Children’s Services Performance

Brighter Futures for Children

 

Children’s Services Performance Analysts x 2

 

Children’s Social Care Analyst &

Education Analyst

 

About us

Brighter Futures for Children (BFfC) is a not-for-profit company, owned by, but independent of, Reading Borough Council. Although we are independent, we are very much part of the Reading Family. Our people enjoy all of benefits as other Council employees including membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and continuous service. 

We work closely with partners in the local community and key organisations including Reading Borough Council, policy, public health, and voluntary groups. We are responsible for the delivery of children’s social care, early help & prevention and education services.  

Our main aim is to protect and enhance the lives of the children of Reading. We help families find long-term solutions to ensure children lead happy, healthy, and successful lives.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for you to work as a Performance Analyst within the Performance and Data Team. We are looking for 2 Performance Analysts to support and promote the effective use of data. One role will have a focus on Family Help and Children’s Social Care whilst the other will have a focus on Education data including special education needs and disability, attendance and inclusion. You will be responsible for developing extracts and reports using Power BI/SQL/Excel, analysing output and monitoring the quality of the associated data, liaising with service colleagues to increase awareness of internal processes and best practice, and encouraging the effective use of our tools and reporting.

The role includes:

• Proactively promoting the accurate, timely collection and use of performance data
• Developing, maintaining and enhancing datasets, models and reports from multiple data sources
• Extracting and transforming data on the SQL Server platform
• Compilation of the statutory returns and benchmarking information for both external and internal review
• Monitoring and validating the integrity and quality of the data supporting children’s services
• Cleansing and correcting data within an agreed framework of activities and approvals
• Working with operational staff to improve and maintain data recording
• Providing advice and guidance on the effective use of our case management tool and associated reporting
• Providing recommendations for improvements including reporting scope/content and impact assessment of potential application configuration changes
• Assisting with the production of information and commentary, presenting data appropriately for the target audience
• Liaising with external organisations and internal teams to deliver our data and services.
• Documenting processes and maintaining system change logs

 

 

Skills/experience required:

• Either experience of working within
  • a social care organisation and familiarity with family help processes and terminology or
  • an education context including awareness of school, special education needs process
• A comprehensive understanding of
  • A social case management system (Mosaic preferred) or
  • An education management system (Synergy preferred)
• Working with Power BI – including Power BI Desktop, Power Query and Power BI Service, or experience of an alternative reporting technology platform
• Use of standard Microsoft desktop tools, especially Excel
• Use of Microsoft SQL Server toolset – e.g. SSMS, SQL/T-SQL, SSRS, SSIS – of benefit
• A precise and accurate approach to data tasks, with a good attention to detail and a tenacious attitude to problem resolution and task completion
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels across the organisation, including generation of presentation materials
• A desire to develop your technical data skill set
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a wider team
• Awareness of additional applications, tools and utilities associated with children’s data, wellbeing and education of additional benefit.

Our Offer:

A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:

• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Incremental holidays starting with 26 days plus public holidays (rising to 33 after 10 years’ service)
• Discounted Child Care (on site nursery)
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Season ticket loans
• Salary Sacrifice Car Lease Scheme
• A range of local shopping discounts
• Remote/hybrid working considered.

 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Brighter Futures for Children to be a great place to work and to ensure that our children, young people and families are represented in leadership roles and positions of power. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.

 

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our children, young people and families so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

 

Asking for Adjustments

Brighter Futures for Children is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.

 

If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please let us know.

 

Closing date: 9 March 2025

Interview date: To be confirmed.

We look forward to hearing from you!