Lead Health Economist

The Methodist Church in Britain; England; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Methodist Church in Britain is seeking a senior health economics leader to head the health economics function within its Strategic Value Unit, aligned with the Population Health Unit. The role combines strategic direction, complex modelling, and senior technical assurance to inform commissioning, resource allocation and service design.

You will oversee a team of health economists, drive economic evaluation across programmes, and translate findings into evidence-based recommendations for

Qualifications

• Master's-level qualification in health economics or closely related quantitative discipline with substantial health economics content.
• Continued professional development in health economics, economic evaluation, decision modelling or related methods.

Responsabilités

• Provide professional leadership for health economics across the Strategic Value Unit and Population Health Unit, setting its direction.
• Lead complex economic evaluations and decision models supporting commissioning, transformation and resource allocation.
• Lead complex health economic programmes supporting strategic planning, commissioning, transformation and evaluation.
• Apply cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-benefit, budget impact, return on investment, multi-criteria and scenario modelling where they strengthen decisions.
• Assess assumptions, uncertainty and sensitivity, keeping limitations transparent and conclusions proportionate.
• Assess marginal benefits, opportunity costs, affordability and trade-offs between alternative uses of ICB resources.
• Lead appraisal and synthesis of economic and related evidence, including literature, national guidance and routine health and care data.
• Provide senior technical assurance of high-impact analyses and models through peer review and independent challenge.
• Lead the health economic components of multidisciplinary evaluations of pathways, programmes and service changes.
• Translate findings into clear recommendations and communicate costs, outcomes and uncertainty to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Produce or assure economic content for business cases, option appraisals, committee papers and evaluation reports.
• Line manage and professionally support the health economics team, including objectives, appraisal, performance, development and wellbeing.

Connaissances

R

Python

Health economics

Economic evaluation

Decision modelling

Formation

Master's in health economics

Description du poste

Senior technical and professional leadership role heading health economics within the Strategic Value Unit, integrated with the Population Health Unit at NHS Central East ICB. The postholder leads complex economic evaluations and decision models that inform commissioning, resource allocation and service design. The post also carries line management of a health economics team and sits within a multidisciplinary decision intelligence function. Fit depends on a Master's-level qualification in health economics or a closely related quantitative discipline and fluency in R or Python.

What the job involves

• Provide professional leadership for health economics across the integrated Strategic Value Unit and Population Health Unit, setting its direction
• Lead complex economic evaluations and decision models supporting commissioning, transformation and resource allocation
• Lead complex health economic programmes supporting strategic planning, commissioning, transformation and evaluation
• Apply cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-benefit, budget impact, return on investment, multi-criteria and scenario modelling where they strengthen decisions
• Assess assumptions, uncertainty and sensitivity, keeping limitations transparent and conclusions proportionate
• Assess marginal benefits, opportunity costs, affordability and trade-offs between alternative uses of ICB resources
• Lead appraisal and synthesis of economic and related evidence, including literature, national guidance and routine health and care data
• Provide senior technical assurance of high-impact analyses and models through peer review and independent challenge
• Lead the health economic components of multidisciplinary evaluations of pathways, programmes and service changes
• Translate findings into clear recommendations and communicate costs, outcomes and uncertainty to technical and non-technical audiences
• Produce or assure economic content for business cases, option appraisals, committee papers and evaluation reports
• Line manage and professionally support the health economics team, including objectives, appraisal, performance, development and wellbeing

Qualifications

• Master's-level qualification in health economics, economics or a closely related quantitative discipline with substantial health economics content
• Continuing professional development in health economics, economic evaluation, decision modelling or related methods

Experience

• Applying health economics to prioritisation, resource allocation, option appraisal, pathway redesign, investment or disinvestment decisions
• Appraising economic evidence, developing model parameters and working with routine health, care, activity, outcome or cost data
• Leading, managing, supervising or developing health economists or analytical staff and setting technical standards
• Significant senior technical or professional leadership and leading complex multidisciplinary health economics or analytical programmes

Skills & knowledge

• Fluency in economic evaluation and modelling using R or Python, including cost-effectiveness, budget impact and uncertainty analysis
• Structuring ambiguous decision problems, identifying comparators or counterfactuals and selecting proportionate economic methods
• Developing, interrogating and quality assuring complex economic models and drawing defensible conclusions from uncertain evidence
• Synthesising complex economic, clinical, financial and population evidence into clear recommendations

Nice to have

• Professional recognition or evidence of wider contribution to the health economics profession
• Real-world economic evaluation of services, programmes, pathways or system interventions
• Specialist methods such as preference elicitation, multi-criteria decision analysis or distributional economic evaluation
• NICE or health technology assessment methods and adapting national economic evidence to local decision-making

What’s offered

• Flexible working options, to be discussed
• Carer-friendly working environment
• Wellbeing support