Public Health Analyst

SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL; Reigate; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 41,000

Job description

This role has a starting salary of £40,296 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week.

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract/secondment opportunity.

Are you passionate about the role of data in public health and healthcare decision-making? Would you be motivated by the thought of leading analysis for important health needs assessments and pushing forward data science approaches? Can you get behind our mission to reduce health inequalities for the residents of Surrey ensuring that no one is left behind? If so, this role opportunity could be your next move.

We are hiring a new Public Health Analyst to join our fantastic Public Health Intelligence and Insight Team. The team is based in Woodhatch, Reigate. However, we care about how you work rather than where you work and offer flexible working and a hybrid approach, with team members working from home or at a Council office more convenient to them for most of the week.

Rewards and Benefits:

• 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
• 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources

About the Team

Our Public Health Intelligence and Insight Team is here to generate evidence that helps communities of identity and geography which are often overlooked and currently most at risk of experiencing poor health outcomes, using Surrey's Health and Well-being Strategy to inform our aims.

We have a truly open and supportive team culture built over several years. In joining us, you will be supported to continue to build and share your specialist expertise. You will be provided with access to a paid-for analysis training platform, protected learning time, access to in-house training programmes and opportunities to shadow across the wider public health team.

About the Role

Our Public Health Intelligence and Insight Team provides crucial data and insights that commissioners need to drive targeted improvements in population health and to tackle health inequalities effectively.

You will play a key part in analysing complex data sets, identifying key public health trends or outliers within these data sets. Typically structured within needs assessments, your analyses will explore a variety of geographical areas, population groups, and health and wellbeing issues, offering insights that guide our strategic decisions. You will provide vital support to Surrey's Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNA) assessing the current and future health and care needs for the Surrey system.

You will support the wider intelligence team with the completion of ad-hoc requests. This will include in many cases working with the requester to refine research questions to enable insightful products, as well as completing the analysis. This requires a specialist understanding of public health data; where to access datasets, how to interpret complex public health datasets, and how to explain these results to the wider team to enable commissioning of services.

Whilst our focus is on public health, we value diversity in professional backgrounds. You don't need to have a background in public health to apply; your transferable skills from other areas within the health and care system or from healthcare analytics could offer invaluable perspectives to our team.

Shortlisting Criteria and How to Apply

As part of your application you will be asked to upload your CV and answer the following questions:

• What has motivated you to apply for this position?
• Please tell us about an example of a project where you have analysed a complex data set and what statistical or epidemiological methods you used to interpret the results. Please detail the project, your role, and the results from your contributions.
• Please describe your experience in the use of software such as R, Python or SQL. For the language you are most familiar with, please provide an example of a data transformation or statistical analysis you have carried out, describing your approach.
• Please describe your experience in the use of software such as Tableau or Power BI. For the software you are most familiar with, please provide an example of a visualisation you have produced and how your visualisation added clarity and value over the original data.
• Tell us about your experience of stakeholder management, either external or internal. Please describe a recent project in which stakeholder management was important and the role that you took within it.

The job advert closes at 23:59 on 05/05/2025 with interviews planned for the w/c 19th May 2025.

We look forward to receiving your application; please click on the apply online button below to submit.

Our Commitment

Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applicants where:

• The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
• The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form

Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.