Health Improvement Specialist - Training Development

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:

Working within the Public Health Directorate, the Health Improvement Team provide a variety of services to the residents of Halton, encouraging and facilitating them to make healthier lifestyle choices. This includes the creation and delivery of training sessions to both residents and businesses across the borough.

Hours: 37 per week

Your Contributions:

As a Health Improvement Specialist – Training Development, your focus will be supporting the health and wellbeing of the people of Halton by developing and delivering training sessions throughout the borough. This will include the design and creation of training sessions for the public, as well as income-generating training sessions to be delivered in workplaces and organisations. You will also develop and maintain public health information and support structures, ensuring staff and community groups receive training (where required) to enable them to work across the community. You will continue this support by working with Health Champions to deliver health improvement information and campaigns.

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 Stephen Purcell (stephen.purcell@halton.gov.uk / 0151 511 5386

Interviews will take place on 6th August 2025 (subject to change).

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!