Adults Senior Data Analyst

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils

Greater London

10 months ago

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Are you passionate about data and business intelligence? Then become a key player in transforming complex social care data into impactful and effective visual insights that tell our story.

Utilise your PowerBI and coding skills to lead our social care managers to data-driven decision-making. We will help you to channel your passion towards making a positive impact on the lives of vulnerable adults and carers in Richmond and Wandsworth.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Data Analyst in the Assurance and Innovation Division of the Adult Social Care and Public Health Directorate. You’ll work within a committed and passionate Adult’s Performance Team, and alongside a wide range of colleagues from operational services, IT, and commissioners, to help deliver performance monitoring and reporting, from our social care case management systems. You will also use a wide range of other national and local data sources so that we have excellent visibility of our performance, and service user experience.

As the Senior Data Analyst, within the team, your skills will make a difference by helping us tell a story with our data, and insights, which will help us to know where we’re doing well but also where we need to improve service delivery to our residents.

You will be joining adult social care at a time when there are lots of exciting changes happening so this will be an ideal opportunity for you to be part of a new journey where you will have the opportunity to use your skills and to develop them further.

About You

To be part our team you will need to:

Enjoy working in a constantly changing and busy environment.

You will be a self-starter who is also comfortable working individually as well as part of a team.

You will have an inquisitive mindset, with a strong eye for detail.

You will be comfortable planning, leading, and delivering complex data solutions to improve performance and to deliver better services for our residents.

You will have a strong quantitative analytical background and be able to draw out key messages from large datasets.

You will be an excellent communicator, able to explain data concepts to non-technical audiences.

You will have highly developed IT skills that includes using tools such as SQL, R or Python, PowerBI and PowerQuery

You will have good project management skills with experience of working collaboratively with colleagues across large organizations.

There are developmental opportunities within the team where you will have freedom to be creative by using your existing skills and by developing new ones in the use of data visualization tools and analysis techniques.

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