protection practice, ensuring timely strategy discussions, effective section 47 enquiries, robust planning and review, purposeful direct work with children and families, and clear risk management in partnership with key agencies.

To build and sustain effective strategic and operational partnerships with police, health, education, legal services and other relevant agencies so that child protection responses are coordinated, evidence-informed and focused on the child’s lived experience.

To ensure high standards of performance, quality assurance, recording, information sharing and compliance, and to contribute to service development, inspection readiness and continuous improvement across Family Help and Protection.

To assist and support the Head of Service in delivering excellent child protection practice through the effective management of a complex, multi-disciplinary team operating within statutory and local safeguarding frameworks.

To ensure services are provided within set budgets and provide value for money.

About The Team You’ll Be Working In

The Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) is a specialist team bringing together experienced practitioners from different agencies to co-ordinate decision making with respect to child protection matters. The team will become a local excellence on Child Protection matters, advising and guiding the wider systems on significant harm. The team will convene all strategy discussions and complete section 47 investigations.

We are seeking experienced and motivated Team Manager within the Multi Agency Child Protection Team, Leading a dynamic and high performing team dedicated to ensuring timely, informed, and child centred decision making. The team work alongside a multi agency collaboration—bringing together social care, education, health, police, and community partners to achieve a holistic understanding of risk and need. This integrated approach enables swift identification of concerns and ensures that children and families receive the right support at the earliest opportunity.

About You

If the points below reflect your leadership style, experience and commitment to safeguarding we welcome your application:

• You bring extensive experience in statutory social work and have developed specialist knowledge relevant to Early Help, Prevention and Child Safeguarding. You use this expertise to provide confident oversight, guide professional curiosity, and support the development of practitioners across the service.

• You are skilled in managing complex, high volume, and fast paced operational demands. You demonstrate strong analytical decision making, professional accountability, and the ability to lead your team in delivering timely, high quality child protection responses.

• You provide robust supervision, mentoring, and practice oversight to staff, promoting reflective thinking, multi agency collaboration, and innovative approaches to prevent escalation of need. You ensure decision making remains child focused, safeguarding led, and fully aligned with statutory guidance and Council policies.

Essential For this Role

Enhanced DBS is required for this Role.

Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact

The key information you need about the role should be in the Role Profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Email: Julia.Kelly@hounslow.gov.uk

Interviews for this job will be held 6th September 2026.