Data Scientist

ZeroAge; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and friendly data team at a leading acute trust in Nottingham, where you will play a crucial role in transforming data into actionable insights. As a Band 7 Data Scientist, you'll work with clinicians and managers to enhance patient outcomes through innovative data solutions. This hybrid role offers the opportunity to apply your skills in R and Python, contributing to impactful projects across various healthcare domains. Embrace a culture of diversity and personal development while making a difference in the lives of thousands of patients. Your expertise can help shape the future of healthcare delivery!

Benefits

Personal development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience with machine learning and statistics applied to real-world problems.
• Familiarity with R and Python for data analysis and modeling.

Responsibilities

• Build analysis and information products for decision-makers.
• Develop models to simulate hospital interactions and improve efficiency.
• Create tools to enhance data processing speed and repeatability.

Skills

Machine Learning

Statistics

Data Wrangling

Dashboarding

R Programming

Python Programming

Git

Education

Degree in Data Science or related field

Job description

We sit in the centre of one of the largest data-rich acute hospitals in England, and we need your help to uncover and tell the stories hidden in our data!

We Need You To

1. Get close to, and stay close to the clinicians who are seeing patients, and the managers who are helping make improvements in our hospitals.
2. Help us plan, prioritise, forecast, and simulate our way to better outcomes and experiences for patients.
3. Identify and diagnose problems, decide how your data skills can be best applied, and then show us what your techniques can do.
4. Actively help steer our improvement using the insight that you build from working in detail with our data.
5. Help us share more of our code in public (we work mainly in R and python).

NUH is a large acute trust (you can see our ED at work in recent series of "24 Hours in A&E"), and we are a data team well-connected to our senior decision-makers. There will never be less data available than there is today, and the rate that large hospitals generate data points is increasing. Our team is busy finding ways to uncover signal in the noise AND make it directly operationally useful to the people who can make and change decisions.

We're a small and friendly team, and we're working on interesting and impactful work. Can you help us?

This is a permanent hybrid role, split between days at home and days in the office in Nottingham.

Our work covers a wide range of subjects, including inpatients, outpatients, theatres, diagnostics, elective work, emergency work, paediatrics, planning, and support for capital projects.

Your Responsibilities

1. Build analysis and information products to help decision-makers understand their day-to-day reality, and help them plan and prioritise the most impactful next steps.
2. Build models of our hospital's interactions in code, so that we can simulate and iterate our way through options quickly and cost-effectively.
3. Contribute to the modelling we do to support our annual planning process, which aims to achieve a balance between patient activity, budget, and available workforce.
4. Build tools and infrastructure to help us make our data work faster, more efficient, and more repeatable.

As a Band 7 Data Scientist You Will Probably

1. Prefer to work in either R or Python (we use both as needed), and be familiar with collaborating with other team members using git.
2. Have practical experience of applying machine learning, statistics, data wrangling, and dashboarding to real-world problems.
3. Be familiar with communicating technical results to non-technical audiences, including making data-supported recommendations.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education, and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We believe strongly in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in delivering world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. We offer endless personal development opportunities, and at NUH, we aim to turn your job into a career!

We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we strive for better representation at NUH.

Additional Information

See the attached file for the detailed job description.

If you have used LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to prepare your application, please mention this in your application. Applications with undeclared use of LLMs will be rejected.

Please note this is a hybrid role, and interviews will be conducted in person at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham.