Senior Health Data Scientist

Queen Mary University of London; London; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Queen Mary University of London is seeking a Senior Health Data Scientist to join their team. The successful candidate will work on research projects focusing on healthcare needs, utilizing data analysis skills and knowledge of health data ontologies. This role offers a competitive salary and various benefits, including flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Generous pension scheme

30 days leave per annum

Season ticket loan scheme

Professional development opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Expertise in data analysis, processing, migration, and transformation.
• Experience using SQL or R/STATA for data management.
• Knowledge of health data ontologies including SNOMED and ICD-10.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research using data to understand healthcare needs.
• Identify areas for system and service change.
• Support implementation of changes to local care pathways.

Skills

Data analysis

Data processing

SQL

R

STATA

Information governance

Data handling

Job description

About the Role

We are recruiting a Senior Health Data Scientist. In this role, you will be employed by Queen Mary University and hold an honorary contract with Barts Health NHS Trust. The successful candidates will work with our professorial team and a senior data analyst to conduct research using data to understand the healthcare needs of the local population, identifying key areas of system and service change, working with staff to support implementation of changes to local care pathways and evaluating and researching the outcomes of projects focused on three main themes:

• Transforming prevention and mitigations for people living with frailty, with long term conditions and multimorbidity.
• Leading edge rehabilitation and the recovery of older people following life changing trauma and illness.
• Cognition and older people’s mental health benefitting from extant strengths in dementia.

About You

You will have expertise and experience in data analysis, processing, migration and transformation. You will have experience of using SQL or R/STATA to manage and analyse data. You will have knowledge health data ontologies including SNOMED and ICD-10 and know how to navigate statutory requirements for information governance and data handling in the UK. You will be a skilled team worker, and able to present complex concepts in relation to data analyses in ways that care professionals and lay members of the public can understand. You will have a proven ability to manage a complex workload and deliver on multiple projects in parallel.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA) is a pioneering and exciting collaborative venture between Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London funded by Barts Charity with £6.6 million. ACHA will transform health and care services for older people in our local communities and further afield ensuring they remain as fit and active as possible. The Centre is embedded in Whipps Cross Hospital, which is central to innovative system reconfiguration in North East London, and also closely linked with teams at Queen Mary’s Whitechapel Campus.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

£53,863 to £60,060 per annum