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.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.