Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Lead Nurse - Sandwell

Job overview

Exciting Secondment Opportunity (end date 26th March 2028)

Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Nurse

Are you passionate about safeguarding children and making a lasting difference to the lives of vulnerable children and families? We have an exciting 2-year secondment opportunity to join our Families First Programme as a Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Nurse.

The Families First Programme is a UK Government-led initiative transforming children's social care by providing earlier, integrated and holistic support to vulnerable children and their families. The programme focuses on strengthening family help, enhancing multi-agency child protection, and harnessing the support of family networks to improve outcomes and help children remain safe at home.

As the MACPT Nurse, you will provide expert health knowledge within the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team, supporting high-quality risk assessments and contributing to a deeper understanding of complex family needs. Working collaboratively with partners across Sandwell, you will help ensure a holistic approach to safeguarding, build strong strategic relationships, and support multi-agency colleagues to navigate health systems, ensuring the best possible outcomes for children and families.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated practitioner looking to broaden their safeguarding expertise, influence system-wide practice, and contribute to the transformation of children's services.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

• Provide specialist safeguarding and child protection expertise within the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT).
• Work collaboratively with health, social care, education, police and other partners to support children and families with complex safeguarding needs.
• Lead and contribute to high-quality risk assessments, ensuring a holistic approach to safeguarding and improving outcomes for children.
• Develop and implement safeguarding policies, procedures and best practice in line with local and national guidance.
• Deliver safeguarding training, supervision and professional advice to colleagues and partner agencies.
• Analyse safeguarding data, undertake audits and contribute to quality improvement initiatives, ensuring continuous service development.
• Prepare and present reports to safeguarding groups, governance meetings and partnership boards.
• Build and maintain effective strategic partnerships to strengthen multi-agency working and influence service development.
• Promote a culture of learning, innovation and continuous improvement through research, audits and learning from safeguarding reviews.
• Act as a visible professional leader and role model, supporting staff development and ensuring high standards of safeguarding practice.
• Act as an ambassador for Sandwell Health Economy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

As the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Nurse, you will provide expert safeguarding leadership and specialist health advice within the Families First Programme. You will work collaboratively with multi-agency partners to support complex child protection cases, contribute to high-quality risk assessments, and ensure children and families receive coordinated, person-centred care.

You will play a key role in developing safeguarding practice, influencing policy, delivering training and supervision, leading quality improvement initiatives, and using data, audits and learning reviews to enhance outcomes for children. Working across organisational boundaries, you will build strong partnerships, promote innovation, and provide professional leadership to support the continuous development of safeguarding services.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape practice, influence system-wide change, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of vulnerable children and families across Sandwell.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.