Research and Data Analyst
About the role
Are you passionate about data, providing insights and making a difference for adult social care? We are looking for someone with experience and knowledge of adult social care and a keen interest in helping to shape and support a programme of work for effective use of data and intelligence across Partners in Care and Health’s offer of sector-led improvement for adult social care and public health. You will work closely with the Programme Research and Data Manager to provide data, analysis and reporting to support PCH’s programme. You will help to develop new reports, tools and visual representations of data, and intelligence for adult social care and carry out day-to-day ad-hoc requests to meet reporting and other data requirements.
Data and intelligence for adult social care is becoming increasingly important and is experiencing a period of significant change. Working closely with ADASS regional networks this role will be an important part of ensuring that adult social care is able to maximise the opportunities for gaining insights and intelligence from the data available. The post holder will need to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to help shape the future direction for adult social care data and intelligence. The role and work will be varied, and you will need to make sense of lots of data and information to provide quality insights for adult social care.
Duties for this role will include
- Working collaboratively with colleagues across PCH and ADASS Regional teams to develop and promote the use of intelligence to support sector led improvement for adult social care
- Developing benchmarking and other data reports and tools, utilising LG Inform and other visualisations
- Ensuring that robust data quality arrangements are in place for any surveys, collections and / or analysis
- Analysing adult social care data and intelligence, identifying trends and insights to inform improvement.
About you
This is an exciting role for the right candidate with opportunities to be involved at this pivotal time for adult social care intelligence. You will have exceptional data visualisation skills, attention to detail and experience of using analysis software such as Excel to create data visualisations to answer specific questions. The successful post-holder will be a key part of the Partners in Care and Health team. We are looking for team players with data analysis skills who can write and communicate well and have good organisational abilities.
The LGA supports flexible working, and this role can be home or office-based at 18 Smith Square, London. Our approach to flexible working is based on a culture of trust and personal responsibility and includes having the flexibility to adapt your working arrangements to meet the changing needs of our business. Employees are responsible for managing their time and their work to deliver their role and meet their contractual requirements; managers work on the basis that people can be trusted to manage their own time effectively.
We are committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our staff can flourish and reach their full potential. We know that a diverse workforce, at all levels, allows for a more creative and productive environment bringing different viewpoints, knowledge and experience. We want our workforce to reflect the communities we serve. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from everyone irrespective of age, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity and sexual orientation.
You must have the right to work in the UK, the LGA are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship visas. Evidence for the right to work in the UK will be requested at the interview stage.
To apply
If you would like to be considered for the role, please click apply to be redirected to our website to provide a supporting statement detailing how you meet the criteria and upload your CV.
If you have any queries relating to this role please contact Philippa.Lynch@local.gov.uk
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Closing Date: 5pm, Wednesday 29 March 2023
Interview Date: W/C 10 April 2023, interviews will be held virtually
At the LGA we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open competition, with appointment on merit. The LGA are proud to be awarded a “Disability Confident Leader”. If you are require an reasonable adjustment, which is a change to the format or conditions of the recruitment process to accommodate any disability-related needs you may have. Please contact us via HRandPayroll@local.gov.uk