Health & Care Intelligence Specialist
Level 7 | Duration: 22 months
The master’s degree-level HCIS apprenticeship is for early-career professionals working in health and social care who analyse population health, support service planning and commissioning, and help monitor and evaluate policy and service delivery.
The course has been designed around workplace practice, drawing on feedback from our systems thinking apprenticeship. It is highly vocational, taught by experienced practitioners, and focused on applying learning directly to real work.
Learners build the skills to lead analytical projects in public and population health, including working with internal and external stakeholders, developing data-sharing agreements, and applying the legislation, procedures and health service guidance needed to handle confidential patient information appropriately.
The Course
Each delivery of the course is tailored to the complex challenges apprentices face in their roles, with projects and assignments linked closely to their day-to-day work.
The accelerated training phase is 22 months including the assessment period. The course is delivered via tutor-led, interactive seminars via Teams with leading practitioners, monthly 1-2-1 time with an experienced skills coach and professionally guided small group round tables. We also provide behavioural and pastoral support from a Learner Progress Adviser, online learning and self-study materials and an individualised Workplace Development Plan focused on both learner and business needs. Quarterly progress reviews are held with line managers.
Modules cover
- Personality, stakeholders and working relationships
- Leadership and nanagement
- Project and change management
- The health and social care system
- Study design and methodology
- Information, evidence and recommendations
- Data analysis and evidence informing decision making
- Interpretation, transfer and dissemination of information
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.
Funding via the apprenticeship levy is no longer available for apprentices aged over 21. For older learners, starts remain available on commercial funding arrangements.
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Eligibility
The programme is suitable for junior level staff with no more than 3 years experience who want to grow their career from a junior analyst position to a more senior role. It is not suitable for those who hold a public health degree or are educated higher than a Masters Degree level. Learners will need to have studied a statistical module at university or have a willingness to learn and ability to apply stats in a project.
Funding via the apprenticeship levy is no longer available for apprentices aged over 21. For older learners, starts remain available on commercial funding arrangements.
“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
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