Senior Analyst

NHS; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

The Senior Analyst has a key role in delivering NICE's ambition to be part of a system that constantly learns from data and implementation. The post holder will support a programme of work that will ensure that NICE expands its uses of data to inform guidance to the health and care sectors. The post holder will work closely with the Scientific Adviser, Technical Adviser (Data Scientist) and Associate Director for Data Access and Analytics, and other Data and Analytics Team members.

Main duties of the job

• Leading analytical projects and producing analytical outputs for internal and external stakeholders, particularly relating to the development of NICE guidance products (e.g. guidelines and technology appraisals)
• Developing reproducible analytics, pipelines and tools to support the needs of the organisation
• Working closely with other team members, including quality-assuring outputs
• Advising others on the use of healthcare databases for analytic purposes
• Maintaining close links with relevant programmes, and contribute to activities as needed
• Working with colleagues across the organisation to ensure that the outputs from the team are of a high standard and are consistent with other NICE products and ensure alignment of work with NICE's broader strategic ambitions and process developments
• Engaging with external partners to deliver outputs including from the health and social care sector, patient groups, academia, and life sciences

About us

The Data and Analytics team provides leadership in data and real-world evidence to ensure NICE uses a broad range of evidence in its guidance and products. The team works with system partners to ensure that NICE has access to a comprehensive range of health and care data that can inform our guidance and enable us to be part of a system that continually learns from data and implementation.

We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.

We offer a range of benefits including:

• NHS pension scheme which is one of the most generous in the UK.
• Holiday entitlement which starts from 27 days plus Bank Holidays
• We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work-life balance including work from home, compressed hours and flexi start/finish times.
• Access to a Blue Light Card which includes a wide range of discounts from major retailers, restaurants and more.
• Access to Staff Networks including Disability Advocacy and Wellbeing Network, Women In NICE, Race Equality Network, NICE and Proud, Change Agent Network. Equality and Diversity is highly valued in the organisation.
• Personal development tailored to your needs.

Job responsibilities

To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.

Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Masters in a relevant discipline (data science, health economics, medical statistics, epidemiology, health informatics or another quantitative discipline) or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience

Experience

• Experience working with different sources of healthcare data, including electronic health records, administrative databases, patient registries, patient-generated health data, and patient experience data

Experience

• Experience planning and undertaking complex data projects, taking responsibility for delivery, including study design or data analysis

Skills/Knowledge

• Ability to use common statistical programming languages such as Python or R, and query languages such as SQL

Skills/Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to analyse, critique and synthesise highly complex information and present it clearly and precisely, both verbally and in written formats

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.

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours