Senior Data Scientist

Job Description

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce and pride ourselves as being an employer of choice.To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace, visit PHE WebsiteOn 18 August 2020, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced plans to establish the National Institute for Health Protection and consult on the best future options for strengthening health improvement and other public health functions in the wider system. Public Health England and many of its employees will be in scope for transition to new organisations in Spring 2021. Any new or current employees working for Public Health England during this time, will receive appropriate communications and consultation prior to any formal transfer taking place. Employees who compulsorily transfer to successor bodies will remain on their existing contractual terms and conditions and this applies both to current employees and those recruited during the transition. The recruitment, growth & development of our workforce is vital for the continuing success of PHE and thefuture National Institute for Health Protection.This is an exciting opportunity to join the Public Health Data Science team within the Health Intelligence Service, which is part of the Health Improvement Directorate within PHE. PHE is working to try to understand how data and data science can better support its prevention, improving health and wellbeing and healthcare variation and inequality programmes, and improve its decision making.As a Senior Data Scientist your role will be to work with colleagues to provide an infrastructure and service to improve and modernise PHE’s public health intelligence offer; to learn and apply new data science techniques to the exploitation of the data PHE collects, obtains and generates; to build data science capacity and capability. You will work with colleagues in the Health Intelligence service across the country to develop and deliver national health intelligence outputs on a range of public health priority topics. Your role will include working on statistical modelling of health conditions and risk factors, developing automated methods and tools for production and publication of indicators on a variety of platforms, providing training materials and support for data science methods and other general analytical tasks.We are looking for a self-motivated individual with experience of working with multiple sets of data and information systems, ideally in a health or related sector. The successful candidate will have the ability to analyse and resolve highly complex information queries and problems and to communicate findings in a readily understandable way to stakeholders.Option 3 – ExternalOpen to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).Applicants should use the criteria in the person specification (available online) as sub-headings in their application to make it clear how they meet each of the selection criteria. As well as the essential criteria, candidates for this post should pay particular attention to the desirable criteria under the heading "Data science skills" and the first one under "Health intelligence skills".Public Health England promotes diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunities employerWe may hold a reserve list for up to twelve months. During this time, if a similar role is identified and you have been placed on the reserve list you may be considered for the post. Within the reserve list period, your application form and selection information may be shared across the department and its agencies.For further details / informal visits contact:Name: Georgina AndersonJob title: Principal Public Health AnalystEmail address: .ukTelephone number: +Additional contact information:For further information or an informal discussion about the post, please contact: Georgina Anderson (.uk ) or Paul Fryers (.uk )