Statistical analyst in Clinical Epidemiology
| Posting date: | 05 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £32,188 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Leeds: £32,188 London: £36,244 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 September 2024 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 368473/2 |
Summary
This role sits within the Clinical Epidemiology team within the Chief Analyst's Directorate. The team has an important role across the specialist area of clinical epidemiology. The post holder will bring professional statistical analysis skills to this role, sourcing and assessing the wider evidence base and contributing across Clinical Epidemiology work areas, using a wide range of analytical and data analysis skills. The post holder will lead analysis and monitoring of unwarranted variation and inequalities across population subgroups; helping to understand the needs of people with multiple risk factors and multi-morbidity.
The team brings together analytical thinking on 5 main areas of work, including: Healthcare Variation and Value; Mental Health; Dental Health; End of Life Care; and Neurology and Dementia. The post will be based in the Mental Health Intelligence Network Team, but also contributing across the wider team and wider analytical thinking within the Chief Analyst's Directorate as required.
As a statistician working in public health intelligence and clinical epidemiology, you will have the opportunity to bring together two closely related areas of professional expertise, developing and applying professional knowledge of public health intelligence alongside good professional statistician skills.
You will be part of a dynamic team responsible for delivering an effective Public Health Intelligence service. This will include considering and assessing wider sources of evidence for each topic area and working through the analysis needed to provide the best possible insights from the available data. This role will be based in the mental health intelligence team, but will have the opportunity to work on intelligence framing and analysis across the clinical epidemiology team.
You will play an important role in the functions of the wider Directorate team, enabling decision makers and interested users to access, understand and use appropriate public health datasets and insights; providing analysis that improves our understanding of health and the factors which influence health. You will work closely with partners elsewhere in the Department and in other organisations, finding better ways to deliver excellent products and managing your work to deliver products that meet the needs of those using them.