Luton (On-Site)
Contract, Full time
51802 - 54924 GBP / year
37 Hours Per Week
- Job number
- LBC03833
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term / Secondment
- Posting End Date
- 26 May 2025
- Job Area
- Children's Social Care
About the job
Salary: £51,802 - £54,924 a year pro rata plus £5,000 market supplement allowance and £3,203 car benefit allowance a year pro rata
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Fixed Term / Secondment for 1 year
As the Team Manager in our Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), you will play a pivotal role in protecting children and young people across Luton. You’ll be responsible for the operational leadership of MASH, ensuring we deliver a high-quality, seamless, and timely safeguarding response through effective multi-agency collaboration with professionals from Health, Police, Probation, Early Help, and more.
You will manage a team of skilled practitioners, lead on strategic decisions, and be the key point of contact for complex safeguarding issues—providing clear advice, strong leadership, and informed decision-making that supports the best outcomes for children.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Taking overall responsibility for the day-to-day operations of MASH
- Ensuring Luton meets its statutory safeguarding duties and adheres to the LSCB threshold document
- Supporting early intervention by signposting contacts to the right services at the right time
- Leading a team of practitioners and coordinating with partners to deliver consistent and effective safeguarding responses
- Acting as a strategic lead, offering guidance on complex and high-risk cases, including those that may lead to prosecution
This position is available as a secondment opportunity for 1 year. If you are a permanent LBC employee, you must have written approval (an email will suffice) from your manager prior to applying and a copy will need to be submitted with your application. Please note: we will not be able to proceed with your application form without your manager’s permission.
Please note this role does not attract sponsorship.
About you
You are an experienced social care professional with a strong background in working with children and families who require support from social care services. You bring a wealth of expertise in managing sensitive and complex situations with professionalism and integrity.
You will have:
In-depth experience working within children’s social care, with a clear understanding of the needs of vulnerable children and families.
Substantial experience of making complex decisions, gathering and recording highly sensitive information, and evaluating outcomes to ensure safe and effective service delivery.
A strong ability to analyse information, assess risk, and make sound professional judgements to determine appropriate interventions.
You are an accomplished leader who can motivate and develop high-performing teams. You have:
Extensive experience in advising, coaching, supervising, and supporting staff, including carrying out appraisals and managing performance and HR issues.
A proven ability to strategically and operationally lead a MASH team—delegating and overseeing work to maintain high standards and improve performance using relevant data.
Confidence in directing and negotiating with professionals across multi-agency partnerships to ensure the effective use of resources and timely responses.
You will also bring:
In-depth knowledge of legislation, national guidance, and best practice relevant to MASH and safeguarding.
A solid understanding of the legal frameworks and policies that underpin services for children and young people, including data protection and information sharing protocols across agencies.
Your professional insight, leadership, and commitment to collaborative working will ensure children and families receive the right support at the right time.
About us
Our ambitious Luton 2040 Vision – that no-one in Luton will have to live in poverty – is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that our people are remarkable, talented, committed and passionate about serving our residents.
The people of Luton depend heavily on this council – and that means our workforce! Are you ready to realise the remarkable and help us deliver our vision?
We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to developing a workforce that reflects the diversity of our borough
Application process
Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person’s criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority.
Additional information
We offer a range of excellent staff benefits which include:
- From 25 to 32 days’ annual leave: linked to length of service and grade
- Buying annual leave scheme: buy up to 20 days additional annual leave
- Career Pathways: step up in your career or move into a specialist area
- Pension scheme: with generous employer contributions of up to 20.2 per cent (at July 2023) and 3x salary death in service grant
- Generous relocation package: up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility)
- Employee Assistance Programme: a free, 24/7 confidential counselling and wellbeing support service available to all employees, their partner or spouse and dependent children over 16 still living at home
- Work/life balance: flexible working options including working from home where possible. We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements including part-time hours and alternative working patterns
- Training and support: unlimited access to development courses, mentoring and support and clear career pathways
- Staff offers: includes discounts on your MOT, gym and fitness, restaurants and salons
- Arriva Travel Club: great value savings on local bus travel
- Friday Funday Socials - One Friday every 2 months where we encourage our staff to get together to socialise after work