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.,

• 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., 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.


• 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.
  
  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., Our Children's services When Children's Services get involved in the life of a child, our priority is to make sure our social workers have the support, time, and resources they need to provide an excellent quality of service - the kind of service we ourselves would wish to receive. We're committed to social workers having case loads that give them time to focus on relationship-based practice and we're growing our workforce to reflect this. We want to maintain an environment where practice can flourish and we offer:
• Good quality supervision
• A wide range of training and development opportunities
• A visible and responsive leadership team
We've adopted Signs of Safety as our practice framework. This is a strength based and safety-focused approach which prioritises direct work and relationships with the child and their network. Our commitment to this includes training staff at all levels in Children's Services. We also use this strengths based approach in the support and line management of our staff. https://wokinghamjobs.jgp.co.uk/ Careers in adult social care Adult Social Care makes a positive impact on so many lives. Working in social care is a fulfilling job that transforms lives for the better. With your help, people will have the ongoing support they need to live their lives to the full and help continue to deliver our outstanding services Roles are varied and every day is different. Working in adult social care will give you a huge sense of pride and satisfaction at the end of every working day. You won't find a more rewarding job.

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!,
• Excellent pension benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Annual leave - starting at 26 days (plus bank holidays dependent on grade and working hours)
• Training and support
• Free eye tests
• Free gym access
• Free advice and counselling through our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Relocation package worth up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility
• Employment referral scheme of £1000 for successful candidates (subject to eligibility)
• We pay professional registration fees for Social Workers and Occupational Therapists
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