Senior Data Analyst x 2 Remote
Job description
Job Title: Senior Data Analyst x 2
Salary: £37,488.81 per annum
Status: Full time - Permanent
Location: Leeds Based with the opportunity of agile working
Closing Date: 5pm on 19th March 2023
Interview Date: Week commencing 27th March 2023
About Skills for Care
Skills for Care is the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government, and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills, and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support, now and in the future.
We respond and adapt to the emerging trends and needs within social care, using data and evidence to drive forward widescale change. We provide best practice, tools, resources, and intelligence to support workforce recruitment, capabilities, and culture.
Supporting workforce capabilities to ensure staff have the right skills, knowledge, competencies, values and behaviours to meet current and future needs in our communities is a key strategic priority for us. People working in adult social care have a vital role in society, and deserve to be recognised as highly qualified professionals, who are respected for the work they do.
The Role
Working in the Analysis team within Skills for Care’s Workforce Intelligence unit, you will analyse and report on data held within the Adult Social Care Workforce Data set (ASC-WDS). The ASC-WDS is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and is the major data collection on the adult social care workforce. It collects data about care-providing establishments as well as data about individual workers in this large and growing employment sector.
We are hiring for 2 new analysts to join the Analysis team. We work on a diverse range of projects and use a variety of software; you do not need to be an expert in all areas to begin with. Training will be provided, however experience of these software or similar are required along with strong analytical skills.
Analyst work will involve using a combination of Microsoft excel and statistical packages (such as SPSS) to analyse datasets. Data visualisation tools (such as Tableau and Power BI) are also used to provide insights for internal and external stakeholders.
Leading on analysis, data visualisation and report writing projects, you will work in an Agile project environment contributing to delivery, planning and new innovations within the team. Strong interpersonal skills are required to operate effectively within the team and with a variety of partners and clients.
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You will be part of a team that provides vital information that is used by central government for policy shaping and at a local level by decision makers and workforce planners. You will take a lead role in the delivery of analysis, data visualisation and report writing projects within the workforce intelligence team.
If this excites you then this might be the role for you.
Please visit our website for the full job description and details on how to apply.
At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognize that sometimes an individual’s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.
A DBS check is not required for these roles. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.
