Job Description

How you'll make a difference:

As a Health and Care Intelligence Specialist Apprentice, you will support the public health division and wider council to deliver on commitments to promote healthier lifestyles and reduce inequalities within the population it serves.



Working as part of a team of specialists, you will help develop the range, quality and availability of public health intelligence. Your work supports the information needs of the Public Health Team and its partners within South Gloucestershire Council and across the Integrated Care System.


What you will be doing:

While undertaking the 36-month Health Care Intelligence Specialist Level 7 Apprenticeship with training provider JGA Group, you will play a key role in the assessment of need within the South Gloucestershire population, reviewing and generating evidence, supporting service evaluation, and promoting best practice in the collection and use of data.

It will be key for you to provide professional statistical advice, ensuring that complex statistics are explained and understood by non-statistical professionals, enabling and facilitating evidence-based decision making. You will take responsibility for specifying requirements with customers, providing advice and guidance on the appropriate methods surrounding the collection, storage, analysis and dissemination of analysis and intelligence. Regularly, you will be linking, analysing and interpreting complex health, care and population data using the most appropriate specialist health analytical and epidemiological techniques. You will have the opportunity to support the maintenance and development of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment and other health needs assessments. As part of your learning journey, you will contribute to the skills, training and dissemination of information to improve intelligence and analytical capacity within the council. When required, you will maintain and assist in the development of a library of electronic reference material e.g. populations, organisational and clinical codes, geographical boundaries and postcodes.
What we need from you:
As a level 7 apprentice, you will already have relevant experience of working in a similar environment and demonstrated and aptitude for working with data and generating intelligence. Qualification in GCSE English and maths at grade C or 4 and above (we accept Functional Skills Level 2 in English and maths).
You must have one of the following to be accepted onto the programme:

Undergraduate degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM). Social sciences (e.g. psychology, geography, economics, accounting) undergraduate degree with research methods and/or statistics modules and an undergraduate dissertation that included a research data analysis component. Level 4 or higher qualification in STEM or a related field that includes substantial mathematical content (e.g., Higher National Certificate/Diploma in computing, engineering, science). Professional registration with FEDIP through the Association of Healthcare Analysts (AphA) at Practitioner or Senior Practitioner level. Equivalent analytical work experience.

What you need to know:
You will be completing a Level 7 Health and Care Intelligence Specialist apprenticeship standard which will provide you with a highly transferable set of knowledge, skills and behaviours, which you gain by working for us. All candidates that successfully reach the interview stages will be required to provide a 10-minute presentation as part of the recruitment process. Candidates who do not provide a presentation at interview will not proceed through the recruitment process.

Interviews will be held 10th June 2025.

As part of this training route, you need to undertake a basic skills assessment meeting as part of the selection process by the training provider, JGA Group. This is to ensure you meet their entry criteria and the Education Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) apprenticeship eligibility requirements. As per the apprenticeship funding rules, successful applications must have the right to work in England and not be in any other kind of full-time education (including being enrolled on any other apprenticeship programme).


When you aren't learning with JGA Group, the rest of your time will be spent with us learning on the job, where you will gain real-world experience, and apply your learning as part of the Population Health team.



The Population Health team consists of Public Health intelligence specialists with a variety of qualitative and quantitative expertise, and experience using a range of software, such as excel, R, NVivo and PowerBI. You'll work in a supportive team environment with regular catch ups, peer support and opportunities to build important working relationships with colleagues within the team and across the health and care system. This will be in addition to the support you can draw on from current and past apprentices through the apprenticeship programme.



Throughout the apprenticeship, your JGA allocated tutor will undertake regular reviews with you to make sure you are on track and happy. In addition to your tutor, you will receive workplace mentorship and supervision. This will include of regular 121s to agree a workplan and prioritise a workload to meets the apprenticeship standard and needs of the business.



We understand this is a lot of information and this apprenticeship might not be for everyone, but if you've read the above and are still excited about this opportunity we would love to hear from you.


How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different:
s part of our benefits package, you will receive

generous annual leave (

pro rata), employee

wellbeing support

and you will have access to a range of

staff discounts

, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. We recognise that our

diverse team

of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.


We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of. We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life. We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential. We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We're making a difference, be part of it!

For further information about the programme, click the following link: JGA- Health and Care Intelligence Specialist Apprenticeship and Eligibility Guide



To view the full job description, please click this link: Apprenticeship - Health and Care Intelligence Specialist Apprentice 0525