Senior Health Economist

Job Summary

Become a key member of an expert team delivering impactful work shaping the future of health and care. This Senior Health Economist role is a fantastic opportunity to work in the dynamic Health Economics Unit (HEU), part of NHS Midlands and Lancashire (MLCSU). Bring your expertise and enthusiasm to a wide range of projects, helping organisations from within the NHS and beyond to make better decisions and improve public health.

We are looking for someone that is passionate, kind, and enthusiastic about using health economics to make informed decisions on resource allocation, and evaluate innovation to help transform how healthcare is delivered, and improve the lives of our population. The HEU creates fantastic, useful insights by working in collaboration and partnership, internally with other CSU units and externally, and we need people that will thrive in this environment.

In return, we will offer you flexible working; access to training and development; access to the big benefits of working for the NHS (including NHS pension). As part of the health economics team, you will work alongside a wider team of experts including data scientists, data engineers, and client service managers. You will have the exciting opportunity to use real-world data to inform your economic analyses.

HCA will apply where there is a service requirement to routinely work from the London base and/or to be available to work within the local operational area (a minimum of 40% of contracted hours).

Main Duties of the Job

The postholder responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the delivery of health economics services to both public and private sectors
• Gathering/generating evidence to inform the adoption of innovations
• Designing and developing transparent and user-friendly health economic models
• Developing logic models and economic evaluation frameworks including mixed method approaches to evaluate medicines and technologies such as medical devices and digital solutions
• Providing advanced health economics and analytical services to strategic healthcare projects and programmes
• Selecting and applying appropriate analytical techniques and methodologies
• Performing systematic and targeted literature reviews
• Analysing, synthesising and presenting data extracted from health and social care databases (real world data) to inform models (e.g. budget impact, CEA)
• Sharing your expertise through both internal and external teaching and presenting
• Actively contributing to The Health Economics Unit's, and your, public profile and presence through posters, abstracts, academic publications and presentations at academic conferences, events and in social media
• Building relationships with stakeholders and industry partners
• Developing proposals to meet client project briefs including resource requirements, cost estimates and timescales and developing new business opportunities and services
• Managing client relationships and a portfolio of projects

About Us

The HEU Team

The HEU has been created to deliver impactful insights that power the future development of health and care delivery. We are a team of economists, data scientists, data engineers, client service managers, and communications. Our team are employees of the NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU). We specialise in using real-world data for health economic analyses and population health management, generating evidence to assess the adoption of innovation and to improve the health of the population.

We are a dynamic team open to collaboration, considering various approaches to problem solving and continuous team development.

As an employee of the NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU), the post holder will be required to uphold and abide by all CSU policies on, for example: information governance, data protection and confidentiality; equality and diversity; safeguarding children and adults; and health and safety (this is not an exhaustive list).

MLCSU is committed to our process of redeployment at risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Date Posted: 06 November 2024

Pay Scheme: Agenda for Change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 a year + Inner HCA of 20% of salary subj to min £5,414 & max £8,172 pa

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full-time

Reference Number: 877-CSU-6773351

Job Locations: Agile working, London, E14 5EA

Job Responsibilities

The Role

Reporting to the Chief of health economics and outcomes research you will form part of an expert team who can:

• Understand the context within which our customers operate and assist them to identify and structure the problems they need to address. You will have a good knowledge of the National Health Service, its organisational structures and operational processes and an appetite to learn more.
• Select the most appropriate evaluation, health economic modelling and analytic techniques including where possible, the use of real-world data for analyses. You will bring excellent skills grounded in health economics.
• Interpret and explain the results of economic analyses to senior managers and clinicians, conveying both the key findings and the critical uncertainties that remain. Having conducted your analysis, you will be keen to share it, highlighting the significance of your results to those that can make use of them.
• Take advantage of the wealth of data that The Health Economics Unit has secured to address the big questions that face the health service of today and tomorrow.

The position is client-facing and the postholder will be required to lead on evaluations and health economic modelling projects.

The postholder responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the delivery of health economics services to both public and private sectors
• Gathering/generating evidence to inform the adoption of innovations
• Designing and developing transparent and user-friendly health economic models
• Developing logic models and economic evaluation frameworks including mixed method approaches to evaluate medicines and technologies such as medical devices and digital solutions
• Providing advanced health economics and analytical services to strategic healthcare projects and programmes
• Selecting and applying appropriate analytical techniques and methodologies
• Performing systematic and targeted literature reviews
• Analysing, synthesising and presenting data extracted from health and social care databases (real world data) to inform models (e.g. budget impact, CEA)
• Sharing knowledge and encouraging growth in our organisation and others, through teaching
• Actively contributing to The Health Economics Unit's, and your, public profile and presence through posters, abstracts, academic publications and presentations at academic conferences, events and in social media
• Building relationships with stakeholders and industry partners
• Developing proposals to meet client project briefs including resource requirements, cost estimates and timescales and developing new business opportunities and services
• Managing client relationships and a portfolio of projects

Person Specification

Business Development

• Experience of writing proposals and scoping projects

Essential

• Experience of developing health economic models - CEA, CBA, CUA, CCA including other decision modelling techniques for evaluation of innovation and programmes.
• Experience of performing complex analyses and using specialist analytic software (R, Excel for health economic models) to analyse RWD for evidence generation - health economics/outcomes research / population health analytics.
• Experience of performing evidence reviews - e.g. systematic, targeted to inform evaluations / model development.
• Experience of managing projects and clients.

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.

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.

Employer Details

Employer Name: Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit

Address: Agile working, London, E14 5EA

Employer's Website: https://www.midlandsandlancashirecsu.nhs.uk/