Health & Care Intelligence Specialist
Level 7 | Duration: 22 months
The masters degree level HCIS apprenticeship is for junior professionals who study the health of populations, plan, commission, manage, deliver, monitor and evaluate health and social care policies and services.
It is important to gain the technical, often statistical knowledge but just as key is the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders and the capability to utilise systems thinking techniques to understand complex situations and apply ethical standards. Thereby ensuring initiatives are effective and right.
The course is purpose designed, we have built on the feedback from our systems thinking apprenticeship and focused ruthlessly on making the course absolutely vocational, taught by practitioners and applying learned techniques directly in the workplace. There are no dusty academics here!
Course content
The accelerated training phase is 22 months including the assessment period. The format is:
- Tutor-led, interactive seminars via Teams or Zoom, with leading practitioners, typically a day a month
- Monthly 1-2-1 time with an experienced skills coach
- Professionally guided small group round tables
- Behavioural and pastoral support from a Learner Progress Adviser
- Online learning and self-study materials
- An individualised Workplace Development Plan focused on both learner and business needs
- Quarterly reviews with line managers
- Self-study
Modules cover
- The Health and Social Care System
- Personality, Stakeholders and Working Relationships
- Leadership and Management
- Project Leadership
- Information, Evidence and Recommendations
- Study Design and Methodologies
- Data analysis and Evidence Informing Decision Making
- Interpretation, Transfer and Dissemination of Information
- Finance, Economics and Planning
Projects cover
- Empowering Others through Training
- Leading A Change Project
- Project Identification and Proposal
- Writing a Report
Each presentation of the course is adjusted for the types of complex problems apprentices face at work and includes projects and assignments aligned to their real work.
“As the Data Analyst working for my hospital’s inpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship pharmacy team, the apprenticeship is helping me take on more responsibilities and contribute to national priorities like tackling antimicrobial resistance.
I am developing the skills to interpret complex data across systems and use it to improve antibiotic use and patient safety. The apprenticeship has enabled me to take on non-clinical responsibilities that would otherwise fall to pharmacists, allowing them to focus more on direct patient care.
I am now leading projects that improve how antimicrobial data is used across the acute hospital trust and I am preparing to be a lead investigator for a future research project. This work will focus on improving infection management for people who inject drugs, a patient group facing significant health equity challenges. The project aims to support more care at home and improve access to treatment.
We’re also looking at introducing automation and machine learning etc to extract data from patient’s clinical notes to assist with this project, therefore aligning with ‘analogue to digital’ within the 10 year plan.
The apprenticeship is equipping me with the tools to a make a difference in both service delivery and patient outcomes.” HCIS apprentice, 2025
Final starts under the current apprenticeship levy funding arrangement will be in December 2025. There will continue to be privately funded starts (and starts for those aged under 22 years old) in 2026.
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