Service Development Officer

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 have two exciting Service Development Officer opportunities to offer on a permanent basis:

• Part-time - 18.5 hours per week £17,706 - £19110 per annum actual
• Part-time - 24 hours per week £22969 - £24791 per annum actual

On your application, please confirm which vacancy you are interested in.

Both roles will join an established team, which provides policy, performance and customer care support to the Council’s Adult Social Care Service. The team is a vital part of the infrastructure in place to ensure that delivery of social care services is commensurate with legislative duties, meets best practice standards, makes effective use of available resources and works for the people of Halton.

Your Contributions:

You will contribute to the development and maintenance of the Council’s Adult Social Care policies and strategies, working with internal and external partners to understand the requirements and deliver on the best outcomes for residents in our Borough.

You will be self-motivated, with excellent communication and organisational skills and have the ability to translate complex information into workable procedures. This will involve being able to manage multiple projects and develop strong working relationships to progress a wide range of adult social care agendas.

Whilst experience of adult social care and/or policy and strategy work would be advantageous, we are primarily looking for someone who has the ability to use their initiative and who has a thorough and methodical approach to their designated workload.

If you feel you have transferable skills and/or are a recent graduate looking to build your work experience, then we would love to hear from you. Please ensure that you demonstrate examples of the required skills within the supporting statement of your application.

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 (*delete if not applicable)
• 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 Nicola Hallmark, email address Nicola.hallmark@halton.gov.uk, telephone number 0151 5117415

Interviews will take place on w/c 16 February 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!