Excellent people, working together to promote fairness and opportunity for people and communities.
View current vacanciesWe are working to deliver and make a difference for our residents.
We need great people with compassion and energy who are ready to work with us to deliver the best for residents and communities in Wirral.
Do you want to be part of our journey and join our dedicated teams?
Apply now and #BeTheDifferenceNamed as one of the happiest places to live in the UK, Wirral is home to a growing population of over 320,000 people and over 8,000 businesses who we serve.
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Your career with us
Here at Wirral Council, we create a brighter future for our residents, communities and businesses.
Being part of Wirral Council means that no matter what service you deliver, you are supported to #BeTheDifference and improve the lives of everyone across the borough.
Take a look here to find out more about the different areas of the council you can join.
Here’s what our Chief Executive, Paul Satoor, has to say about what it means to work for Wirral:
"At Wirral Council our purpose is to work together to promote fairness and opportunity for people and communities. This is not just a strategy slogan but a true part of our DNA and lived experience at Wirral. It’s why we’re here.
Without a doubt, there has been some remarkable changes taking place across our borough over recent years. Together, we have set into action some very ambitious plans for our residents, businesses, communities and organisation, and we are clear that our ambitions can only be achieved through and with our people. A focus of my role is to make sure we have the right conditions, values, ways of working and culture to create an environment for people to thrive and be able to deliver our priorities. As we move forward, we will continue to deliver excellent and diverse services to our residents by embracing new ways of working, developing our workforce, and taking pride in creating a brighter future for our borough.
Throughout the year I visit teams across the council to hear about the work they do. I’ve been inspired meeting people in a wide variety of roles who are committed to and strive to improve the lives of our residents every day. This ethos is what it means to be part of Wirral Council and by joining Wirral you will have the opportunity to and be empowered to #BeTheDifference."
Our We are Wirral blog also gives you an inside look at what it’s like to be part of Wirral Council and meet the people who make it a great place to work:
Check out our working for Wirral blogWhat's guiding us
At the heart of everything we do are our values. They capture our spirit, ambition, and drive what we do and how we approach things. They influence our choices, behaviours, how we treat others and how we make decisions.
We’re proud of our values and putting them into practice helps create a supportive, inclusive and positive environment.
Employee benefits and recognition
Our employee benefits package is based on what our colleagues told us is important to them and supports our commitment to create a great place to work with the conditions for you to thrive.
Generous Leave
We offer a generous annual leave allowance of 28 days per year, plus 8 days of public holidays. This increases to 33 days plus public holidays after 5 years’ service. Employees also have the option of making use of our additional holiday purchase scheme. This is alongside a 36-hour working week.
Flexible working arrangements
At Wirral we recognise the benefits of flexible working for many of our roles, including greater work life balance, reduced travel time and costs, reduced carbon emissions, increased productivity, and greater job autonomy. Arrangements include our hybrid working and work-life balance policies, and our flexi-time scheme. These give our people a degree of personal choice and flexibility within the working day whilst delivering for our residents.
Pension Scheme
You will have the opportunity to join the Local Government Pension Scheme which provides an excellent range of benefits, including a current employer contribution rate of 18.7%. In this flexible scheme you can take your benefits anytime from age 55 to 75 and as well as receiving a pension when you retire, when you join you get immediate life cover and ill-health protection.
Employee Assistance Programme
Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provides around-the-clock mental health support to you and your immediate family. Whether it’s personal or professional challenges, our EAP provides a safe, confidential, and free space to talk through it all. This service includes a 24/7 confidential helpline, up to 6 sessions of structured counselling, 24/7 crisis assistance and manager support, in-house legal and financial information, and access to the My Healthy Advantage wellbeing app.
Mental Health and Wellbeing
Your wellbeing is our priority and at Wirral we’re committed to supporting our employee’s health needs, including their mental health. We have a mental health policy to support and maintain good mental health amongst employees and a wellbeing strategy to support our people to feel happy, healthy and engaged at work to be the difference for our residents. We also run wellbeing campaigns and events and provide learning opportunities focused on mental health and wellbeing.
Occupational Health Support
We have an excellent occupational health service to protect and support the health and welfare of our people within their roles. The service supports line managers and employees by providing advice, guidance and support on employee fitness and suitability, wellbeing linked to illness or health conditions and supporting return to work.
Staff Benefits Scheme
As a Wirral Council employee, you have exclusive access to a range of benefits, offers and discounts through our employee benefits and saving scheme. The scheme includes lifestyle savings such as discounts on shopping, dining out, theatre, cinema and experiences, a car benefit scheme, cycle 2 work and more.
Corporate Invigor8
Exercise has a wealth of benefits for our physical and mental health. All Wirral Council employees can use our leisure centres at a discounted rate, including access to swimming pools and fitness suites across the borough.
Annual Travel Pass Loan
At Wirral we’re a Climate Local Signatory and committed to carrying out our work in an environmentally responsible way. Travelling to work on public transport is one way people can reduce their carbon footprint. To support colleagues who travel by public transport, we offer an interest free loan to spread the cost of annual travel tickets over 12 months.
Bicycle Loan Scheme
Cycling to work is a cheaper, healthier, and more sustainable way of travelling. Employees at Wirral who want to buy a bike to travel to work can get an interest free loan of up to £1,500, with repayments over 12 months.
Great Growth Opportunities
It’s important to us that everyone at Wirral can access opportunities that support them to learn, grow, develop, and progress. Our offer includes coaching and mentoring, apprenticeships, manager essentials learning, our eLearning platform ‘Flo’ and more. Providing opportunities for our people to learn and progress is key to making sure we have the right skills and capabilities for now and the future, supporting a culture for everyone to thrive.
Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships play a big part in the way we do things. Our apprenticeship offer, ranging from entry level to degree apprenticeships, gives our people an opportunity to continue to develop and grow. This offer is open to anyone in any career and aims to support everyone to reach their full potential and achieve success.
Graduate Scheme
Our flagship graduate programme provides a fantastic opportunity for graduates to join a fast-paced, driven organisation and deliver high impact, high priority projects across the council. This two-year programme encourages our graduates to be champions for change and to think about how we can do things differently.
Volunteering scheme
Here at Wirral, we value the importance of volunteering within the community. To support this, employees can take up to 2 days a year to volunteer their help, time, and support to #BeTheDifference to our local community.
Medicash
All staff at Wirral have the opportunity of joining an exclusive corporate rated healthcare cash plan scheme called Medicash Active. This scheme enables you to claim back 100% of receipts on a whole host of healthcare treatments from any practitioner without needing to pay an excess or needing a referral.
HSBC Financial Wellbeing Programme
No matter who you bank with personally, Wirral employees can access the HSBC UK’s Financial Wellbeing Programme. This programme provides free, confidential support and guidance, and gives you the knowledge and understanding of key financial topics. It includes a financial health check service and daily webinars.
Recognition
At our all-staff events we’ve heard about the pride people feel for their colleagues and how ‘people bring their heart and soul to the job and go above and beyond’. We believe it’s important to recognise and thank colleagues for all the valuable work they do and to celebrate their achievements. This includes our annual long service celebration and our peer-to-peer recognition campaign called ‘Wirral’s Christmas Stars’.
Hearing from you
Your voice is important in helping us work together to make Wirral an even better place to work.
Our Staff Forum is open to all staff and is our ‘go to group’ for insights that shape the way we work. We also host all staff events, such as our Chief Executive Roadshows and Directorate events, and run an annual staff survey to explore what we do well, what we can focus on to continuously improve, and what matters to you.
We also have our Inclusion Group and Staff Networks including:
Race, Religion and Belief Group; Neurodiversity Group; Hidden Disabilities Group; LGBTQ+ Group; Men’s Network; Women’s Network; Menopause Network; Menstrual Health Network; Working Carers Network; Young Persons Network; and Parenting Network.
Our Staff Networks are a great opportunity to meet colleagues from across the council. They’re open, safe spaces that take positive action to make sure Wirral is an equitable place to work and help us to celebrate diversity and promote inclusion.
Great Leadership and Management| How we lead at Wirral
At Wirral we believe you don’t have to be a manager to be a leader, and whatever your role in the organisation, we can all support and enable each other to achieve great things.
To create a culture where great leadership is developed, nurtured, and thrives, we have a Leadership Behaviour Framework shaped by our people. It describes what great leadership looks like at all levels and sets the expectations for how we lead here at Wirral.
We also have a development offer to support all our managers which includes a monthly Manager Network; regular opportunities to share learning at ‘Manager Micros’, and a Manager Essentials Programme.
We are working to deliver and make a difference for our residents.
We need great people with compassion and energy who are ready to work with us to deliver the best for residents and communities in Wirral.
Check out our vacancies or join our talent pool today