About the role
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough High Impact Use Service is looking to recruit a fixed term 0.5 fte Senior Insight Analyst to provide data and a broad range of reports and service intelligence. The High Impact Use service aims to support frequent attenders at Addenbrooke’s, Peterborough City and Hinchingbrooke Hospital A&E departments who are coming for social and environmental reasons rather than or as well as health reasons. Working in partnership with the ICB, Cambridgeshire County Council’s Communities team is hosting the service which launched in October 2024 for an initial pilot period until March 2026.
Working collaboratively with system partners, the Senior Insight Analyst will research and collate data and insights from a wide range of sources to help service leads understand the direct and indirect impact of this innovative approach on individuals and on wider services. This is a chance to make a real difference for vulnerable members of our community.
The High Impact Use service a hybrid working team - i.e. employees split their working time between home and a County Council office – our team’s main office is at New Shire Hall with team meetings at other County Council offices.
The post will be jointly hosted by the Policy and Insight Team, which is a team that provides a range of policy, strategy, insight and research for services and partners. You will have support of colleagues with similar and complimentary skills. The post will be line manged by a Policy and Insight Team Manager.
For further information about the role, please see the attached job specification.
If you have any questions or would like to arrange an informal chat, please contact Joe Gilbert or Mary Barnes (joe.gilbert@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or mary.barnes@cambridgeshire.gov.uk)
Please note: The application period for this role closes on 30th March. We expect interviews to take place on the week commencing 22nd April.
Your application will be shortlisted against the essential and desirable criteria in the attached job description and person specification. Please ensure that you read this document carefully and provide us with a personal statement that demonstrates your skills experience and attitude.
Whilst Cambridgeshire County Council’s Recruitment Hub will ask you to outline your employment history; the personal statement is the primary evidence that we will use in determining whether to invite a candidate to interview. Attached to this advert is some guidance around the expectations for this statement.
What will you be doing?
As a Senior Insight Analyst, you will be responsible for designing and delivering appropriate data sharing and reporting for the service. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across the Council and with health partners to ensure delivery of the needs of the HIU team.

Your role will include:

• Drive the use of research-based evidence and explore innovative ways of extracting and visualising data and information to support services to make informed decisions
• Unlock and analyse data to support the Council and our partners
• Lead projects to provide robust, timely and accurate analysis
• Respond effectively as the needs of the Council and its partners develop
• Working closely with the service to understand their needs and respond to requests
• Visualise data to help non-data users to understand key insights
• Leading on the provision of insight reports and benchmarking information.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of the services you support, their policies and practice as well as the underlying Management Information systems that they use
• Work with partners to plan and prioritise work
• Presenting analysis, insights and findings to a variety of stakeholders

About you
Can you help data make a difference?
Are you ambitious, innovative, good with data and passionate with an enthusiasm for supporting evidence led decision making. If so, we may have the role you’ve been searching for!
We are looking for an individual with strong technical skills, who has a sound understanding of a range of data sources and can practically apply those skills to embed new data solutions. You will have experience of leading projects and supporting others, as well as excellent organisational skills.
Good communication skills, both oral and written, are essential for this role, as the post holder will be required to present complex and sometimes technical information in appropriate forms for a wide range of internal and external audiences.
You will have relevant previous experience in a similar field and a relevant bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) as a minimum. High level of competence with specialist data analytical software are also desirable. The successful applicant will be well supported to further develop their subject knowledge and technical skillset.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network ‘IDEAL’ and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more

• Drive the use of research-based evidence and explore innovative ways of extracting and visualising data and information to support services to make informed decisions
• Unlock and analyse data to support the Council and our partners
• Lead projects to provide robust, timely and accurate analysis
• Respond effectively as the needs of the Council and its partners develop
• Working closely with the service to understand their needs and respond to requests
• Visualise data to help non-data users to understand key insights
• Leading on the provision of insight reports and benchmarking information.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of the services you support, their policies and practice as well as the underlying Management Information systems that they use
• Work with partners to plan and prioritise work
• Presenting analysis, insights and findings to a variety of stakeholder