Recruitment & Resourcing Service Manager

Halton Borough Council; Widnes; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

34 days holiday

LGPS pension

Life cover 3x

Personal development

Free car parking

Employee benefits platform

Job summary

Halton Borough Council is seeking an experienced Recruitment & Resourcing Service Manager to lead the team and shape the Council’s workforce strategy across departments and schools.

You will drive recruitment, resourcing, and workforce change initiatives with a focus on compliance, cost savings and service improvement. The role reports to the HR leadership and requires strong stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in recruitment, resourcing, organisational change or workforce transformation.
• Proven experience leading, coaching and developing teams.
• Strong knowledge of employment legislation and ACAS Codes of Practice.
• Experience managing agency and contingent workforce arrangements.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Recruitment & Resourcing Team to shape workforce strategy across the Council and schools.
• Manage permanent, temporary and fixed-term recruitment and contingent workers including agency staff.
• Provide strategic advice on restructures, redeployment and workforce change with a focus on value for money.
• Drive continuous improvement and excellent customer service across the service.

Skills

Recruitment

Resourcing

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Change management

Budget management

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

Location: Municipal Bldg, Kingsway, Cheshire, Widnes WA8 7QF, UKSalary: 48,738

• 51,928 per year
• Employment: Full time
• Category: HR
• Posted: 2026-09-26
• Valid to: 2026-10-11
• Apply: Halton Borough Council

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

We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Recruitment & Resourcing Service Manager to lead our Recruitment & Resourcing Team and help shape the Council’s workforce strategy.

This is a high-impact opportunity for an HR professional with strong expertise in recruitment, resourcing, workforce planning and organisational change.

Working with senior leaders, managers, schools, trade unions and external partners, you will deliver a high-quality, customer-focused service that supports our ambitions, strengthens workforce planning and delivers value for money.

You will lead and develop a specialist team responsible for recruitment and workforce resourcing across the Council and schools, overseeing permanent, temporary and fixed-term recruitment, as well as contingent workers including agency and casual staff. A key focus will be agency workforce management and expenditure, using data and insight to identify savings, improve workforce planning and develop sustainable staffing solutions. As the Council’s subject matter expert, you will provide strategic advice on organisational reviews, restructures, redeployment and workforce change, ensuring legal compliance and best practice.

You will also drive continuous improvement, innovation and excellent customer service across the service.

Your Contributions

You will be a credible and influential HR professional, confident operating at both strategic and operational levels and will bring a CIPD qualification or equivalent professional knowledge and experience. In addition, you will hold:

• Significant experience in recruitment, resourcing, organisational change or workforce transformation.
• Proven experience leading, coaching and developing teams.
• Strong knowledge of employment legislation, ACAS Codes of Practice and relevant case law.
• Practical experience of restructures, organisational redesign and workforce change programmes.
• Experience managing agency and contingent workforce arrangements.
• Strong project and change management skills.
• Experience of budget management, service planning and contract/SLA management.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using workforce data to inform decisions.
• Experience working effectively with trade unions and senior stakeholders.

If you are an experienced HR leader who can combine strategic thinking with operational expertise and a passion for improving services, we would love to hear from you.

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
• Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme

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 – 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.