Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT) Lead Nurse | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Posting date:	18 March 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£55,690 - £62,682 pa pro rata
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	17 April 2026
Location:	Walsall, WS2 9PS
Company:	Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7823704/407-CORP-7823704

Summary

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.
• Use strong interpersonal, negotiation, and partnership skills to achieve effective multi-agency collaboration.


· 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.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities.

A new Urgent Emergency Care Centre was opened in March 2023. The two-storey development has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity and has provided almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.

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


This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Apr 2026