Practice Manager Health Improvement Adult Healthy Lifestyles

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:

This role is part of Halton Health Improvement Team within Public Health and is accountable to the Health Improvement Principal Manager. The post-holder will be responsible for managing the well-established ‘Live Well’ team who deliver on programmes to promote healthy lifestyles and reduce the risk of long-term health conditions for people who live and work in Halton.

You will provide strategic leadership and expertise on adult healthy lifestyles, working alongside other Practice Managers within the wider Health Improvement Team.

You will be based at Runcorn Town Hall, with the option of flexible hybrid working. This post is fixed term expected until 31st March 2028 to cover a secondment.

Hours: 37 per week

Your Contributions:

The Practice Manager for Adult Healthy Lifestyles provides leadership across Halton’s Public Health prevention services for adults, and is responsible for leading and developing evidence‑based programmes aligned with Public Health priorities, including NHS Health Checks, Exercise on Referral and adult weight management.

The postholder drives service improvement through the use of local population needs assessments, data, intelligence and best practice.

Working autonomously, they lead and motivate a multidisciplinary team and build strong partnerships across primary and secondary care, social care and community sectors.

The core focus of this role is improving health outcomes for adults in Halton and actively reducing health inequalities through targeted, integrated and person‑centred prevention approaches.

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
• Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Essential Monthly Car User Allowance

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 Rebekah Walsh (Principal Manager - Health Improvement) - Rebekah.Walsh@halton.gov.uk 0151 511 5399

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 9th June 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!