Adult Social Care Development Officer

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Development Officer to join our award-winning Adult Social Care team on a full time, 12-month fixed term contract.

As the Adult Social Care Development Officer, you will play an integral role in leading on the design, build and roll-out of Power BI Dashboards and performance reports across multiple Adult Social Care Teams, providing expert advice, guidance and training to colleagues across the directorate.

This role will own and manage the move towards automation of live reporting from Adult Social Care systems.

Benefits:

Not only is this an excellent opportunity, but it’s a fantastic time to join our team. You will receive an extensive range of employee benefits including:

⭐ A generous annual leave entitlement of 31 days (rising to 36 days after 5 years continued local government service), plus Bank Holidays

⭐ An excellent local government pension scheme

⭐ An employee assistance programme including 24/7 wellbeing helpline

⭐ A range of local & lifestyle discounts

⭐ Use of a free onsite gym (located at Shute End office)

⭐ Salary sacrifice car & cycle to work schemes

⭐ And much more! 

Key responsibilities:

• To design and deliver dimensional models (star schema, facts and dimensions) in an established data warehouse to form the basis of Adult Social Care reporting
• To design and deliver a suite of impactful and engaging Power BI reports that meet the requirements of stakeholders
• To implement the required ETL using established infrastructure (Azure Data Factory and SQL)
• To manage the end user training to use dashboards, reports and/or datasets
• To provide consistency across management reporting and processes in place that aligns to the corporate direction and approach.

Candidate requirements:

• Qualifications relevant to the role, experience or applied training that demonstrates a good level of applied knowledge in business analysis, project management or system development
• Excellent IT programming skills using software such as SQL and Power BI (essential) and JavaScript (desirable)
• Ability to simplify complex and technical processes, information and ideas to communicate effectively to a wide range of colleagues and customers
• Experience of delivering projects to achieve strategic goals and service improvements with evidence of success in achieving targets and managing performance.

Our Area:

Wokingham Borough is set in the heart of Berkshire with excellent transport links to Reading and central London. Our area comprises of a vibrant and historical market town, attractive villages, and miles of beautiful countryside. 

We’re home to a range of high performing schools, a host of international businesses and an incredible community. The borough has a strong local economy with accelerated growth, a range of excellent public facilities and low levels of crime, offering an exceptional quality of life. 

For more information or to arrange a confidential call, please contact Nick Hammond, ASC Development Manager via email nick.hammond@wokingham.gov.uk

Strictly no Agencies.

- Closing date: 8^th December 2024,11pm                                           

- Interview date: W/C 16^th December 2024

Whilst this is a fixed term contract appointment, for anyone already employed by Wokingham Borough Council this would be classed as a secondment if successful.  Therefore, the usual permission requests for secondments apply and you must speak to your line manager in the first instance before applying.

If your application is shortlisted for an interview, you will be required to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage. Additionally, successful candidates must present proof upon receiving a job offer.

Please note that all offers are conditional and subject to the satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.

Please be aware that we will be reviewing the applications we receive on a daily basis, and we reserve the right to close the advert early if suitable candidates are identified.

Wokingham Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, other workers and volunteers to share this commitment. 

Wokingham is an equal opportunities employer.