Lead Statutory Return and Report Officer

Job Details
Are you an excellent team member with good backend SQL, MS Excel skills as well as report writing skills in Power BI. Are you able to generate insights to develop our Children Social Care and Education services?
A fantastic one year fixed term or secondment opportunity has arisen for a Lead Statutory Return and Report Officer to work within our Data & Intelligence team in People Department at Enfield Council. Within this role you will lead timely and accurate statutory returns submission, performance development, and analysis service within the children’s social care and education services by supporting and improving processes around analysis and production of reports relating to support strategic direction of the People department and improve operational activity, ensuring timely and accurate production of management information. You will work in a team include other statutory returns and report officers. You will be responsible to collate, manage and analyse data from various teams and services across the People directorate, as well as subsequent production of information reports for the purpose of
service performance, statutory returns and the improvement of outcomes for children and young people in Enfield. The post is full time based in Enfield Civic Centre (hybrid working possible). We are also currently working on children social care transformation programme and you will check quality of data, develop reports, generate insight to improve services and will submit statutory returns by working with services.
Lead Statutory Return and Report Officer will be responsible for producing wide range of reports using MS word, power point, Power BI and using wide range of analytical techniques such as SQL, Power BI, Business Objects and informing areas for improvement, while communicating to a wide range of stakeholders. The role will ensure integrity of data and benchmarks our performance against national and regional peers. You will also work with children social care and education services to improve data quality in the Liquidlogic Children's Case Management and Access Synergy education systems.

We are looking for an experienced candidate with children social care and education systems, combined with the ability to communicate and influence people from a range of children and education professionals and other stakeholders. They will have demonstrable experience in presenting reports for a variety of audiences. Given the fast-paced and demanding environment, strong organisational skills are essential.

About You
You are aware of children and education datasets. We are seeking candidates with advanced knowledge of MS Office and reporting programmes such as SQL, Business objects and Power BI.
Interested candidates must understand confidentiality issues within a statutory service framework and have knowledge of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (and how this applies to client records and information sharing.
You will be a good communicator and have excellent inter-personal skills with experience of producing high quality performance and/or statistical data, submitting statutory returns timely and accurately and presenting information to a wide audience.
An excellent level of literacy and numeracy is required for this role. Candidates should have experience of using reporting tools such as Power BI, Business Objects or other similar packages.
You an excellent team member with good backend SQL, excel skills as well as report writing skills in Power BI and the role will require good skills in insight report writing in word documents.

Contact Details -
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Karen Hough on +442081321236 for an informal discussion or to arrange a visit to the team.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Maria Evangelou at maria.evangelou@enfield.gov.uk.
Enfield’s Social Care Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best and deliver high quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people. It brings our recruitment, professional development and support into the one portal for social care staff to see what we have to offer and how we are supporting them to continue to learn and develop on a professional basis. For more information please visit https://new.enfield.gov.uk/centreofexcellence/about-us/
“This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment”.
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Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:

- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
- A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
- Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
- Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
- Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
- 1 month's paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children's Social Care.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, click here to find out more.
If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.