Data Scientist
Job Description
Job summary
Are you passionate about data and analytics?
- Are you an accomplished professional with a passion for driving transformative change in healthcare?
- Do you have the skills and experience to build key relationships with stakeholders and deliver coproduced insights and advanced analytics?
- Do you have the ability to improve the levels of data literacy within the organisation and help to develop and deliver training programmes on the use of business intelligence products?
We are currently seeking a dynamic Data Scientist to join our team. Your analytical expertise will be crucial in identifying solutions to improve healthcare processes and drive quality within our team. You will provide expert informatics advice and guidance for analytics projects, ensuring that systems and services are developed and implemented in line with national data definitions and standards.You will:
- Use mathematical, statistical and operational research techniques to effectively produce strategic workforce planning demand and supply forecasts.
- Build key relationships with all relevant stakeholders across the organisation in order to deliver coproduced insights and advanced analytics.
- Produce modelled and statistical results and provide specialist advice / guidance on the analysis, interpretation, explanation, and recommendations.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to independently manage and plan a programme of complex activities that enable HEIW to implement and analyse data. This will involve improving and developing the collection, processing, analysis, distribution and visualisation of the data.
Use mathematical, statistical and operational research techniques to effectively investigate the correlation between key elements in the data, identify issues, good practice, trends and exceptions. To use knowledge to critically appraise and challenge the results of outputs, ensuring only meaningful information is delivered to stakeholders.
Enhance current modelling capabilities by producing strategic workforce planning demand and supply forecasts. Continuously working to develop the methodology used for predicting such forecast profiles and review its accuracy and reliability over time, as well as suitability for future demand.
Support the team on various projects to enhance the analytics and modelling tools that have been designed to enable senior management to make data driven decisions.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.
HEIW's is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:
- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,
- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,
- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.
HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.
What you can expect:
- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,
- compassionate leadership,
- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,
- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.
Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as "One HEIW Team". Do you want to join that team?
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters in management science, operational research, analytics, data science or similar discipline or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- In depth specialist knowledge of statistics/epidemiology/information analysis and the use of information or equivalent plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through training and relevant experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable
- Post-graduate research in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or another quantitative field.
Experience
Essential
- Experience and expertise in conducting thorough data analysis, mining and modelling in a work environment.
- Extensive experience of producing, analysing and interpreting data information in a work environment, including manipulating data sets, statistical inference, determining relationships and making recommendations.
- Extensive experience of working with complex, conflicting and contentious information.
- Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SLQ, etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets.
- Proven track record of successfully introducing service improvements.
- Experience of using a structured project management approach to deliver projects within timescales.
- Experience of Presenting Information both verbally and written.
Desirable
- Experience in System Dynamics Thinking.
- Experience of Working in the NHS and or knowledge of Pay modelling
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Knowledge of machine learning and advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.).
- Ability to explain complex statistical ideas to non-statisticians
- Ability to work in a pressurised environment planning own work and able to prioritise tasks to ensure deadlines are met.
- Ability to use different influencing skills appropriate to the outcomes of findings, especially when findings do not support initial assumptions or expectations.
- Ability to make own decisions on how issues should be resolved and how results are best achieved, implementing those decisions as appropriate.
- Demonstrable staff development skills.
- Ability to identify and embrace change in the drive towards continuous improvement.
Desirable
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
- Expertise in VENSIM
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Health Education and Improvement Wales
Address
Ty Dysgu
Cefn CoedQQ
Cardiff
CF15 7QQ
