SEND Performance and Intelligence Officer

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. The team supports children’s services with commissioning of a variety of services across education, social care and early help, this also includes both education and social care placements for young people. The team is bases at Rutland House in Runcorn on a hybrid basis.

Hours: 37 per week. Fixed term until 31/01/2027

Your Contributions:

We are looking for a SEND Performance and Intelligence officer to join our team. The role will have responsibility for producing and analysing all key business intelligence performance reports for SEND/Inclusion purposes.

The role will involve accurate and timely production and submission of performance information for internal reporting as well as government and external regulators and inspectors, including the submission of data returns and self-assessments.

The role will assist with implementing changes with reporting systems to interpret and report upon service information. This will be used to support and facilitate service planning, performance management, and service improvement across children services.

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 Clare Hunt at <Clare.Hunt@halton.gov.uk>

Interviews will take place on Thursday 23rd October 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!