Senior Data Analyst - HOTH
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Senior Data Analyst - HOTH
- Job Location: Prism House, Waterwells, Gloucester
- Salary: £41,771 - £47,181 per annum (pro-rata)
- Hours per Week: 18.50
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 15/02/2026
- Job Requisition Number: 13014
- This post is not open to job share
We are excited to announce a brand‑new opportunity within our newly created Harm Outside the Home (HOTH) Team.
The role of Senior Data Analyst will sit within our HOTH Hub, based at Waterwells, Gloucester.
This is an exciting time to join the service as we continue to develop and implement innovative approaches to supporting and protecting children at risk of harm outside the home.
Reward and Support
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
- between £41,771 - £47,181 per annum subject to experience
- flexible and agile working opportunities
- 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
- option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
- family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
- supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
- an in-house Occupational Health service
- employee discount scheme
- cycle to work scheme
- links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- career development and qualification opportunities
- access to our Social Work Academy
Right child, right support, right time, every time
In our recent inspection in June 2025, our Children’s Services have been officially judged as ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ elements. Ofsted also said ‘Leaders have set out a clear vision for delivering success for children, by modelling values and creating a culture where the workforce, children and families feel valued and heard; risk is managed confidently with bottom lines clearly set out.’
This marks an important step in our journey to improve outcomes for our children and young people, and we remain focused on our mission: to continue building on this success and ensure that every child and young person in our county has the opportunity to thrive.
Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.
We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.
About The Team
Social workers within the Hub work closely with district Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams, acting as HOTH specialists to support Lead Child Protection Practitioners. The team strengthen safeguarding practice through robust analysis, informed decision-making, and collaborative working. As part of this, the Hub leads on key processes such as the HOTH Daily Meeting and Multi-Agency Child Exploitation (MACE) and will soon introduce a pre-MACE approach to enhance early intervention.
About the Role
The Senior Data Analyst will play a pivotal role in the Hub, delivering high-quality analysis of trends and patterns of harm, enabling data-driven decisions and supporting strategic responses to exploitation and extra-familial risk.
This is a part-time role (18.5 hours per week), with days and times negotiable within the working week. No antisocial hours are required. We offer flexible hybrid working arrangements, so you will work both from our Gloucester office and from home.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team committed to improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young people.
This post is subject to a full DBS check (enhanced adults and children). In addition, due to the nature and location of the work base, the successful applicant will require NPPV2 (Non‑Police Personnel Vetting) clearance. Further information on this vetting process can be found here:Police National Vetting Service | Warwickshire Police .
While NPPV2 vetting is being completed, the successful candidate will be temporarily based within the MASH team, working alongside a colleague from the Child Exploitation Team (who work from MASH on a rota basis) and in close partnership with Police Analysts from the Force Intelligence Bureau.
How to apply
For an informal chat about this role, please contact Claire Connolly at Claire.Connolly@gloucestershire.gov.uk. or please put an application in before the closing date.
We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.
Interviews are due to take place in person 23rd Febuary 2026. Please note this will be the only day for interviews.
If you would like to find out more about our Children's Service please take a look here: Children's Social Care Careers | Gloucestershire County Council
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to CSWrecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error.
By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential shortlisting criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
*a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior). To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Senior Data Analyst Job Profile
Additional Job Profile Information - HOTH Senior Data Analyst
This position is subject to a DBS check and police vetting.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.