Case Worker - Women's Centre

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 Women’s Centre provides a safe and welcoming environment to deliver focused support, advice, guidance, and activities to women who reside in Halton to support them to address their issues, to maximise their independence and make choices about their lives. The post holder will liaise directly with both clients and professionals and undertake the subsequent record keeping that accompanies this. It is essential that the post holder understands a wide variety of issues that affect women, including any safeguarding issues.

Please note this role is for female applicants only, which is an occupational requirement in accordance with the equalities act 2010

Hours: 22.5 per week

Your Contributions:

We are looking for someone with experience of working with women from a range of backgrounds and who understands the value base of the service. You must have good interpersonal and communication skills, a flexible approach along with a willingness to continually improve your practice. You must have ability to work on your own initiative and prioritise your workload in a busy environment.

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 Vicky Lockwood, 0151 511 7501, Vicky.lockwood@halton.gov.uk

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.

Please note a requirement of this role is for female applicants only, which is an occupational requirement in accordance with the Equalities Act 2010.

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!