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Digital Policy Analyst

Job details
Posting date: 06 March 2025
Salary: £41,026 per year
Additional salary information: £41,026 (National) - £45,144 (Inner London)
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 16 March 2025
Location: Leeds
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 392194/1

Summary

In the Department of Health and Social Care, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you would like to work in, we would love to hear from you.

We are seeking a talented Analyst to work at the heart of digital policy in health and social care. This role is based in the Transformation Directorate’s Digital Policy Unit, a joint unit between the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England. We aim to support the health and social care sector to exploit technology and data to improve health and wellbeing outcomes and make the working lives of staff easier. We report to both the Secretary of State and the Chief Executive of NHS England, having high-profile impact across both organisations.

This is an exciting opportunity in the Digital Analytics team to use your experience and skills to lead analytical and evidence building projects across digital policies and programmes within the health and social care sector. Digital Analytics is a small team, providing analytical advice and support throughout policy development, including identifying evidence gaps, policy appraisal, and evaluation. You will work closely with other analysts, as well as across a range of programme and policy teams. We will support your development to ensure you have the skills and confidence to deliver.

The Department of Health and Social Care is looking to recruit an SEO analyst to join the Digital Policy Unit. You will work in a unique joint unit between the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England. This is an exciting opportunity for you to work with policy makers to progress Ministerial ambitions to drive a more productive health and care system with better health outcomes.

Working closely with digital, AI, tech, cyber, and data policy experts, you will apply your analytical skills to inform and support policy and strategy in a rapidly changing environment. The Digital Analytics team works across a range of exciting projects including:

  • Examining the intended effects, societal costs, benefits, and risks of regulatory and non-regulatory policy options for example, common information standards in health and social care.
  • Engaging across government to develop a framework for assessing and quantifying the economic risk of cyber-attacks within the health sector to support resource prioritisation.
  • Planning and delivering impact, value for money and process evaluations of digital policies and programmes such as the NHS AI Lab and public engagement on health and care data.
  • Analysis to develop the evidence base and assess the value for money of falls prevention and detection technologies, digital health technologies and Secure Data Environments.
  • You will join at a critical time for the Digital Policy Unit as we work with teams on the development of Spending Review bids, ensuring our proposals are impactful, convincing and evidence based.

When required, we expect the successful candidate to take a flexible approach to which projects they are working on, so that the department can meet its business priorities. On occasion, this may include working outside the immediate team.

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