Our Story:

Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring three 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:

This role is part of Halton Health Improvement Team within Public Health and is accountable to the Health Improvement Principal Manager. The post-holder will be responsible for managing the well-established ‘Start Well’ team to deliver programmes and initiatives to promote a healthy start for children, including breastfeeding, and support families with health and wellbeing.

You will provide strategic leadership and expertise on child and families healthy lifestyles, working alongside other Practice Managers within the wider Health Improvement Team, and working closely with partners through Halton Family Hubs.

You will be based at Runcorn Town Hall, with the option of flexible hybrid working.

Hours: 37 per week

Your Contributions:

• Supporting effective partnerships working across statutory, voluntary, and independent sectors to identify and mobilise appropriate resources

• Identify research opportunities and develop new initiatives with partner organisations and community groups to improve and extend services, particularly for identified target groups and priority areas

• Provide specialist health improvement advice to schools, early years settings, primary and secondary care teams, local authorities, and community groups, using evidence-based practice.

• You will be accountable to the Health Improvement Principal Manager for effective communication within the service area, identifying resource needs, and contributing to the strategic planning and development of services

• Ensuring services reflect population needs and are inclusive, considering age, race, culture, disability, gender, and sexuality

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 Rebekah Walsh Rebekah.Walsh@halton.gov.uk for further details or to arrange a call to discuss the role.

Interviews will take place on WC 31st August

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! .