Analyst

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of 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 and contribute to building a strong community and ensure collaboration is built into statistics production processes.
• Support and play an active part in cross-government networks and forums and look for 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
• As a relatively new Agency, UKHSA will likely undergo a series of continued change over the next two years. This may include changing elements of these posts as required to better meet UKHSA outcomes

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:

• A strong commitment to working collaboratively, and the ability to work effectively with colleagues from a range of professional backgrounds
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to a range of stakeholders including those who dont have a technical background
• Experience of delivering work to challenging deadlines whilst maintaining high standards and quality outputs.

• Excellent analytical skills to analyse, quality assure and effectively disseminate high quality, complex data and statistics.

• Experience of thinking both critically and creatively to find new solutions to existing problems.

Desirable criteria:

• Experience of the Code of Practice for Statistics and other statistical and analytical protocols and frameworks.

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.

Your statement of suitability should be split into two parts, the first part should be roughly 1000 words 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).

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

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
• Managing a Quality Service
• 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.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

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

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• oA strong commitment to working collaboratively, and the ability to work effectively with colleagues from a range of professional backgrounds

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

remote

remote

NW9 5EQ

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)