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 exciting role will provide support and assistance to several Directors within the Chief Executives Directorate by acting as the first point to which contact with the Directors is made. Support will be provided mainly to the Interim Director of HR and Corporate Affairs and Interim Director of Transformation, but also to the Director of Finance (Section 151) Director of ICT and Director of Legal and Democratic services as required.

The role will provide confidential secretarial and administrative support, organise the Directors diaries and ensures that effective liaison is maintained between the Directors, Councillors, employees, MPs, members of the public and external agencies at all levels.

37 hours per week

Your Contributions:

• To provide a comprehensive and confidential secretarial service including word processing of letters, reports, minutes, memoranda, to be produced from written work or dictation.
• To manage and organise the Directors diaries, in computer or manual format as required.
• To take minutes at internal and external meetings as required involving people at all levels.
• Anticipate the Directors needs and forward planning.
• See Job profile for additional duties and responsibilities.

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 the Interim Director of HR and Corporate affairs – Hayley.hamlett@halton.gov.uk

Interviews will take place on wk. comm. 17th August 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!