• Employer: Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
• Salary: £37,035 - £39,513
• Location: Mallory, 2 Alice Ker Square, Wirral, Hybrid Working
• Contract: Temporary
• Working Pattern: Full Time/Flexible Hours
• Hours: 36 hours per week.
• DBS Check: Enhanced
• Closing Date: 15/06/2025 at 23:59
• Reference: PH/25/310641
  There has never been a more exciting time to join Wirral Council. We’ve got ambitious targets to meet and to achieve everything we have promised to our residents, we need people who are ready to deliver the very best for our communities and show how they can #BeTheDifference. Our vision is to secure the best possible future for our residents, defined by the community prosperity we create and supported by our excellent people and services. If you strive to #BeTheDifference and want to be at the heart of our change and improvement journey, then this could be the perfect job for you.
  An exciting opportunity has arisen within Wirral’s Public Health team to work within its Qualitative Insight Team. The Qualitative Insight Team work with residents to gather their thoughts, experiences, and ideas, ensuring that their voices are heard when informing council policy and decision making. The team supports the delivery of the Health and Wellbeing strategy, in which residents’ voices are a key strand. The post is for a two-year fixed period and the postholder will be part of the Public Health Team, working under the guidance of the Qualitative Insight Programme Manager.
  Drawing on your specialist knowledge and experience in research, you will be responsible for designing and conducting robust analysis for a variety of insight research projects and wider thematic analysis. This includes the development of research analysis methodology including analysis of data through meaningful inferences, text analysis, coding and indexing, data structuring and labelling. The postholder will be required to work routinely in close collaboration with the four qualitative researchers and senior officers to support the design and delivery of robust outcome-focused insight and research projects for a variety of behaviour change interventions.
  The postholder will be expected to apply academic knowledge and skills, while working pragmatically with consideration for organisational cultures and resource constraints. The role will require proactive and effective joined up working across the Qualitative Insight Team, as well as close working with the Public Health Intelligence Team, Public Health Delivery Team and other members of the Public Health Team.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Development of research analysis methodology for the projects including analysis of data through meaningful inferences, text analysis, coding, and indexing, structuring and labelling data. Undertaking data analysis, including large existing data sets, using Excel and NVivo.
• Support to assess the suitability of interventions, using insight and research.
• Analysis of patterns and connections, theme identification and working to evaluate if research objective questions can be answered from the collected data.
• Ability to utilise qualitative data analysis methods including content analysis from responses from interviews.
• Narrative analysis to analyse content from various sources such as interviews and observations in the field.
• Discourse analysis, to analyse interactions with people, and the social context in which the communication between the researcher and respondent occurred.
• Grounded theory, using the data to explain why a phenomenon is happening, and studying similar cases in different settings and using the data to derive causal explanations.
• Assist in the design, development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation frameworks (outcome focused) for all insight and research projects.
• Clearly communicate analysis findings in a clear in concise manner, both in verbal and written formats.
• Assist in the development of the Qualitative Insight Repository and regularly undertake secondary analysis of Health and Wellbeing insights which will be hosted on the Qualitative Insight Repository.

WORKING AT WIRRAL

You’ll also want to know what it’s like to work here so, as a start:
Our values are more than just pieces of paper on our walls! We’ve all played a role in developing these, so they reflect the immense pride we have in what we do, what matters to us, what inspires us and inform how we think, approach things and behave.
We believe in ensuring staff are well looked after, staff wellbeing is a priority for us. We’re serious about recognising and rewarding people for the great things they do. You’ll benefit from our track record of developing, growing and investing in our people.
We have a range of staff benefits including staff discounts, an excellent pension scheme which includes a generous employer contribution rate, immediate life cover and ill-health protection. We have a strong flexible working approach, hybrid working, family-friendly employment initiatives and an annual leave package starting with 28 days leave plus public holidays.
We have an inclusive, engaged culture, everyone has a voice, everyone is valued for their contribution and understands the role they play in delivering our strategic priorities.
Each voice is heard, each contribution valued. We embrace diversity in our workforce and recognise it is critical to our success. We support an inclusive culture that champions differences and nurtures a sense of belonging. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, who share our values and our commitment to inclusion to apply for roles with us.
We want you to be your best at work, we create the conditions to help you thrive and we mirror this in our recruitment process. If you’d like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process to make it barrier-free and as accessible as possible please contact recruitment@wirral.gov.uk
Please note that in accordance with the Council’s policy, employees who are in a formal redeployment situation will be considered in the first instance for all vacancies.
It is Council policy not to re-appoint any employee who has left under the terms of the Council’s Early Voluntary Retirement (EVR) scheme or who have left with a voluntary severance (VS) package, unless in exceptional circumstances.
Applications will be accepted until midnight on the closing date.
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