Job responsibilities
This is a fixed term appointment until April 2025. It is open to external candidates and loans from other government departments.
Applicants from other government departments should ensure they have approval from their line manage before applying.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Lead a workstream to improve collaboration between cross-government statistics producers and deliver more coherent health official statistics
- Collaborate and build relationships with stakeholders across government to build a strong community and ensure collaboration is built into statistics production processes.
- Support and play an active part in the Health Leadership forum and other cross-government networks and identify opportunities to enhance the coherence of statistics across government
- Give practical support and advice to colleagues in UKHSA and resolve issues as they arise to ensure that statistics outputs remain at the highest standards.
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Essential Criteria:
- Strong leadership skills including the ability to build, develop and lead high performing analytical teams, and to promote the effective use of analysis and evidence to senior stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, to engage and influence a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including ministers and senior officials.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively, win trust and respect, and influence a wide range of stakeholders and experts within UKHSA, across government, and externally, with strong skills in building and managing relationships across organisational boundaries and complex landscapes.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and conflicting pressures from various stakeholders.
- Excellent analytical skills, to lead, quality assure, and effectively disseminate high-quality, complex data and statistics to gain maximum impact, with practical experience of managing and delivering statistical publications.
Desirable criteria:
- Extensive working experience of the Code of Practice for Statistics and other statistical and analytical protocols and frameworks.
Membership/s
Because of the nature of these roles in supporting the statistics community, we are looking for individuals who are either badged members of one of the analytical professions or who are eligible and willing to undergo badging to the Government Statistical Group (GSG) as part of the selection process for this role.The four analytical professions are:
- Government Statistician Group (GSG)
- Government Social Research (GSR)
- Government Operational Research Service (GORS)
- Government Economic Service (GES)
You should specify which profession you are a member of at the start of your personal statement and state this in the qualifications section of the application form. If you are looking to be badged as part of this recruitment exercise, you should state clearly how you meet the eligibility criteria within the application form.
Selection Process
Stage 1: Application & Sift
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
As part of the application process you will be asked to provide a Personal Statement / Statement of Suitability in no more than 1500 words. We will be assessing essential criteria at sift. You will also be assessed against the competency framework at Grade 7 level for the appropriate analytical profession, which will be competency framework for the GSG if you are seeking to be badged as part of this recruitment exercise.
Your statement of suitability should be split into two parts, the first part should be roughly 1000 words (word count over 1,000 will be disregarded and not assessed) and should outline your skills, experience, and achievements, providing evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the Experience criteria or the essential criteria (outlined in the person specification section). Explain your eligibility to be badged to the GSG, if you are not already a badged member of an analytical profession.
The second part of your statement of suitability should be a discussion of how you meet the following two technical competencies and should be roughly 500 words:
- Use and application of professional analytical skills to real issues or problems.
- Communicating analysis with impact.
It is essential that in your statement of suitability you give evidence, using examples, of proven experience.
Feedback will not be provided at this stage.
You will also be asked to provide information within the Employer/ Activity history section of the application form. This is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV, setting out your career history. This will be used in the sifting process and will be scored
Stage 2: Panel Interview
This vacancy is using Success Profiles. During the interview we will assess your Behaviours/Strengths/Ability/ Experience/Technical skills. This interview will be conducted remotely via Microsoft Teams
You will be asked to prepare and present a 5 minute presentation to bring out your leadership/technical and professional skills at Grade 7 level. The subject of this will be sent to you prior to interview.
When assessing strengths, we want to find out whether you and the job role are a good fit. We will look at what you enjoy doing and what you do well and often. By ensuring that the role is the right fit for you, you are more likely to enjoy it and perform well.
Behaviours to be assessed:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Leadership
- Developing Self and Others
The following two technical skills will be assessed during interview
- Use and application of professional analytical skills to real issues or problems.
- Communicating analysis with impact.
Reserve List:
Candidates who pass the interview criteria but are not offered a post will be kept on a reserve list for 12 months and may be contacted if similar roles become available.
If you are interviewed for the post and do not meet the required threshold for the specified grade, your application may be assessed against a similar, lower grade role and you may be offered the post should one be available.
Benefits
- Civil Service Pension Contribution of 27%
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- Range of health and wellbeing support
Any move to UKHSA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare.
DBS - People working with government systems must complete Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks which includes a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed for this role is BPSS however there may be a requirement for this role to be SC cleared and you should familiarise yourself with the criteria of security clearance.
This role is Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants. Appointments to roles within UKHSA will be made in accordance with the Civil Service nationality rules. These can be found athttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rulesThis job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of theEuropean Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.
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Government baseline personnel security standard
Its important to note that there are currently exceptions to applications being considered if your conviction relates to any of the following:
- life sentences
- arson
- sexual offences
- hate and terror offences
Some departments will also consider the specific offence against the nature of the business, i.e., a conviction for fraud may rule you out for a finance role
Contact Details Sophie.Rigney@reed.com
