Job summary
As a Senior Data Scientist at the London Ambulance Service, you will be responsible for the production and reporting of advanced analytics to support executive, strategic and operational decision making in the delivery of urgent and emergency care. Drawing on your expertise with statistical modelling, you will identify patterns in our data, developing forecasts and predictive tools which capture essential features of service dynamics. You will be part of a drive to achieve a culture of excellence in our use of data, ensuring modern standards for code development and analysis are adhered to in the organisation. Through all this, you will help to deliver a more effective and efficient service, and therefore better outcomes for our patients.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join Forecasting and Planning, taking ownership of a newly established Integrated Urgent Care (IUEC) function. Alongside the Head of Data Science, you will be part of an enthusiastic and technically minded team, using your data science skillset to tackle challenges facing critical public services. You will own and drive the advanced analytics, assurance and planning projects for IUEC, and confidence in presenting complex findings to non-technical audiences is essential. The ideal candidate will have familiarity with:
- Demand and capacity planning in a healthcare environment
- Analytical approaches to performance management
- Line management experience in a data science team
- Coding (R/Python, SQL) and experience with version control
- Experience with classical statistics and machine learning
About us
Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year. Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:
- Our care- delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
- Our organisation- being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
- Our London- using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.
To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.
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Job responsibilities
For fuller information of main responsibilities, an electronic copy of the job description has been saved and filed in the Documents section
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate degree in management science, operational research, analytics, data science or similar discipline
- Extensive practical experience and expertise in conducting thorough data analysis, mining and modelling in a work environment
- Evidence of continued professional development in the data science (or a related) field through short courses, certificates, and engagement in the data science community
- GCSE mathematics or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of producing, analysing and interpreting data information in a work environment, with significant evidence of the underlying theory of around data exploration, statistical inference, predictive analytics and making recommendations
- Practical experience with machine learning techniques, visualisation best practice, simulation, optimisation and advanced multivariate statistics
- Extensive experience of working with complex, conflicting, sensitive and contentious information
- Practiced in using SQL Server or MS Access in a work environment (including creating complex queries using structured query language to extract data and create reports)
Knowledge
Essential
- Familiar with major challenges in healthcare, with an appreciation for how data can contribute to their resolution
- Ability to extract sensitive information from databases/datasets to help understand a process or solve a problem and make informed recommendations based on detailed data insight
- Experience with experimental and quasi-experimental methodologies such as Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Process Control
- Ability to scope, develop and tailor decision support tools to meet users specification and requirements
- Evidence of building and tuning numerical simulations of real world systems
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate degree in management science, operational research, analytics, data science or similar discipline
- Extensive practical experience and expertise in conducting thorough data analysis, mining and modelling in a work environment
- Evidence of continued professional development in the data science (or a related) field through short courses, certificates, and engagement in the data science community
- GCSE mathematics or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of producing, analysing and interpreting data information in a work environment, with significant evidence of the underlying theory of around data exploration, statistical inference, predictive analytics and making recommendations
- Practical experience with machine learning techniques, visualisation best practice, simulation, optimisation and advanced multivariate statistics
- Extensive experience of working with complex, conflicting, sensitive and contentious information
- Practiced in using SQL Server or MS Access in a work environment (including creating complex queries using structured query language to extract data and create reports)
Knowledge
Essential
- Familiar with major challenges in healthcare, with an appreciation for how data can contribute to their resolution
- Ability to extract sensitive information from databases/datasets to help understand a process or solve a problem and make informed recommendations based on detailed data insight
- Experience with experimental and quasi-experimental methodologies such as Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Process Control
- Ability to scope, develop and tailor decision support tools to meet users specification and requirements
- Evidence of building and tuning numerical simulations of real world systems
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
