St Helens Borough Council

Making a difference in St Helens

St Helens Borough Council is passionate and ambitious about our borough, our workforce and the children and adults we support. With an exciting growth agenda, we are supporting our economy to offer the best quality of life to our thriving communities.

Why consider working for St Helens Borough Council? We have some great employee benefits including flexible and agile working and great holiday entitlements. Take a look at our benefits and wellbeing offer via the tab below.

What is it like to work at St Helens Borough Council? Take a look at our values and commitment to working together on our Ways of Working tab below.

What are the council’s priorities? We are striving to make a difference with our residents, for our residents. Our St Helens Together tab highlights our key priorities and our ‘With You, For You’ video highlighting the impact that we have on our communities.

St Helens Borough Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation.

We have Disability Confident Leader status and guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job. Our commitment to support our armed forces through the Armed Forces Covenant means that we will also guarantee an interview to anyone with an armed forces background if they meet the essential criteria.

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Benefits & Wellbeing

Working at St Helens Borough Council there are great opportunities to develop professionally, as well as a range of attractive benefits and working arrangements, including:

Agile/flexible working
Competitive salaries
Great annual leave entitlement and the ability to purchase additional leave
The Local Government Pension Scheme and option to take AVCs
Relocation costs if you plan to move to live and work in St Helens
Employee benefits portal offering retail and leisure discounts
Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
Training and career development opportunities

Our Wellbeing Offer includes:

A comprehensive package of mental health and wellbeing support, training, guidance, and toolkits
Our Employee Assistance Programme
Discounted Go Active gym membership
Cycle to Work scheme
Healthcare cash plans

Ways of Working

This is an exciting, pivotal time for St Helens Borough Council so we’re looking for people with the energy, enthusiasm, and resilience to help take us forward in line with our vision and values.

Working at St Helens Borough Council you can expect:

a positive, inclusive, and flexible workplace culture
open, honest, fair, and consistent leadership
to care for your dignity and well-being
to encourage you to share your views, listen and take appropriate action
to work with you, enabling you to think differently and be the pioneers
to value and recognise your contribution
to invest in you, providing opportunities to develop and grow
to be proud of you and our borough

We have Staff Communities including a Culture Champions community, a community of Mental Health First Aiders and a Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic community.

We also seek to recognise the great work that our employees and teams do with our annual Values in Practice (VIP) Awards with categories such as employee of the year, rising star, collaboration award, innovation award plus many more.

St Helens Together

St Helens borough is a place we’re extremely proud of, with a strong identity and cultural history, rooted in our world-famous industrial heritage.

Situated in Merseyside and proud to be part of the Liverpool City Region, it is home to over 185,000 people with 4,800 businesses based within the borough. Our strategic position at the heart the North West provides excellent connections to and from our borough. Its semi-rural nature, with over 65% of the area green belt, makes for a very attractive place to live, with strong growth in new housing and increasing numbers of people choosing to live here.

Here at St Helens Borough Council, we provide over 700 services to the residents of St Helens. Watch our With You, For You video which tells the story about how the council and its employees work hard every day to deliver an excellent service for our residents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQ5DtkLMj0

Our Borough Strategy (St Helen Borough's Strategy) outlines our priorities and ambitions up to 2030.

The scale of our ambitions and our #StHelensTogether approach has meant there have been positive improvements to the services that we provide including our Children’s Services achieving an Ofsted ‘Good’ rating at a recent inspection, the ambitious regeneration plans for our town centres and the economic growth in our key industries.

We are a council that is full of energy and focus, with a passionate and committed workforce and an exciting future ahead.

St Helens Borough Council

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