Lead Child Protection Practitioner

Lead Child Protection Practitioner focuses on support people with care, daily routines, clinical tasks, or wellbeing according to the role remit.

What the role involves

• Support people with care, daily routines, clinical tasks, or wellbeing according to the role remit.
• Follow safeguarding, medication, documentation, or care-plan requirements where they apply.

Skills and requirements

• Relevant care, clinical, support, registration, DBS, or safeguarding requirements may apply.

Confirmed role details

• HC10 £46,142 - £50,269 plus £5,000 market forces supplement (£51,142 - £55,269).
• Welcome payment: £10,000 (see attached guidance).
• This is a key role at the heart of safeguarding, working with partners to ensure timely, effective, and child-centred responses to risk.
• Provide practice leadership and oversight on complex child protection cases.

Candidate fit

• calm communication, safeguarding awareness, resilience, and respectful support

Additional role context

• Those who indicate in their application that they are a Herefordshire care leaver. This is part of our commitment to supporting young people leaving our care.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children & young people and vulnerable adults.

Known job details

• Pay: £46,142 - £50,269