Public Health Analyst - Fixed Term Contract

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Help us drive evidence-based decision making to support residents live healthier, longer lives, whilst developing your data science skills.

You will work within the Epidemiology team within Public Health Evidence & Intelligence, Hertfordshire County Council. We provide support to health and care services within Hertfordshire on topics such as epidemiology, modelling, quantitative research, and the appropriate use of data. With the support of Senior Epidemiologists, you will support decision making across the health and care system in Hertfordshire, with projects ranging from providing statistics and insights about health and wellbeing, making recommendations for how services can be transformed to better meet residents needs, and using data science methods to develop ways to better analyse and visualise data.

You will have the opportunity to work both independently and as part of a team, collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders within Hertfordshire County Council and from partners.

We have invested in providing the right tools to enable you to reach your potential, including a data science environment supporting R and Python, using GitLab for source control. This allows us to automate the routine and instead spend our time focusing on deriving insights from data based on advanced analytical methods to support decision makers.

We support flexible working and typically work remotely, though some travel may be required at times.

We use the R statistical programming language for much of our work, so some familiarity with R or another programming language will be a benefit, but this is not essential as we can provide training. The technical nature of role means you will need an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in a numerate discipline such as public health, statistics, data science, social sciences, economics, geography or similar, or have at least a years experience working in this space. A pre-interview assessment will form part of the selection process, which will ideally be done in R.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team of researchers and analysts dedicated to using evidence and intelligence to improve local evidence-based decision making, reduce health inequalities and ensure that residents are able to live long and healthy lives.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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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.

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire County Council

Address

County Hall

Pegs Lane

Hertford

SG13 8DE

Employer's website

https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)