Employer NICE - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Employer type NHS
Site 3rd Floor Town Manchester
Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 13/04/2025 23:59
Interview date 24/04/2025
Senior Analyst
NHS AfC: Band 8a
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance and advice on promoting high quality health, public health and social care.
As an equal opportunities employer we are committed to creating an inclusive environment and welcome everyone from all backgrounds to apply so we can continue to create a workforce which is representative of the communities we serve.
If you are suitably qualified and have an interest in remote, hybrid, full time or part time working we encourage you to get in touch as we are happy to discuss potential flexible working opportunities.
We have modern offices in Manchester city centre and Stratford, London. Please take into consideration that you may be required to commute to one of our offices for business purposes if necessary.
Job overview
The Senior Analyst has a key role in delivering NICE's ambition to be part of a system that constantly learns from data and implementation. The post holder will support a programme of work that will ensure that NICE expands its uses of data to inform guidance to the health and care sectors. The post holder will work closely with the Scientific Adviser, Technical Adviser (Data Scientist) and Associate Director for Data Access and Analytics, and other Data and Analytics Team members.
Main duties of the job
* Leading analytical projects and producing analytical outputs for internal and external stakeholders, particularly relating to the development of NICE guidance products (e.g. guidelines and technology appraisals)
* Developing reproducible analytics, pipelines and tools to support the needs of the organisation
* Working closely with other team members, including quality-assuring outputs
* Advising others on the use of healthcare databases for analytic purposes
* Maintaining close links with relevant programmes, and contribute to activities as needed
* Working with colleagues across the organisation to ensure that the outputs from the team are of a high standard and are consistent with other NICE products and ensure alignment of work with NICE's broader strategic ambitions and process developments
* Engaging with external partners to deliver outputs including from the health and social care sector, patient groups, academia, and life sciences
Working for our organisation
The Data and Analytics team provides leadership in data and real-world evidence to ensure NICE uses a broad range of evidence in its guidance and products. The team works with system partners to ensure that NICE has access to a comprehensive range of health and care data that can inform our guidance and enable us to be part of a system that continually learns from data and implementation.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
We offer a range of benefits including:
* NHS pension scheme which is one of the most generous in the UK.
* Holiday entitlement which starts from 27 days plus Bank Holidays
* We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance including work from home, compressed hours and flexi start/finish times.
* Access to a Blue Light Card which includes a wide range of discounts from major retailers, restaurants and more.
* Access to Staff Networks including Disability Advocacy and Wellbeing Network, Women In NICE, Race Equality Network, NICE and Proud, Change Agent Network. Equality and Diversity is highly valued in the organisation.
* Personal development tailored to your needs.
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* Masters in a relevant discipline (data science, health economics, medical statistics, epidemiology, health informatics or another quantitative discipline) or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience
Experience
* Experience working with different sources of healthcare data, including electronic health records, administrative databases, patient registries, patient-generated health data, and patient experience data
Experience
* Experience planning and undertaking complex data projects, taking responsibility for delivery, including study design or data analysis
Skills/Knowledge
* Ability to use common statistical programming languages such as Python or R, and query languages such as SQL
Skills/Knowledge
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to analyse, critique and synthesise highly complex information and present it clearly and precisely, both verbally and in written formats
Important - Due to NICE’s use of anonymised recruitment practices we ask all candidates not to include any personal details within their application. Please ensure you provide sufficient detail in the supporting information section to allow our team to make an informed judgement about your suitability for this role at this stage. CV’s will not be considered.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further submissions when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates must ensure that all information provided in their application is factually accurate. Any examples provided must be taken from personal experience. The Civil Service abides by honesty and integrity as part of its core values, if evidence of plagiarism is found, applications may be withdrawn.
By submitting an application, you agree that it may be rejected or subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
Please contact Careers@nice.org.uk if you wish to discuss any additional needs or reasonable adjustments which may support you with your application and/or at interview.
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