Principal PH Intelligence Analyst

The Methodist Church in Britain; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

London Borough of Newham is seeking a senior leader to direct the Public Health Intelligence function, guiding a team of analysts to deliver actionable population health insights. You will oversee analysis of health needs, equity, and service performance, and lead Joint Strategic Needs Assessments.

The role requires a numerate postgraduate qualification and a proven ability to lead analysts and influence policy decisions.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in health or public health or a numerate discipline
• Ongoing commitment to learning and skills development in data science
• Experience leading analysts and influencing decisions

Responsibilities

• Lead the Public Health Intelligence service and produce actionable insight to inform decisions
• Manage a team of Public Health Analysts
• Lead analysis to assess need, understand service performance and identify public health trends and equity issues
• Provide leadership to the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment process, assessing current and future health and care needs
• Lead the design, methods, production and quality assurance of the intelligence function, embedding continuous quality improvement
• Apply novel data science techniques, including risk stratification, modelling, regression, segmentation and forecasting
• Provide expert statistical and epidemiological advice to the organisation and strategic partners, including the Integrated Care System
• Lead projects that provide health intelligence on needs, inequalities and commissioning decisions, and disseminate findings
• Raise standards in population health intelligence, improve access to tools and training, and build analytical capability across the workforce
• Analyse complex data from a range of sources for operational and strategic decision-making
• Maximise the use of linked health and care data resources through analytics
• Undertake research supporting public health intelligence objectives

Skills

Public health analytics

Data science methods

Leadership

Influence decisions

Team management

Communication

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Postgraduate qualification in health/public health/epidemiology/statistics/health data science or similar

Job description

This permanent post leads the Public Health Intelligence function within the Public Health team at the London Borough of Newham, managing a team of Public Health Analysts. The post holder directs analysis of health and care need, service performance and inequalities, and leads the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment. Its distinct features are the use of extensive linked health and care data and advanced methods such as risk stratification, modelling and forecasting, with insight shared across the council and the Integrated Care System. Candidates need a numerate postgraduate qualification and a record of leading analysts and influencing decisions.

What the job involves

• Lead the Public Health Intelligence service, producing actionable insight to inform decisions that improve population health and reduce inequity
• Manage a team of Public Health Analysts
• Lead analysis to assess need, understand service performance and identify public health trends and equity issues
• Provide leadership to the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment process, assessing current and future health and care needs
• Lead the design, methods, production and quality assurance of the intelligence function, embedding continuous quality improvement
• Apply novel data science techniques, including risk stratification, modelling, regression, segmentation and forecasting
• Provide expert statistical and epidemiological advice to the organisation and strategic partners, including the Integrated Care System
• Lead projects that provide health intelligence on needs, inequalities and commissioning decisions, and disseminate findings
• Raise standards in population health intelligence, improve access to tools and training, and build analytical capability across the workforce
• Analyse complex data from a range of sources for operational and strategic decision-making
• Maximise the use of linked health and care data resources through analytics
• Undertake research supporting public health intelligence objectives

Qualifications

• Suitable postgraduate qualification in health, public health, epidemiology, statistics, social or behavioural sciences, health data science or a similar numerate discipline
• Ongoing commitment to learning and skills development in data science

Experience

• Strong understanding of public health principles, health inequalities and the wider determinants of health
• Excellent knowledge of health and care datasets, their strengths and weaknesses, and suitable analytical methods
• Excellent knowledge of health data science, population health analytics and producing insight for decisions
• Leading teams with a substantial health data analysis component, raising standards and managing a small team of analysts
• Routine insight that influenced decisions to reduce inequity, improve quality or direct commissioning
• Collaborative working across a local health and care system and representing an organisation in regional or national forums

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent project management, time management and prioritisation across several complex projects at once
• Excellent oral and written communication, presenting complex information to varied audiences including non-experts
• Ability to influence others through narratives, visualisations and storytelling
• Skilled at training, mentoring and developing team members and stakeholders
• Excellent health data science and public health analysis skills