Job description
Role: Health and Children in Care Data Analyst
Salary: Grade J £40,777 - £45,091 a year
Location: Council House, Derby
Hours: 37 hours a week
Closing Date: 22/12/2025
Contract Type: Permanent
If you’re motivated by using data to drive improvement, this Health & Children in Care Data Analyst role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. It’s a rewarding position where your analytical expertise and financial insight will strengthen income generation, enhance oversight of complex placement activity and support high-quality reporting.
Working closely with the Head of Service, Commissioning Manager and People’s Brokerage Manager within the Children’s Commissioning, Brokerage and Market Management team, the Health & Children in Care Data Analyst will play a central role in analysing placement trends, health contributions, and the financial performance of packages. You’ll also support sufficiency analysis, using Excel and internal systems to monitor demand, understand local capacity, and identify pressures and opportunities that inform planning and forecasting.
As part of a collaborative and forward-thinking service, you’ll help refine data processes, improve financial accuracy and contribute to the intelligence that shapes future commissioning activity. If you enjoy uncovering patterns, improving systems and delivering meaningful analysis, this Health & Children in Care Data Analyst role offers challenge, purpose and genuine opportunity for development.
Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.
What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:
• Flexible work/life balance scheme
• Hybrid working
• Modern office environment
• Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
• Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
• Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
• Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
• Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network
• Support for colleagues who are carers
The Opportunity
In the role of Health & Children in Care Data Analyst, here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact:
• Using data and Excel to analyse placement activity, costs and trends, helping the service understand current demand and future pressures.
• Tracking and managing income from health partners, ensuring contributions are invoiced accurately and on time.
• Producing clear financial and statistical reports that support planning, forecasting and senior management insight.
• Monitoring and reviewing of placement packages.
• Supporting sufficiency work by analysing local need, capacity and distance in Children in Care placements to highlight gaps and areas for improvement.
• Creating and improving processes that ensure data is accurate, consistent and easily accessible for the wider team.
About You
To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have…
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial and placement data.
• Experience producing clear, accurate reports to support operational and strategic decision making.
• Experience working with budgets, forecasts, income or financial monitoring.
• Confidence in working across multi-agency teams.
• Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to data accuracy.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Confidence in presenting data to managers, panels or partners.
• Ability to build positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• A proactive, solution focused approach and willingness to contribute to continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of Children’s Brokerage and Commissioning.
Next Steps
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