Head of Health Economics

Are you a strategic leader, with a strong technical grounding in healthcare economics, looking for an exciting and dynamic opportunity to shape the direction of travel of a £6 billion integrated care system?

If so, we would love the opportunity to meet you and discuss the role in the performance and planning team at NHS North West London.

It is a great time to be joining NW London as we look to develop and embed a genuine population health strategy approach in the design, planning and implementation of services. Critical to this be developing a culture where world class analysis informs evidence-based decision making and evaluation across the system.

Your technical expertise in economic modelling, analysis and evaluation will place you at the heart of the team looking to drive forward this approach alongside the Associate Director of Performance and Planning and the Chief Finance Officer.

Main duties of the job

You will have exposure to a range of key strategic initiatives and be expected to conduct early value assessments, formal real world evaluations assessing pathway and service improvements, population health analysis to inform strategy and assessments of the productivity and economic value impact of implementation.

NHS North West London is also embarking on an extensive organisational development programme to ensure the organisation has an inclusive, respectful, innovative and empowering culture that allows people to flourish and develop. Health and wellbeing and ensuring an excellent work-life balance are at the core of this.

If this sounds interesting, we would welcome the chance to review your application.

NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (NHS NWL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in eight boroughs across North West London: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.

The local population is large and diverse, with a wide range of health and care needs that are evolving all the time. Working with our partners including Councils, NHS provider Trusts, GPs and voluntary and community organisations we plan and allocate NHS resource to deliver a wide range of services including urgent and emergency care, mental health, primary care, elective hospital services and community care.

All ICB roles work collectively to ensure our residents and patients have access to the right services when they need them as well as focusing on prevention and health promotion, supporting residents to take greater care of their own health and live longer, healthier lives.