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Our Story:

Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring three 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:

Our team are responsible for ensuring that all Children in Care aged 0 – 18 years are supported to achieve positive outcomes and support them in planning to build their lives as young adults ready to leave care and live independently. The team is also responsible for finding permanent families for those children who cannot live within their birth family.

We have a stable and very experienced team of Community Support workers based in Runcorn. As a Community Support Worker you will support and work alongside Social Workers and other professionals to implement individual Children’s care plans to ensure they achieve positive outcomes and their aspirations, are safe, have their voices heard and maintain stability to achieve permanence.

Hours: 37hrs

Your Contributions:

Duties include supervising family time between children and families alongside completing direct and life story work to seek the wishes and feelings of children in our care placed both within borough and outside of the Halton area.

Our Community Support Workers are creative in developing life story books for those placed for adoption and children in long term care. Within the role you will contribute to care planning led by the Social Worker and undertake tasks to support a child’s permanency plan which may be residential, foster care, returning home to parents or in semi independence and preparing for adulthood.

Here at Halton we are committed to supporting Workers to achieve their aspirations and you will have real opportunities for further training and skills development.

To apply for this post you must be qualified to the level set out within the job profile and have the skills as outlined, ideally with experience within a statutory children’s social care setting, along with knowledge and understanding of working with children in care and care leavers and our key partners as a corporate parent.

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 Lyndsey Ratcliffe (Service Manager Children in Care and Adoption) lyndsey.ratcliffe@halton.gov.uk on 0151 511 8594.

Interviews are expected to take place on 18th August 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!