Senior Data Scientist
Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit, Birmingham
Senior Data Scientist
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Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit, Birmingham
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 10 Dec | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: c299bfd1d7344ad9a756fd353a7b35ff
Full Job Description
We're helping to build the future of open source data science in health and social care at the Strategy Unit, and we need you to help us!
- We build data science products with R and Python
- We deliver training in data science regionally and nationally
- We believe in the power of sharing code and we share our code
- We have access to all the tools that you need to do open source data science and to deploy products in the cloud to our customers nationally
- We have a lot of fun, we love to learn new stuff together, and we want you to be a part of it, You will be working alongside other data scientists to carry out commissioned work for the data science team, including helping to design and build software and tools for analysis, writing and maintaining reproducible analytic pipelines, and providing internal and external training on data science methods. You will be expected to publish code wherever possible and to contribute to and learn from communities of data scientists in health and social care, particularly NHS-R or NHS Pycom., As a Senior Data Scientist, you will have experience in designing, managing and maintaining open source code for data science and you will work in a team delivering software, code based tools, documentation and training to our clients regionally and nationally. We are committed to open-source reproducible analytical pipelines (RAP- https://nhsdigital.github.io/rap-community-of-practice/) to ensure the methods are shared widely across the NHS, including sharing code and transferring skills to national and local teams, particularly through NHS-R/ NHS Pycom. You will be a valued member of the Strategy Unit team, supporting the development of our services, systems, strategy, and reputation for excellence. You will be provided with the opportunities you require to develop your skills and build your career, both through formal training and hands-on experience.
We're looking for data scientists with skills in Python, agile and collaborative working, team players who can learn from and teach others as part of an innovative data science team. You may have skills in machine learning, statistics, data wrangling, text mining- the most important quality is ability and readiness to learn new things, and to share your knowledge with the team and with the wider health and social care system.
The Strategy Unit is a specialist NHS team, based in Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit. We work with NHS and social care organisations, universities, charities, and government organisations to deliver clear thinking and applied analysis that improves decision-making, implementation, and results. Our basic proposition is simple: better evidence, better decisions, better outcomes. We host the Midlands Decision Support Network https://www.midlandsdecisionsupport.nhs.uk/ and the NHS-R Community (https://nhsrcommunity.com/) For more information about our work including recent and current projects, please visit : https://www.strategyunitwm.nhs.uk. We are hosted by the NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU). Their mission is to "be a great place to work, to be great people to work with, striving to be better tomorrow than we are today."
This is a permanent role, band 7 (£46,148 - £52,809), can be done hybrid/ remote, with a base in Birmingham.
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