Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Lead Nurse

Job overview

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS FOR 1 ROLE;  BASED AT WALSALL HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST WITH CROSS COVER WITH ROYAL WOLVERHAMPTON NHS TRUST

Safeguarding partners are establishing new expert-led Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams (MACPTs) to support local authorities in discharging their Section 47 Children Act 1989 duties. As Wolverhampton and Walsall are pathfinder sites, the MACPTs will include dedicated health resource as part of the test-and-learn approach.

The post holder will work equally across both MACPTs and will: • Act as a visible Lead Named Nurse within the MACPT. • Provide operational health leadership and ensure safe, effective child protection practice. • Work with the FFCP Health Coordinator and Heads of Safeguarding across RWT, WHT and BCHFT. • Model proactive, positive leadership. • Collaborate with ICB, health providers, local authorities, and safeguarding professionals to meet statutory duties. • Support the development and delivery of specialist child protection training with Trust education teams and safeguarding partnerships. • Provide day-to-day child protection advice within the MACPT. • Contribute to internal reviews and Safeguarding Children Practice Reviews. • Maintain high professional standards and drive improvements in patient safety, experience, and service effectiveness. • Offer expert safeguarding advice, analyse complex situations, and make informed recommendations. **PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY**

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring safe and effective child protection practice across health services.
• Enhancing the child, young person and parents experience by ensuring safeguarding systems and processes are in place.
• Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the health organisation’s objectives
• Managing and developing the health performance of the MACPT
• Ensuring there are appropriate reports available which demonstrate MACPT activity to a variety of groups and committees as requested by FFCP Health Coordinator, respective Head of Safeguarding in the Trusts or other stakeholders.
• Use strong interpersonal, negotiation, and partnership skills to achieve effective multi-agency collaboration.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Families First for Children Pathfinder (FFCP) was announced in February 2023 as part of the government’s children’s  social care implementation strategy, Stable homes, built on love. It responds to recommendations from the Independent review of children’s social care, the Child Safeguarding Practice  Review Panel report on child protection in England and the Competitions and Market Authority’s market study of children’s  social care provision. The pathfinder will test delivery of key strategy commitments. The programme is designing and testing radical reforms in a number of local areas, across the following policies: 1. Family help 2. Child protection via Multi-agency Child Protection Teams (MACPT’s) 3. Family network support packages (FNSPs) 4. Safeguarding partners