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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the NHS Wales Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate as a Senior Data Scientist. You will be joining an innovative and award-winning team that is passionate about delivering value within NHS Wales, offering insights to the wider system by triangulating patient outcomes, financial data and healthcare activity, supporting financial sustainability and improvement across the system.
As the profile and reputation of the Directorate has grown since its inception, so has the demand for its expertise and insight.
It is an exciting time for individuals with drive and ambition to join the team with a growing work programme, agenda, and opportunity to make a difference within NHS Wales.
This post sits within the Financial Planning & Delivery directorate of NHS Wales Performance and Improvement.
In order to support the provision of insightful information, we have developed an Analytics Centre of Excellence, leading the development of high-quality products that provide insight and intelligence to a wide range of stakeholders, including finance professionals, clinicians, operational teams and boards. We are seeking to expand this team through recruitment of dedicated informatics professionals to work alongside our business analysts.
Our work programme is focused on the following six themes:-
Intelligence and Insight;
Support and Challenge;
Value Based Healthcare;
Best Practice Financial Management;
Planning and Monitoring;
Leadership & Development;
The Senior Data Scientist will play a pivotal role in:
Navigating and linking big data sets
Producing high quality data visualisations to demonstrate variation and highlight key themes and messages
Maximising innovative opportunities around predictive analytics and forecasting
Developing innovative solutions to complex problems
Quality assuring and validating data; and
Delivering high profile projects, contributing to the delivery of our work streams.
NHS Performance & Improvement works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.
Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.
We do this by providing strong leadership and strategic direction – enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.
To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/
For guidance on the application process, please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jessica Hammond Job title: Business Support Manager Email address: jessica.hammond@wales.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07973848309 #J-18808-Ljbffr