Senior Resource Planning Analyst

Salary: Grade C - £30,022 (National Framework) or £35,191 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £529 per annum for those working from home
Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week
Contract Type: 12 Months Fixed Term or Secondment Opportunity
Closing date: Monday 25th September 2023 at 11.59pm

About Us

We’re the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we work to improve health and adult social care in England.

Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system, recognising when services perform well, as well as encouraging improvements and taking action over poorer care, where necessary.

One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network and LGBT+ Equality Network.

We are now looking for a Senior Resource Planning Analyst to join us on a full-time basis, for a 12 month fixed-term contract or secondment.

The Benefits

• 27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus eight bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
• Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
• Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars
• Discounted gym vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!
• Equipment for homeworking

Why this could be a great role for you

This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented data analyst with both quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to join our team and make a difference.

You will have the chance to take your career to the next level, positively impacting our abilities to deliver better care to more people right across the country.

As well as joining a friendly, dedicated team, you will receive a range of benefits that will help you achieve that all important work-life balance, so you can flourish outside of work too!


What you will bring…

To be considered as a Senior Resource Planning Analyst, you will need:

• Experience within an analyst role
• Experience of interpreting and presenting data sets to a wide range of audiences
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
• Technical competence to design and/or develop effective planning tools and meaningful MI
• Excellent communication skills, with experience of preparing and presenting high-level reports on complex issues
• Advanced IT skills including experience of Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Projects
• A first degree, or equivalent experience within a similar role

What you will be doing…

As a Senior Resource Planning Analyst, you will support our ongoing national resource planning capabilities through the development and maintenance of our national resource planning tool.

Ensuring our tool is aligned to our processes and procedures, you will enable our inspection directorates to create informed and realistic inspection programmes through the provision of robust management information.

You will enable us to deliver great forecasting and predictive modelling for resources and demand. Maintaining operational resource forecasts and models, you will support the Performance Practice Manager by reviewing and tracking progress our delivery against forecasts and highlighting where delivery is not on track.

Your role will also involve:

• Contributing to annual planning processes
• Taking a medium-term perspective for inspection resources
• Producing reports for inspectorate teams
• Reviewing our progress against our plans
• Analysing and recommending action to positively impact delivery schedules

Next steps

If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please get in touch with our team or include a note in your application.

We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

So, if you’d like to join us as a Senior Resource Planning Analyst please apply via the button shown.

Other organisations may call this role Resource Planning Analyst, Resource Planning and Performance Analyst, Resource and Performance Analyst, Resource Planning Forecasting Analyst, or Resource and Performance Forecasting Analyst.