Advanced Practitioner (MASH)

Advanced Practitioner (MASH)

London Borough of Havering

Contract: Permanent

Pay - £54,267 to £58,461 per annum subject to final confirmation with an additional Market Supplement (MS) of £4,000

The London Borough of Havering is looking to recruit an Advanced Practitioner to lead and oversee the day-to-day service delivery of the integrated front door / multi-agency

Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and the Family Intervention Service, ensuring the service functions runs smoothly and to a high professional standard in line with good practice and guidance. The post holder will lead and direct work/practice that positively improves outcomes for children, young people and their

families in Havering.

If successful in your application for the role of Advanced Practitioner (MASH) for the London Borough of Havering, you will/will be:

• Responsible for delivering effective, inclusive leadership and management of the services, ensuring high quality services against local and national indicators and targets.
• Promote and govern excellent face-to-face practice across the service, ensuring purposeful work is undertaken with children, young people, and families in conjunction with other social care teams and multi-agency partners
• Take a leading role with the Assistant Director of Early Help and Partnerships in the continuous improvement of the MASH and Family Intervention Service based on performance, risk, and demand.
• Responsible for ensuring practice is in line with current legislation and relevant guidance so that high quality, effective, assessments, plans and interventions are delivered to timescales, to meet children and family’s assessed needs and improve outcomes. This includes leading and advising on the management of cases that pose significant risk, where there are complex needs and/or attract a high profile.
• Represent the service at multi-agency meetings, boards, and/or committees as required and positively manage, review, and evaluate data compliance, ensuring that high-quality administration and record-keeping is maintained.
• Has responsibility for £500,000 budgets within the relevant services, ensuring high quality, value for money services including in-house and commissioned providers. This includes contributing to budget setting, budget monitoring, and delivery within budget targets, including the Section 17 budget and MASH budget.
• To take lead responsibility for specific areas of practice and strategic development relevant to the service, including but not limited to Children’s legal planning and Havering Safeguarding Children’s Partnership. This involves maintaining engaged and effective multi-agency, collaborative working relationships across the partnership to ensure services are utilised appropriately.
• Deputise for the Assistant Directors, and/or Director of Starting Well as and when required, including attendance at multi-agency meetings, boards, and/or committees as required.
• Identify areas of improvement and deliver training to the services. Support the development and delivery of the Starting Well plan, embedding the vision, values, and strategic objectives for children and young people, their parents, and carers.
• Lead on the development of relevant strategies, policies, procedures, programmes, and projects in line with legislation and good practice. .
• Ensure that all supervisions and Performance Development Reviews are completed

within timescale.

As one of the greenest boroughs in London, resourcefulness is in our nature. We don’t wait to be told, we take the initiative. We face the future head-on, embracing new challenges with open minds and fresh ideas. There’s lots of opportunities to progress here, and if you seize them we’ll support you all the way. Choose Havering and see the difference you’ll make to the people that live, work and learn here.

From caring for those who need it most, to ensuring our highways and streets are safe, providing a roof over the heads of our residents, providing excellent customer service or, enhancing our digital services for staff and residents, there are so many ways you can make a positive influence here. And, whether you’re outdoorsy, people-focused or analytical, we have a role that’s right for you.

Please view Job Profile here

The London Borough of Havering is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates who declare that they have a disability in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 and meet the essential criteria as specified in the Job Profile will be guaranteed an interview.

Priority consideration on all advertised roles will be given to London Borough of Havering Redeployees.

The London Borough of Havering is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Please be aware that a Disclosure and Barring Scheme (DBS) check will be required for any position with access to these groups under the provision of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

In addition, the Authority reserves the right to request employees undertake a basic disclosure check (Disclosure Scotland) where required for the role this includes anyone who has access to (or information obtained directly from) a government database, or has a GCSX account. These posts will be required to have a Basic Disclosure Scotland check as per the requirements of BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standards).

Pay - £54,267 to £58,461 per annum subject to final confirmation with an additional Market Supplement (MS) of £4,000

The closing date for the receipt of applications is 14^th September 2025, however, interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early.

Should you require any help or advice with your online application, please contact the Recruitment Helpdesk on 01708 432770