Senior Data Scientist

North Central London Integrated Care Board

North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) strives to leverage our rich data assets and investment in London's data infrastructure (OneLondon) to become a leader in data-driven improvement. We are recruiting a Senior Data Scientist to develop our in-house data science capability to support our stakeholders to make high quality decisions that improve local health and services.As an experienced technical expert and researcher, the senior data scientist will drive forward the use of advanced predictive and prescriptive methods (such as causal inference, stochastic simulations, Bayesian hierarchical modelling, machine learning ) to structure and solve complex business problems. Creative visualisation of findings and dynamic deployment of tools will support operational service delivery and enhance strategic and clinical decision-making across the NCL health and care system.As a proactive member of data science communities, they will collaborate with local academic and nationwide NHS partners to drive efficient innovation across the system and identify areas where building specialist internal capability and infrastructure would benefit NCL. The post-holder will be community minded, enabling the development and implementation of our data science strategy by supporting the wider analytical team with statistical modelling and building reproducible analytical pipelines.

Main duties of the job

Working with stakeholders to understand the underlying business need and applying your knowledge and influencing skills to co-design appropriate project plans (including problem articulation, project scoping and design, modelling, communication, deployment and evaluation)Delivering end-to-end data science projects that produce actionable insights or tools, considering user needs, data quality and management, user experience and engagement, deployment and maintenance, and making best use of statistical modelling and/or machine learning methodsCollaborating with academic, regional and NHS partners

Influencing the development of the ICB's technology stackCommunicating relevant, compelling stories using the most appropriatemedium providing complex, actionable recommendations at a tactical and strategic level.

Identifying development opportunities for yourself and adopting innovative practices learned from the wider analytics communitySupporting staff within the team to develop technical skills to ensure that they are able to deliver the new responsibilities of the ICBUpholding high ethical standards across the data science lifecycle

About us

NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington.As an ICB, we're focused on:o improving outcomes in population health and healthcareo tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and accesso enhancing productivity and value for moneyo helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.It is an exciting time to be joining NCL ICB - we have commenced an organisational change programme to redesign the structure of the organisation and the way that we work to better meet the needs of our population, our people, our system, and our partners. As part of the organisational change programme, we want to re-launch and re-energise the organisation, embed new ways of working and building the capabilities we need to create a thriving organisational culture.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for details of main responsibilities.

Person Specification Education/Qualifications

• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working in an analytical role.
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
• Demonstrable knowledge in relevant analytical fields, their associated methods, and their potential for application within healthcare, including advanced statistics, epidemiology, data science, econometrics, and operational research
• Knowledge of the role of analysis in improving decision quality and be capable of supporting advanced decision-making methods (e.g. multicriteria decision analysis)
• Good understanding of advanced analytics, including one or more of machine learning, simulation and causal inference. Knowledge covers modelling, best practices in training, deployment, and monitoring
• Knowledge of the role of analysis in improving decision quality and be capable of supporting advanced decision-making methods (e.g. multicriteria decision analysis)
• Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in London and appreciate the implications of this
• An active member of relevant professional body and/or wider analytical networks.

Experience

• Expert in open-source scripting languages, such as Python/ R Demonstrated experience in one or more of: oSimulation methods, such as Discrete Event Simulation, System Dynamics, and MCMC. oRegression modelling, generalised linear models such as logistic or Poisson, multilevel models, Analysis of Variance. oBayesian approaches to modelling oCausal inference oMachine Learning / predictive models: regression/classification trees, random forests, boosting, neural networks
• Experimental design and applying the appropriate testing framework to analytics.
• Experience improving decision quality, working with system leaders to ask the right questions.
• Experience using the tools of reproducible analytic pipelines, such as git, GitHub, documentation, automation, and code review
• Experience supporting team members to develop professionally
• Considers the ethical implications of design choices
• Experience of model deployment and associated tools
• Experience of model monitoring methods and associated tools
• Experience automating manual reporting processes
• Experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2, CRISP-DM and agile

Skills & Abilities

• Expert knowledge of predictive, prescriptive and/or evaluative analytical techniques
• Expert in delivering actionable insights using static and/or interactive data visualisation where appropriate
• Able to scope several solutions to a business problem and triage to propose the most appropriate solution within the operational constraints and resolution needed to make a decision
• Evidence of delivering results through others using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Capable of managing own workload and making informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Proactively identifies areas for professional development and able to independently learn technical skills
• Able to make decisions autonomously when required and appropriate.

Communication

• Ability to explain the principles, results, implications, strengths and limitations of analytical methods to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Persuade team members and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new tech opportunities.
• Able to communicate findings and clear actionable insights to non-analyst colleagues

Values and Behaviours

• Commitment to the values and principles of system working agreed across NCL
• Ability to actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion within all areas of responsibility and challenge processes and approaches that may promote inequalities
• Demonstrates a strong desire to improve outcomes and make a difference by focusing on goals.
• Commitment to professional development

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.

Employer name

North Central London Integrated Care Board

£61,927 to £68,676 a yearper annum Including HCA