We have an exciting opportunity to join our team here in Barnsley in the role of Subject Matter Expert. The Subject Matter Expert will share with colleagues in Business Intelligence and IT their expert Social Care knowledge to help shape and develop our systems and processes ensuring practitioners have the best tools to work with.  You will be our professional lead across the organisation supporting good quality children’s social work practice. Including a lead role our implementation of Signs of Safety and our new Stronger Together practice model.

The role will be closely aligned to the Quality Assurance team and will support the link between quality assurance, performance and learning.

The Subject Matter Expert will represent children’s services in working closely with IT and Business Intelligence with a key focus of Mosaic system and data improvement. Key responsibilities within this role include:

• Represent children’s services in working groups to scope and design change required using expert knowledge of children’s social care
• Evaluate and recommend best approach to achieve desired change based on consideration of risks and benefits
• Be children’s service link between IT and BI, to articulate requirements based on service need and statutory requirements
• Involvement in scoping of reporting functions to ensure the system can provide the information required
• Form part of data testing group, to ensure the system can provide accurate data sets  
• Be responsible for feeding into progress reports provided as part of business-as-usual arrangements
• Work with service to continually monitor, review, and improve the pathways and practitioner experience on MOSAIC
• Prioritise and allocate work within systems improvement team (trainer and data quality officers)
• Direct line management of systems improvement team

Here at Barnsley, we live and work by four important values: honesty, teamwork, excellent service, and taking pride in what we do. As part of our team, you can be assured we will support you in striving for excellence in your work. We prioritise learning and enabling you to achieve your potential.

For further information please contact Keeley Boud Head of Service Safeguarding and Quality Assurance,  keeleyboud@barnsley.gov.uk or our Strategic Practice Lead Jessiclowe@barnsley.gov.uk