Intensive Family Support Worker

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:

The Edge of Care Team is a newly developed service within Halton, designed to provide intensive, relationship-based support to children, young people, and their families at a critical point of need. The team’s primary focus is on preventing family breakdown and reducing the need for children to enter local authority care. Working at the heart of our relationship-based practice model, the Edge of Care Team will deliver timely, responsive, and therapeutic interventions that help families stay together safely. As a key part of Halton’s commitment to positive practice and systemic working, this team will be instrumental in driving better outcomes for children—ensuring they have every opportunity to thrive within their family and community.

Hours: 37hrs per week

Your Contributions:

We are looking for a passionate, nurturing and tenacious professional to join our Edge of Care Team, ‘supporting our children and families staying together’. This will involve you responding to our children and families experiencing acute distress with a primary focus of reducing the likelihood of our children and young people entering Local Authority care. You will work flexibly and swiftly with children, young people and their families / carers, and any relevant agency to ensure risks are mitigated and our children are kept safe.You will demonstrate flexibility and resilience, with strong skills in influencing, negotiating, and developing effective action plans. Excellent communication is essential to this role, so the ability to communicate clearly and confidently—both verbally and in writing—is key

You must be willing to work as part of a rota that includes weekends and out of core hours.

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 Jill Evans – Jill.Evans@halton.gov.uk or Sam Edwards – Sam.Edwards@halton.gov.uk.

Interviews are expected to take place on 21st July 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!