Our Story:

Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring two iconic bridges that connect communities across the River Mersey. Located in Cheshire, Halton boasts excellent transport links between Liverpool and Manchester, as well as close proximity to both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airports.

Our progressive community strategy aims to bring about meaningful, long-term improvements that enhance lives. It’s an exciting time to join us as we develop new policies and transform the way people access services.

We are immensely proud that when asked what’s great about working for Halton, the most popular response from our workforce has been ‘our colleagues’.

Our Team:

The adult safeguarding team is a small friendly team made up of social workers, safeguarding support officer and admin staff. The main duty of the team is to take receipt of the safeguarding and deprivation of liberty safeguard referrals submitted to the local authority, assessing risk, implementing interim safeguarding measures before making a decision around next steps. In addition to this, social workers within the team hold a small case of complex s42 enquiries. We work closely with partner agencies and safeguarding leads. We represent adult social care and several case conferences such as MARAC and MAPPA.

Hours: 37 per week

Your Contributions:

As an advanced practitioner within the Adult Safeguarding Team, you will take an active role in the day to day running of the team, the allocation of tasks and to support with overall team management and in addition, to take on a supervisory/mentoring role of both qualified and unqualified staff within the team.

More specific responsibilities include:

• Work directly with people in highly complex situations assessing the need for social work service including identification of risk and the need for protection, determining the intervention to manage and minimise risk. Comply with the statutory obligations of the Council
• Work independently, to individual and Council priorities and policies, to manage an allocated workload
• Liaise and negotiate with other professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies to gather information relevant to assessment and planning activities and ensure the best possible service is provided
• Prepare for, and attend supervision sessions, staff meetings and events and make use of all available training and developmental opportunities, modelling good practice and setting expectations for others.
• Contribute to the evaluation and developments of services and new ideas by sharing knowledge about theory, skills and practice with other social care staff, professional groups and interested bodies. Provide a professional steer for colleagues and other partners in situations of high complexity.
• Take responsibility, and be accountable for, the development and practice of others, by mentoring social workers, assessing student in practice placements and facilitating the learning and continued professional development of colleagues. Provide reflective practice teaching opportunities by creating a learning environment within the team.
• Provide support, and delegate for, the Practice Manager as required. Offer constructive challenge to enhance service provision and promote innovation.

Our Offer:

Aside from working with a great team, our employees have access to a fantastic range of benefits, including:

• A generous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service with the option to purchase an additional four-days of unpaid leave for our Annual Christmas Closedown
• Membership of our defined benefit, salary-linked Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
• 3 x Salary Life Cover via Local Government Pension Scheme
• Investment in your personal development
• Free Car Parking at HBC sites
• Flexible working arrangements
• Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme.

Next Steps:

At Halton Borough Council, we want all of our candidates to feel well-informed so if you would like to have an informal chat about this role, please contact Katy Goodall 0151 511 8289 or Stephanie Grace 0151 511 8660

Interviews will take place on 26 and 27 March 2026

At Halton Borough Council we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce and a vital part of this is to encourage diversity in all respects. We are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and tailored to best suit the needs and strength of the individual. This includes making adjustments for people with a disability, neurodiversity or with long-term health conditions. If you require accommodations, please reach out during the recruitment process so that we can make this the best possible experience for you – resourcing@halton.gov.uk

Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, please complete your application as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application!