Senior Data Scientist

Integrated Care System; Bridgend; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A health organization in Wales is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate. The role involves linking complex data sets, producing insightful visualizations, and utilizing machine learning techniques. Candidates should have a Master's degree or equivalent experience, along with strong analytical and project management skills. Knowledge of Microsoft Power BI and statistical analysis is essential. This role supports the financial sustainability of NHS Wales.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience to Master degree level or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Navigating and linking big data sets.
• Producing high quality data visualisations.
• Maximising opportunities around predictive analytics.
• Delivering high profile projects.

Skills

Statistical analysis

Data visualization

Data linking

Project management

Machine learning

Business intelligence tools

Microsoft Power BI

Power Automate

Education

Master's degree in a relevant field

Job description

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY NHS WALES.

THIS POST IS A SECONDMENT FOR 12 MONTHS DUE TO FUNDING.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN APPLYING FOR THE SECONDMENT POSITION, YOU MUST OBTAIN PERMISSION FROM YOUR CURRENT LINE MANAGER PRIOR TO APPLYING FOR THIS POST.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the NHS Wales Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate as a Senior Data Scientist. You will be joining an innovative and award-winning team that is passionate about delivering value within NHS Wales, offering insights to the wider system by triangulating patient outcomes, financial data and healthcare activity, supporting financial sustainability and improvement across the system.

As the profile and reputation of the Directorate has grown since its inception, so has the demand for its expertise and insight.

It is an exciting time for individuals with drive and ambition to join the team with a growing work programme, agenda, and opportunity to make a difference within NHS Wales.

Main duties of the job

This post sits within the Financial Planning & Delivery directorate of NHS Wales Performance and Improvement.

In order to support the provision of insightful information, we have developed an Analytics Centre of Excellence, leading the development of high-quality products that provide insight and intelligence to a wide range of stakeholders, including finance professionals, clinicians, operational teams and boards. We are seeking to expand this team through recruitment of dedicated informatics professionals to work alongside our business analysts.

Our work programme is focused on the following six themes:-

Intelligence and Insight;Support and Challenge;Value Based Healthcare;Best Practice Financial Management;Planning and Monitoring;Leadership & Development;

The Senior Data Scientist will play a pivotal role in:

Navigating and linking big data setsProducing high quality data visualisations to demonstrate variation and highlight key themes and messagesMaximising innovative opportunities around predictive analytics and forecastingDeveloping innovative solutions to complex problemsQuality assuring and validating data; andDelivering high profile projects, contributing to the delivery of our work streams.

About us

NHS Performance & Improvement works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.

Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.

We do this by providing strong leadership and strategic direction - enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.

To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/

For guidance on the application process, please visithttps://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant experience to Master degree level or equivalent professional experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Experience

• Experience of linking complex data sets to derive meaningful analysis.
• Experience of validating and quality assuring outputs.
• Experience of statistical analysis of highly complex information.
• Experience of planning workload independently and project management skills
• Ability to manage complex and varying workloads whilst delivering to often tight timescales.
• Experience and understanding of data quality issues (including resolution of such issues).
• Significant experience of databases/data modelling tools within an information environment.
• Experience of providing and presenting highly complex information to clinicians and senior managers.
• Experience of providing specialist advice on highly complex information issues
• Experience of using business intelligence tools to provide meaningful insight to a range of audiences.
• Experience of using Microsoft Power BI and Power Automate.
• Experience in machine learning and statistical modelling, including supervised and unsupervised learning, and time-series forecasting.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.