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:

Our dedicated 16+ Employment to Education (E2E) Team delivers careers-focused support, tracking the education and employment activities of young people aged 16 to 18 and up to 25 with an Education Health and Care plan (EHCP). This information is reported monthly to the Department for Education.

We provide targeted advice and guidance to young people who are not in employment, education, or training (NEET), as well as those at risk of becoming NEET, encouraging them to engage in education, training, or employment opportunities.

The team are primarily based at Rutland House with flexibility for hybrid/agile working.

Hours: 22.2hrs per week, Monday – Wednesday

Your Contributions:

Our 16+ E2E Team are seeking to appoint an experienced Young People Case Worker to lead the development, management and implementation of strategies of intervention for a case load of young people who are at risk of, or are not in education, employment or training, or whose activity is not known to the Council.

The cohort of young people are academic age 16- & 17-year-olds, and those up to 25-years-old with an open EHCP. Young People Case Workers also support some pupils in Year 11 who are at risk of not progressing into Post 16 education or training.

Some of the main responsibilities of the role include:

- Assessing the needs of individuals to determine the best intervention to progress each young person to- Making referrals to other services or agencies, who will work directly with the young person

- Communicating with the young people and their families via telephone, email and messaging- Completing home visits or attending meetings with young people as required

- Liaising with other services and maintaining records

This role forms part of Halton Borough Council’s strategy to meet our statutory duties in relation to Raising the Participation Age legislation and you will contribute to the development, promotion, implementation and evaluation of the team’s work and taking a lead on areas of work that support the Team.

It is essential that you have a Level 6 qualification in a relevant field of service or management and experience of managing an area of work within services to support young people.

Our Offer:

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

• Agenerous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service

• 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 Háf Bell - Haf.Bell@halton.gov.uk - 0151 511 7255.

Interviews are expected to take place on 5th May 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!