Senior Data Scientist

About us

Our mission is to maximise and advocate for the holistic health of all children, young people and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement. The UCL GOS ICH, together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, forms the largest concentration of children’s health research outside North America. The 2024-29 GOS ICH strategy focuses on its five scientific programmes. GOS ICH’s activities include active engagement with children and families, to ensure that our work is relevant and appropriate to their needs. GOS ICH generates the funding for our research by setting out our proposals in high quality applications to public, charitable and industrial funding bodies and disseminates the results of our research by publication in the medical and scientific literature, to clinicians, policy makers and the wider public. The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teachin g and life learning programmes which address the needs of students and professional groups who are interested in and undertaking work relevant to child health. GOS ICH holds an Athena SWAN Charter Gold Award. Please only attach relevant documents to your application (qualifications, cover letters, supporting statements) and avoid attaching large files e.g. research papers, thesis, publications etc.

About the role

This post is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Health Data Scientist to contribute to the management of ECHILD, a data resource linking administrative data from health, education and children’s social care for all children in England. The postholder will facilitate policy-relevant research on health and education across the early lifecourse by supporting data users with data extractions, data documentation, and epidemiological and statistical methodology. The Data Scientist will act as a key point of contact, responding to queries and carrying out feasibility checks, signposting to resources, and providing technical and governance support. The salary offered in this role is at either grade 7 (£45,103 - £52,586 per annum ) or grade 8 (£54,931 - £59,571 per annum) and is funded until 31/03/2029 in the first instance.

About you

You will have an MSc or PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. statistics, epidemiology, public health, health data science). You will have advanced quantitative and statistical software skills using standard software (e.g. Stata, R) and experience of analysing administrative datasets from health or education. Experience of working in child health would be an advantage. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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