Senior Data Analyst

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in London is seeking a Senior Data Analyst responsible for leading data science projects, creating models in R or Python, and ensuring data quality and governance. Candidates should possess strong SQL skills, experience in data analysis, and the ability to manage conflicting information and deadlines. The Trust emphasizes the importance of teamwork and initiative, offering a competitive salary and benefits in the healthcare sector.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable understanding of data warehousing frameworks.
• Ability to construct technical specifications based on client briefs.
• Team-oriented with self-direction capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead data science models development using R or Python.
• Support data quality, governance, and assurance for projects.
• Analyze health outcomes and create complex SQL queries.

Skills

SQL

R

Python

Data Analysis

Machine Learning

Job description

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:
• Supporting client-facing responsibilities, leading on data extraction and analysis for several concurrent projects.
• Lead on and build data science models in R or Python to meet users' needs using statistical, machine learning and AI approaches to solve problems
• Proactively evaluate how new tools fit into the wider technical landscape, and assess whether they would help solve problems or improve technical implementation and present back to wider analytic team.
• Enhance and explore new data science and AI methodologies and identify model to problem fit
• Supporting the writing of proposals to meet client project briefs, including resource requirements, cost estimates and timescales and the development of new business opportunities and services.
• Collecting, interpreting, and writing a wide range of technical specifications to support clinical and operational research and contracts for services.
• Leading on the data quality, information governance, data processing and information assurance for the portfolio of projects within ICHP
• Using visualization applications to present information and share findings in a creative and appealing manner

Key tasks
• Extracting, analyzing, and presenting health outcomes/activity in relation to client objectives.
• Writing complex SQL queries, analyzing data through SQL Management Studio, and having demonstrable understanding of the data warehousing frameworks.
• Writing complex R or Python scripts, utilizing AzureML, in the data and statistical analysis required.
• Handing conflicting information and making decisions under uncertainty in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice and verification as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
• Undertaking ad-hoc analysis of highly complex and varied datasets upon request from clients, often with little prior warning, under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Prioritizing and coordinating work for projects and ensuring tight and conflicting deadlines are met.
• Managing the technical architecture and data loads from multiple sources of the WSIC de-identified server.
• Analyzing and reviewing the Data Quality of provider datasets and ensuring technical data load processes are in place and mapped to defined specifications of the database.
• Ensuring change management, release management, and backlog management for the delivery of tasks within de-identified section of the whole systems integrated care project environment.
• Ensuring ICHP/WSIC assets are maintained, and making use of existing systems to solve business problems.
• Developing and implementing new information systems and information flows to collect and store data, analyze, and automate information reporting.
• Keeping up-to-date knowledge of the technologies/software/tools available for data curation and managing the data integrity within a data warehouse.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

Essential criteria

• Writing complex SQL queries, analyzing data through SQL Management Studio, and having demonstrable understanding of the data warehousing frameworks.
• Writing complex R or Python scripts, utilizing AzureML, in the data and statistical analysis required.
• Overview knowledge and understanding of the NHS, including the funding and organizational realities
• Adept at constructing technical specifications reflecting the client brief, and to lead work (giving expert advice on data related issues) autonomously but requesting management support as appropriate.
• Ability to work as part of a team and establish and maintain good working relationships, and to be self-directed working on your own initiative

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of epidemiology / biostatistics, particularly analytical issues relating to studies of treatment effectiveness, disease progression, adherence, healthcare utilisation, etc.

Important

• The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Documents to download

• Senior Data Analyst Job Description (PDF, 360.6KB)
• Senior Data Analyst JD and Person Spec (PDF, 368.6KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 371.1KB)
• Guidance for applicants (PDF, 85.4KB)
• Policy Statement (PDF, 144.5KB)
• Staff Benefits and Wellbeing (PDF, 196.5KB)
• Recruitment Pack (PDF, 2.8MB)