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There has never been a more exciting time to join Wirral Council. Weve 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 Wirrals 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 twoyear 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 outcomefocused 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.
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This is a fixed term contract until March 2027.
This post requires a DBS check. The Safer Recruitment & Employment Policy and the Disclosures for Recruitment Procedure can be found at : your skills knowledge or experience looks a little different from what we have identified and you think you can bring value to the role wed love to learn more about you as subject to the skills knowledge or experience levels within the candidate pool we may explore a traineeship for this role.
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Please note that in accordance with the Councils 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 reappoint any employee who has left under the terms of the Councils 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.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications.
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