Support Worker - Day Services

Support Worker role- Day Services

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:

There has never been a more exciting time to join Halton Borough Council.

Halton Community Day Services are excited to offer the role of a Support Worker opportunity to the right candidate.

We are a dynamic service, supporting Adults with Physical, Sensory, Learning Disabilities and Dementia in some innovative and award winning ways.

We are passionate about person centred support and take pride in the quality of activities that we are able to offer: enabling meaningful engagement in a wide range of opportunities.

We value our skilled staff team: In addition to Halton Borough Councils generous benefits packages, we are also able to offer a dedicated staff-shopping hour outside of work hours in our discounted Pantry. You will be eligible to apply for a Blue Light Card and Discount for Carers card.

Our portfolio of businesses, where people are able to develop their employment skills include:

A Brewery

Four Cafes

An Ice Cream Parlour

Two Shopmobility outlets

A Market Garden

A Hair and Beauty Salon

Two Community Pantries

An Animal Smallholding

A Specialist Dementia Service (x1 post)

We also run some more traditional groups in the community, focusing on developing and maintaining living skills, supporting people who may have behaviour that can challenge or offering therapeutic and social value in activities such as The Samba Band, Craft production and PMLD groups. As a support worker you will be asked to work across day services venues depending on the service needs, however this post is looking for an applicant with Dementia Experience.

ABOUT YOU

If you are qualified to the equivalent of NVQ 2 in any of our service areas,

If you feel that you have specialised skills that would enable you to support people in a person centred way in any of our business or therapeutic endeavours,

Or if you have skills that that you feel could contribute to the development and success of our businesses to a highly effective and prosperous level, we would love to hear from you.

Halton has amenities, attractions, and activities in abundance. The area offers endless opportunities to enjoy the outdoors, with three canals and miles of footpaths right on our doorstep.

The overarching Council vision is “Halton will be a thriving and vibrant borough where people can learn and develop their skills, enjoy a good quality of life with good health; a high quality, modern urban environment; the opportunity for all to fulfil their potential; greater wealth and equality; sustained by a thriving business community; and within safer, stronger and more attractive neighbourhoods”

* To support Adults with Dementia, to engage in meaningful activities

* To support Adults with a Learning disability (LD ) to engage in meaningful activities.

*  To support people who may have behaviour that can challenge

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
• Car leasing schemes

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 Libby Kilbane on 0151 511 6868 admin.bredon@halton.gov.uk

We wish to make the application process as straightforward as possible, so we just ask that you upload your CV and supporting statement. If you require more information regarding this particular post please contact Libby Kilbane on 0151 511 6868 for more details.

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 8^th and  Wednesday 9^th April 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!