Health Data Scientist

About the Role
Applications are invited for the post of Health Data Scientist to work within the Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG) in the Centre for Primary Care, Wolfson Institute of Population Health. The postholder will support research and service quality improvement projects within north east London, using NHS patient electronic health records held on large database resources accessed and maintained by CEG and within GP clinical data systems. This work will take in all areas of data analysis, from extracting, linking and preparing data, conducting analyses, and producing outputs for journal articles, online visualisation, or service reports.

About You
The postholder will need to be experienced in analysing and processing data, preferably with health-related records, using R, STATA, SQL or Python. They should have a broad understanding of data visualisation and reporting with preferably some experience in producing data outputs for wider audiences. Knowledge of GP clinical systems, standard healthcare coding or the NHS would be desirable.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG) conducts research and data analysis to enable innovation, development and the delivery of quality improvement programmes to reduce inequalities and improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a variety of conditions for populations in east London.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Whitechapel Campus in London. It is a full-time (35 hours per week), fixed-term appointment for 1 year, with an expected start date of 01/05/2023. The starting salary will be Grade 4, in the range of £37,348 - £43,592 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Kelvin Smith at kelvin.smith@qmul.ac.uk.

To apply for the role, please click the ‘Apply’ button.

The closing date for applications is 13 April 2023.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter.

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