Early Years and Best Start Home Learning Environment Officer

Job Introduction

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:

Halton was one of 75 local authorities to be awarded Family Hub funding and we have developed 6 Family Hubs across the borough building on our strong and well established children’s centres. We are proud of what we have achieved in Halton and we have a strong offer to families ensuring good access to services to give young children the best start in life and providing early intervention & support where concerns emerge. Breaking the cycle of poor outcomes and providing early help and preventing issues becoming entrenched by building resilience in working alongside parents and communities. Our offer supports access to strong universal entitlements to ensure children are ready for school, ready for life. 

Hours: 37

Your Contributions:

As an Early Years and Best Start Home Learning Environment Officer you will play a key role in delivering Halton’s Best Start in Life ambition. You’ll work with early years settings, families, and partners to strengthen home learning environments and support children’s early development, wellbeing, and school readiness.You’ll promote evidence-based approaches, provide targeted guidance and workshops, and help ensure consistent, high-quality early years practice across the borough—empowering parents and carers to give every child the best possible start.

Some of the main responsibilities of the role include:
• Acting as a key link between early years settings, families, health services, and Family Hub teams.

• Providing guidance to parents on child development, early learning, and school readiness, including running workshops (e.g., speech, routines, play).

• Supporting early years settings with programmes, home learning environment (HLE) initiatives, and targeted interventions for children needing extra help.

• Working with professionals to identify timely support, while collecting and using data to monitor outcomes and improve planning.

• Contributing to wider development through resource creation, workforce support, transition planning, and strengthening parent engagement.

You will hold an NVQ Level 3 in Childcare or equivalent and will have post qualifying experience of working with children in EYFS and supporting children with additional needs. 

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 Sarah Campbell – Sarah.Campbell@halton.gov.uk. 

Interviews are expected to take place on 11th 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!