Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Leicestershire County Hall, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker, 1-2 days per week in County Hall
Salary: £31,074 – £37,950 per annum
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 3rd March 2025
Interview Date(s): 18th March 2025
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can make a difference?
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to support the development of our Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC), which will help address health inequalities through building research evidence around the wider determinants of health. The Leicestershire HDRC is a National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded research team led collaboratively by the County Council alongside partners from local universities.
We are looking for a Research & Insight Officer to help us develop our research infrastructure, capability and capacity to enable us to understand and tackle the wider determinants of health. You will join a team that will work to achieve our project milestones over our 5-year plan, with the goal of reducing health inequalities.
You will support activity across each of our six pillars of culture change; Public and Community Involvement, Engagement and Participation, Data, Governance, and Infrastructure, Research Training and Skills Development, Collaboration with anchor institutions, Monitoring, evaluation and improvement, and Knowledge Mobilisation.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
* Be educated to degree level in a relevant subject or have an equivalent level of relevant experience.
* Have experience of planning, developing and implementing research and insight projects and advising managers and colleagues on a range of research or business intelligence issues.
* Have knowledge of research within public health / wider determinants of health
* Have knowledge of research methodologies and models, approaches, techniques, critiques and methods relevant to the wider determinants of health.
* Have skills in research and analysing/interpreting data, deriving meaning and presenting it effectively.
* Understand the complexities and challenges of working with partners.
* Possess good interpersonal skills and the ability to develop effective relationships with staff at all levels.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Dr Sarah McNeill
Telephone: 01163059090
Email: sarah.mcneill@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
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.
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