Youth & HAF Co-ordinator

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:

Seated within the Commissioning team, you'll be supporting our work within the Children's Directorate and across the wider partnership. You will lead on the co-ordination of the development and delivery of Youth Grant provision and Holiday Activity Fund Programme.

Hours: 37 hours per week. Fixed Term Contract to 31/03/2029.

Your Contributions:

You will lead on the co-ordination and development of Holiday Activity fund (HAF) programme and Halton Youth Grants. HAF programme provides healthy meals, enriching activities, and free childcare places to children from low-income families through school holidays. The youth grant programme will support the development of inclusive, sustainable, and high-quality youth services across the borough in line with Halton Childrens and Young Peoples Plan 2024-2027 . This will include supporting the panel process around applications, funding and sign up to relevant grant conditions. You will conduct Quality Assurance checks on providers, involving visits to providers' sites, to ensure that they are delivering their programmes effectively and in line with the activities they have agreed to deliver, as well as obtaining feedback from parents and carers.

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 (pro-rata for part-time employees)

• 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

• Car leasing schemes

• 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 Clare Hunt, Strategic Children's Commissioning Manager, on 0151 511 7342 / clare.hunt@halton.gov.uk

Interviews will provisionally take place on 29th 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!