Systems Team
Summary
We are the Systems Team, based in Adults Social Care. We support all users of our Social Care Case Management System - Care Director. These users are from both Adults and Childrens Social Care. We are responsible for system maintenance and development, SQL report writing, running a helpdesk to assist our users, project support and document creation.
We are a small team of 3, and we support approximately 693 system users. There are some 6,600 active clients in the system, all using services West Berkshire Council provides.
The Opportunity
Working with the Systems Team for a two day placement you will gain a variety of experience which will include:
- Systems training - how to deliver training to system users
- General support - supporting system users via our helpdesk
- Report writing - using SQL skills to write reports to extract data from the system
- System development - creating new dashboards and documents within a test system
- ICT experience of using a large IT system at a Council
The Ideal Candidate
You will have the following attributes:
- Strong interest in ICT and the use of systems
- An interest in Social Care and what a Council offers in this area
- Good communication skills
- ICT skills with programming and /or reporting languages such as Python, SQL, xml.
- Willingness to learn new things and share ideas.
Our offer to you
- We offer a supportive working environment
- We offer training relating to the tasks you will be undertaking including access to our online learning platform
- The opportunity to gain experience in an area of work that interests you
About us
West Berkshire council is a forward thinking and ambitious council. We have a positive attitude to our work and focus on excellent teamwork to deliver award winning services for our residents and businesses.
We employ over 1,500 members of staff corporately, plus additional members of staff working across our local schools and education settings. We offer a wide array of opportunities for training and development and varied career progression opportunities.
Our staff support the delivery of a wide range of services on behalf of the Council. Ranging from garden waste collection, planning and roadworks to caring for those in our communities. Everything we do is focused on our priority for improvement and delivering our values of fairness, integrity and being customer focused.
For more information about this placement you can email amanda.povey1@westberks.gov.uk
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