5 Social Care Jobs in Widnes

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:

This is one of three roles that has recently been reshaped through a service restructure to strengthen our health improvement offering for older people. Reporting to the Health Improvement Specialist, you'll join a collaborative team committed to helping older adults improve their health, wellbeing and quality of life while reducing loneliness and supporting people to live independently for longer.

Working across communities, health and social care and care homes the team delivers practical, person-centred support that empowers people to access local opportunities, build confidence, increase physical activity and stay connected. We also work across the wider system to promote age-friendly approaches, strengthen partnerships and advocate for the issues that matter to older people.

Hours: 37 hour per week flexible working

Your Contributions:

You'll manage your own caseload, delivering the 12-week Stronger for Longer programme by completing holistic health and wellbeing assessments, developing personalised action plans, arranging access to appropriate community services and activities, and providing a handholding service where required to help people overcome barriers and build lasting confidence.

Working autonomously while supported by the Health Improvement Specialist, you'll coordinate referrals, undertake risk assessments, monitor progress and maintain accurate records to ensure positive outcomes for older adults.

You'll recruit and coordinate volunteers, organise community events, develop local service directories, identify gaps in provision and build strong relationships with health and social care partners, care homes and the VCFSE sector to create an age-friendly community.

You'll also play a key role in prevention by delivering training and workshops for frontline staff, including colleagues from care homes and social care, on preventative health improvement approaches. Using evidence-based public health principles, including Making Every Contact Count (MECC), you'll promote healthy ageing, increase awareness of local support and represent the service at meetings and community events to encourage referrals and collaborative working.

As an advocate for older people, you'll work with individuals, communities and third sector organisations to influence the wider system, ensuring the voices and experiences of older adults shape local services and opportunities.

You'll contribute to service development, performance monitoring and continuous improvement while maintaining the highest standards of safeguarding, health and safety, equality and customer care.

Essential - You will be trained to NVQ Level III in a related discipline.

As this role involves regular travel across the borough and sometimes further afield, a driving license and access to a vehicle are essential requirements. Where appropriate, reasonable adjustments will be made in accordance with the provisions of the Equality Act.

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 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 Kathryn.Anderson@halton.gov.uk

Interviews will take place on 5th August 2026 at Runcorn Town Hall

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!