Health and Care Intelligence Specialist Apprentice
South Gloucestershire Council
Bristol (BS37 5AF)
Closes in 13 days (Sunday 1 June 2025)
Posted on 16 May 2025
Contents
Summary
As a Health and Care Intelligence Specialist Apprentice, you will support the public health division and wider council to deliver on commitments to promote healthier lifestyles and reduce inequalities within the population it serves.
- Wage
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£39,513 a year
- Training course
- Health and care intelligence specialist (level 7)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 July 2025
- Duration
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3 years 1 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- It will be key for you to provide professional statistical advice, ensuring that complex statistics are explained and understood by non-statistical professionals, enabling and facilitating evidence-based decision making.
- You will take responsibility for specifying requirements with customers, providing advice and guidance on the appropriate methods surrounding the collection, storage, analysis and dissemination of analysis and intelligence.
- Regularly, you will be linking, analysing and interpreting complex health, care and population data using the most appropriate specialist health analytical and epidemiological techniques.
- You will have the opportunity to support the maintenance and development of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and other health needs assessments.
- As part of your learning journey, you will contribute to the skills, training and dissemination of information to improve intelligence and analytical capacity within the council.
Where you'll work
Council Offices
Badminton Road, Yate
Bristol
BS37 5AF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
JGA LIMITED
Your training course
Health and care intelligence specialist (level 7)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Collect data by utilising a variety of tools (e.g. databases, software systems, APIs, digital devices).
- Extract, import, clean, and manipulate a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data.
- Undertake advanced statistical and epidemiological analysis.
- Interpret and present advanced statistical and epidemiological analyses being mindful of the risks associated with presenting and publishing health information.
- Undertake linkage of health and care data accurately and in accordance with the relevant information governance requirements.
- Design and specify data flows, collection, storage and collation mechanisms for both qualitative and quantitative data.
- Develop data visualisations appropriate for a range of audiences and contexts using a variety of analytical tools including statistical programming software and industry standard packages (e.g. R, Tableau, PowerBI).
- Professionally interpret and present health and care intelligence analyses and recommendations in a well structured report.
- Formulate analysis questions and hypotheses which are answerable given the data available.
- Investigate patterns and variations in determinants, diseases, and other factors affecting health and care outcomes.
- Design and undertake surveys, audits or research (e.g. to investigate patterns of disease or support service development).
- Review, and critically appraise evidence and research including survey design and analysis. Summarise and disseminate relevant literature.
- Work with users of information to clarify their information needs, focusing on understanding the problem to solve or decision to inform, and tailor reports and presentations accordingly.
- Provide advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders at all organisational levels, on data collection, analysis and interpretation.
- Develop and deliver management/Board level presentations which influence senior decision makers, both non-technical and technical.
- Communicate sensitively, accurately and appropriately to audiences from technical and non-technical backgrounds.
- Comply with, implement and advise on local and national data protection and confidentiality legislation, policies, procedures and any other relevant legal frameworks.
- Demonstrate effective leadership and change management skills to influence the use of analysis within an organisation, managing analytical teams and adhering to the principles of continuous improvement.
- Evaluate the significance of human factors in the effective development and implementation of organisational strategies for collection, analysis and use of data.
- Develop and communicate a vision of how data, intelligence and evidence can be used to influence and improve decision making in an organisation.
- Develop effective partnership working arrangements with a range of colleagues across departments and organisations, in particular the public sector and voluntary sectors and academia.
- Manage the resources of an analytical team, including staff and budget management.
- Support the professional development of others in the health and care system.
- Design and deliver effective training and evaluate its impact.
- Apply a range of coaching interventions and techniques relevant to the health and care system, selecting the most appropriate method to meet the needs of an individual or group.
- Determine when mentoring is appropriate for others in the health and care system and either act in a mentoring capacity or identify the appropriate individual(s) to act as mentors.
- Develop, maintain and enhance activity and financial and outcomes models, sense checking and refining the model based on various scenarios and advising on the best option for planning future activity and income or expenditure.
- Apply a range of project management techniques to lead and / or manage complex health and care intelligence projects.
- Protect and safeguard vulnerable people and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- Apply economic principles and tools to calculate value for money by determining costs, benefits and return on investment of interventions and services.
- Collect data by utilising a variety of tools (e.g. databases, software systems, APIs, digital devices).
- Extract, import, clean, and manipulate a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data.
- Undertake advanced statistical and epidemiological analysis.
- Interpret and present advanced statistical and epidemiological analyses being mindful of the risks associated with presenting and publishing health information.
- Undertake linkage of health and care data accurately and in accordance with the relevant information governance requirements.
- Design and specify data flows, collection, storage and collation mechanisms for both qualitative and quantitative data.
- Develop data visualisations appropriate for a range of audiences and contexts using a variety of analytical tools including statistical programming software and industry standard packages (e.g. R, Tableau, PowerBI).
- Professionally interpret and present health and care intelligence analyses and recommendations in a well structured report.
- Formulate analysis questions and hypotheses which are answerable given the data available.
- Investigate patterns and variations in determinants, diseases, and other factors affecting health and care outcomes.
- Design and undertake surveys, audits or research (e.g. to investigate patterns of disease or support service development).
- Review, and critically appraise evidence and research including survey design and analysis. Summarise and disseminate relevant literature.
- Work with users of information to clarify their information needs, focusing on understanding the problem to solve or decision to inform, and tailor reports and presentations accordingly.
- Provide advice and guidance to internal and external stakeholders at all organisational levels, on data collection, analysis and interpretation.
- Develop and deliver management/Board level presentations which influence senior decision makers, both non-technical and technical.
- Communicate sensitively, accurately and appropriately to audiences from technical and non-technical backgrounds.
- Comply with, implement and advise on local and national data protection and confidentiality legislation, policies, procedures and any other relevant legal frameworks.
- Demonstrate effective leadership and change management skills to influence the use of analysis within an organisation, managing analytical teams and adhering to the principles of continuous improvement.
- Evaluate the significance of human factors in the effective development and implementation of organisational strategies for collection, analysis and use of data.
- Develop and communicate a vision of how data, intelligence and evidence can be used to influence and improve decision making in an organisation.
- Develop effective partnership working arrangements with a range of colleagues across departments and organisations, in particular the public sector and voluntary sectors and academia.
- Manage the resources of an analytical team, including staff and budget management.
- Support the professional development of others in the health and care system.
- Design and deliver effective training and evaluate its impact.
- Apply a range of coaching interventions and techniques relevant to the health and care system, selecting the most appropriate method to meet the needs of an individual or group.
- Determine when mentoring is appropriate for others in the health and care system and either act in a mentoring capacity or identify the appropriate individual(s) to act as mentors.
- Develop, maintain and enhance activity and financial and outcomes models, sense checking and refining the model based on various scenarios and advising on the best option for planning future activity and income or expenditure.
- Apply a range of project management techniques to lead and / or manage complex health and care intelligence projects.
- Protect and safeguard vulnerable people and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- Apply economic principles and tools to calculate value for money by determining costs, benefits and return on investment of interventions and services.
Your training plan
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- GCSE English (grade 4 and above)
- GCSE maths (grade C or 4 and above)
Other in:
science, technology, engineering or mathematics (S (grade 2:2)Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
About this company
Employer Description South Gloucestershire Council is the local authority of South Gloucestershire, a unitary authority in the South West of England region. As a unitary authority it has the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. It is administratively separate from the county of Gloucestershire.
https://careers.southglos.gov.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
After this apprenticeship
- Should a hay graded post become available wihin the team, the apprentice will be encouraged to apply.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
South Gloucestershire Council
Ashton Yon
Ashton.Yon@southglos.gov.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000320976.
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Closes in 13 days (Sunday 1 June 2025)
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Company’s application instructions
Please register and apply through our SGC careers webpage.