Service Manager

Are you an inspirational leader with a passion for improving the lives of children, young people and families?

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:

As a service manager you will lead services and manage staff across our family hubs and early support and prevention teams. Halton Family Hubs and Early Help Services support children and young people from birth to age 19 (or up to 25 for young people with special educational needs and disabilities). Bringing together council, health and community services, Family Hubs ensure that children, young people and families can access the right support, at the right time, in the right place.

Our Family Hubs and Early Help Services include maternity and health visiting support, early years development and play opportunities, family support, parenting programmes, speech and language development, emotional wellbeing support, and targeted help for children with disabilities, additional needs and their families.

Hours: 37hrs

Your Contributions:

We're looking for an experienced and forward thinking Service Manager to provide operational leadership across staff and services working across universal and early support services. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of Early Help in Halton, driving the continued development of our Family Hub model, delivering early support services to provide earliest intervention and to work closely with our family help model delivering services that make a real and lasting difference to local communities

In this influential leadership role, you'll provide strategic and operational direction for our Team Around the Family service, leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, inclusive and effective support. You'll champion innovation and continuous improvement, oversee budgets and commissioned services, promote excellent safeguarding practice, and work collaboratively with partners across health, education and social care to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and families.

We're looking for an experienced leader with a relevant professional qualification and a proven track record of leading change, developing high-performing teams and delivering outstanding services within children's services. You'll have a strong understanding of early support and prevention, safeguarding and Family Hubs, alongside the ability to build trusted partnerships, influence across organisations and inspire those around you.

If you're ready to take the next step in your leadership career and want to play a key role in transforming services for children and families in Halton, we'd love to hear from you.

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

• 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 Val Armor – Val.Armor@halton.gov.uk - +441515117702.

Interviews are expected to take place W/C 28th September.

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!