Assistant Facility Manager

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:

We currently have an opportunity for an Assistant Facility Manager to join our team at Halton Leisure Centre. This role will support the Facility Manager to ensure a safe and friendly service is provided to all customers. This includes staff supervision, health and safety, customer care and security.

More specific responsibilities include:

• Ensure pool user safety through vigilant supervision, administering first aid, pool rescues, and resuscitation as needed.
• Follow Health and Safety procedures, conduct pool water and equipment safety tests, and perform cleaning duties.
• Oversee user activities to prevent injury, misuse, or damage, and maintain a professional, friendly customer approach.
• Set up and dismantle equipment for activities, ensuring facilities and equipment are cleaned, maintained, and reported for repairs.
• Support the Facility Manager with operations, including stock receipt, plant maintenance, staff monitoring, and emergency plan activation.

Hours:

Hours of work will consist of any 5 of 7 days to meet the business needs. The rota will include the shift patterns below:

Morning: 05:45am – 14:15pm
Afternoon: 14:00pm – 22:15pm
Saturday/Sunday: 07:30am – 16:45pm

Your Contributions:

For this role, it is essential that you have the following qualification:, National Pool Lifeguard Qualification.

It is desirable that you also hold a Pool Plant Operators Certificate.

In addition you will have:

• Worked as a lifeguard in a public leisure facility.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Health and Safety policies, including Risk Assessments, NOPs, EAPs, COSHH, Pool Plant, and operational procedures.
• Demonstrated understanding of excellent customer care practices.
• Familiar with leisure centre rules, regulations, and bylaws.

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
• Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme.

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 Chris Jones – chris.jones@halton.gov.uk

Interviews will take place on W/C 15th September 2025.

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!