Health and Care Intelligence Apprentice

Summary

Public Health is looking for a Practitioner to join the team, who will be supported to complete a master’s degree level Health and Care Intelligence apprenticeship. You will use complex information systems and data sets, processing data to improve health with a focus on place-based intelligence, population health, and health care planning.

Annual wage

£34,667 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

£34,667 to £37,068 per annum

Training course

Advanced clinical practitioner (integrated degree) (level 7)

Hours

Monday to Friday. Flexi-time working between 8.00am - 5:30pm. Total hours per week: 35.

35 hours a week

Possible start date

Saturday 4 January

Duration

3 Years

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

You'll work closely with Public Health Consultants, Senior Public Health Practitioners, members of the wider Public Health Team and colleagues across the County Council. More broadly, you'll collaborate with local health system partners including NHS Herefordshire & Worcestershire, local NHS Trusts, District Councils, West Mercia Police, academic partners, Voluntary & Community Sector organisations, and communities. Your work will advocate & improve health & care intelligence; you'll practically apply your learning from the Health & Care Intelligence Specialist apprenticeship within your Practitioner role.

You'll undertake the Level 7 Health & Care Intelligence Specialist delivered by JGA Group, over a three-year period, starting in January 2025. You will join a cohort of eight Level 7 apprentices supported by OHID Midlands and NHSE WT+E Midlands. You'll be supported with work-based projects across the Worcestershire Public Health team, a workplace manager & mentor to achieve the knowledge, skills and behaviours being assessed.

This role provides on-the-job training for junior analysts, practitioners or commissioners who would like to progress their career into more senior posts. You'll be committed to learn new skills through the Level 7 apprenticeship, have the ability to complete intensive, modular learning and be practically minded, translating that learning to opportunities in the workplace. You'll have excellent numerical, data & analytical skills, with attention to detail and an interest in public health, health improvement, health and care planning or commissioning. This post requires a good understanding of information governance and maintaining confidentiality in an analytical service.

It's essential the post holder has the following experience:

Significant experience in a Public Health/Health Improvement role
Substantial experience of managing projects to a successful outcome
Substantial experience of working in a multi-agency environment with considerable experience of developing relationships with all local partners including communities & individuals
Substantial experience of working in a highly visible role, communicating with a range of audiences
Significant experience of implementing strategy & policy in at least one key public health area
Significant experience and understanding of health inequalities.
Significant experience of working with & successfully engaging hard-to-reach groups and communities
Significant experience of working with health or/& social care practitioners

It's essential the post holder has the following knowledge:

Expert current knowledge of key policies relating to Public Health
Ability to work flexibly in a rapidly changing policy environment
Excellent verbal & written communication skills
Excellent Interpersonal & facilitation skills including presentation skills
Detailed Record keeping & report writing skills
Able to use Microsoft office applications at an advanced level
Able to influence & engage those to whom there is no direct line of accountability, being able to motivate others & manage change
Able to identify & engage in key partnerships to produce health gain
Able to prioritise work, manage time & work under pressure to deliver to deadlines
Able to understand complex information & situations in order to inform strategy development & implementation
Solutions focused attitude & demonstrable conflict resolution skills

Where you’ll work

County Hall

Spetchley Road

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 2NP

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

JGA LIMITED

Your training course

Advanced clinical practitioner (integrated degree) (level 7)

Equal to master’s degree

Course contents

Practise with a high level of autonomy and be accountable for your decisions and omissions; work in line with your code of professional conduct, professional standards and scope of practice

Assess individuals and families using person-centred approaches and a range of assessment methods, for example including history taking, holistic examination, requesting and interpreting diagnostic tests or conducting health and care needs assessments

Use multi-agency and inter-professional resources, critical thinking, independent decision-making skills, problem solving skills and professional judgement to formulate and act on potential diagnoses

Assess individuals for risk factors and their impact on health and wellbeing; facilitate and encourage individuals to manage their own health and make informed choices; support individuals with an ongoing plan for preventative and rehabilitative measures

Use expertise in clinical reasoning to plan and manage day to day, complex and unpredictable episodes of care; evaluate events to improve future care and service delivery; discharge or refer appropriately to other services

Initiate and evaluate a range of interventions which may include prescribing of medicines, therapies and care

Ensure safety of individuals and families through the appropriate management of risk

Seek out and apply contemporary, high-quality evidence-based resources and existing and emerging technology as appropriate.

Recognise and respond to individuals’ motivation, development stage and capacity; work in partnership to empower individuals to participate in decisions about care designed to maximise their health and wellbeing

Assess own learning needs and engage in self-directed learning to maximise potential to lead and transform care and services

Work collaboratively to identify and meet the learning and development needs of health or care professionals; support practice education; act as a role model and mentor

Advocate and contribute to the development of an organisational culture that supports life-long learning and development, evidence-based practice and succession planning.

Demonstrate the impact of advanced clinical practice within your scope of practice and the wider community

Use your advanced clinical expertise to provide consultancy across professional and service boundaries; drive service development and influence clinical practices to enhance quality productivity and value

Provide professional leadership and supervision in situations that are complex and unpredictable; instill confidence and clinical credibility in others; work across boundaries to promote person-centred care

Actively seek and participate in peer review of your own and others’ practice across traditional health and social care boundaries

Identify the need for change; generate practice innovations; act as a role model; lead new practice and service redesign solutions in response to individuals’ feedback and service need

Establish and exercise your individual scope of practice within legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct to manage risk and enhance the care experience

Identify and manage risk in own and others’ clinical practice; be receptive to challenge and demonstrate the ability to challenge others.

Engage in research activity; develop and apply evidence-based strategies that are evaluated to enhance the quality, safety, productivity and value for money of health and care

Evaluate and audit your own and others’ clinical practice and act on the findings

Alert individuals and organisations to gaps in evidence; initiate and/or lead evidence-based activity that aims to enhance clinical practice and contribute to the evidence base; support others to develop their research capability

Critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of research, evaluation and audit; apply this within your own and others’ practice; act as a bridge between clinical and research practice; promote the use of evidence-based standards, policies and clinical guidelines

Develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes

Disseminate your work through appropriate media to further advance clinical practices.

Your training plan

Level 7 Advanced clinical practitioner (integrated degree) apprenticeship standard
This role will be based at County Hall, Worcester, with training being completed remotely. This will make up 40% of the 35 hours the Practitioner will work a week.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English Language (grade 4 - 9 (C - A*))
Mathematics (grade 4 - 9 (C - A*))
Public Health (Or Equivalent Experience) (grade Pass)

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

Management or Project Management (grade Pass)
UKPHR Practitioner registration (grade Obtained or working towards)

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
Non judgemental
Patience

Other requirements

If you are a care leaver and you meet the minimum essential qualification criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview. Please indicate that you are a care leaver on your application.

About this company

Worcestershire County Council delivers an array of services which support our residents and businesses. These include providing social care of some of the most vulnerable in society, helping the next generation get the best start in life through education, investing in our transport network, disposing of household waste sustainably, provision of Library service + country parks and supporting health + wellbeing within our communities.

https://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

The successful candidate will achieve a level 7 degree in the Health & Care Intelligence Specialist course. Possible opportunity for permanency within the organisation following completion of apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Worcestershire County Council

Samantha Collison

SCollison@worcestershire.gov.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000278720.

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Closes in 13 days (Sunday 13 October at 11:59pm)

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