Senior Data Scientist

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

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.