MASH & MACPT Health Team Manager

Job summary

The post holder will provide highly specialised clinical, professional and operational leadership for the health contribution to the Gloucestershire Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT).

They will manage and develop the MASH and MACPT health function, provide expert safeguarding advice to internal and external partners, contribute to strategic safeguarding priorities, and lead quality assurance, service improvement, workforce development and performance oversight across the service. You will use your local knowledge of Gloucestershire and establish an understanding of patterns of significant harm in the local area and of agency responses.

They will provide clinical and operational leadership of health safeguarding contribution within the Gloucestershire Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT)

Main duties of the job

They will oversee the health element of the countywide roll out of the MACPTs in Gloucestershire, including its interface with existing MASH Health arrangements.

The post holder will line manage the MACPT Safeguarding Specialist Practitioners and the MASH Health Co-ordinator.

The role will ensure that children, young people and families receive timely, proportionate and effective safeguarding responses through high-quality information sharing, risk analysis, professional challenge, clinical decision-making and multi-agency partnership working.

The post holder will work autonomously within professional and organisational governance arrangements, exercising advanced judgement in complex, sensitive and contentious safeguarding situations.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Details

Date posted

11 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

327-26-649

Job locations

Edward jenner court

1010 Pioneer Avenue, Hucclecote

Gloucester

GL3 4AW

United Kingdom

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