Senior Epidemiologist

Job responsibilities

• Suffolk County Council Endeavour House, Ipswich IP1 2BX - Hybrid
• £45,380 per annum (pro rata for part time)
• 37 hours per week - Flexible working options available
• Permanent

This is an excellent opportunity to join Suffolk County Council's Public Health and Communities directorate as a Senior Epidemiologist, where you will lead a small team of skilled analysts in delivering comprehensive epidemiological and analytical support across the directorate.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Senior Epidemiologist, you will be at the forefront of evolving our ongoing analytics as part of data-led epidemiological work which includes population health management, the response to infectious diseases, and wider public health analysis including healthcare and social care related topics.

You will:

• Use your technical skills and expertise (which are likely to include advanced knowledge of R, MS Power BI and SQL or similar) to evolve our existing BI products and develop new ones
• Provide data-driven modelling scenarios, and be able to build reports to highlight key areas of health inequalities, including in access, processes, and outcomes
• Line manage a small team of Public Health and Communities Analysts to deliver epidemiological and analytical support across the directorate, ensuring appropriate analytical methods are applied and quality assuring outputs
• Play a leading role in the analytical development of our work, which includes population health management, the response to infectious diseases, and wider public health and social care analysis, to inform service development and delivery.

You will need

• A Masters level (or higher) qualification in epidemiology, health data science, public health or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Significant epidemiology or analytical skills and experience, ideally in a Local Authority or healthcare setting, or with UK Health Security Agency.
• Knowledge of epidemiological/statistical measures, analysis and methods, including the ability to calculate and interpret confidence intervals, P values and other tests of statistical significance as well as an understanding of comparative analytical techniques.
• Knowledge of population health management principles, products and programmes, and how they can be utilised to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes.
• The ability to create, manage and manipulate large data sets, including pulling together data from multiple sources to create reporting which supports new services across the health and care system.
• The ability to communicate accurate conclusions drawn from, and implications of results of, statistical/performance/public health analyses to a wide range of internal and external staff, guiding them on a recommended course of action.

You can view a full list of requirements in the Job and Person Profile (docx).If you believe you can succeed in this role, apply. Even if you don't meet all requirements, still apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

The team

The Knowledge, Intelligence and Evidence team is based within the wider Public Health and Communities team.The team are responsible for providing high quality, evidence-based insight that drives decision making.As a Senior Epidemiologist within the team, you will support a wide variety of programmes focused on improving health and wellbeing, and reducing inequalities across our community.

Empowering Everyone

We are big believers in potential, possibility and the power of different ideas. We are always searching for ways to encourage, respect and enable everyone to be the best they can be. We want to represent the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals, especially those from groups that are currently underrepresented in the organisation, as shown in ourWorkforce Equality Report.

For more information

Please contactRebecca Allenfor a casual conversation. You can reach them by calling01473 260179 or emailingrebecca.allen@suffolk.gov.uk

Closing date:11.30pm, 10 June 2024.

Interview date: 21 June 2024.

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks or police vetting will be required for relevant posts. #LI-Hybrid

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant degree.
• Masters level (or higher) qualification in epidemiology, health data science, public health or related discipline, or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

• Significant epidemiology or analytical skills and experience, ideally in a Local Authority or healthcare setting, or with UK Health Security Agency, with the ability to extract, analyse, link, interpret and model multiple datasets.
• Knowledge of epidemiological/statistical measures, analysis and methods, including the ability to calculate and interpret confidence intervals, P values and other tests of statistical significance as well as an understanding of comparative analytical techniques.
• Knowledge of population health management principles, products and programmes, and how they can be used to reduce inequalities and improve outcomes.
• An understanding of the principles, practical analysis, application and evaluation of health economics data.
• Ability to analyse benchmarking data to identify variations in activity and quality of health and care services.
• Experience using programming languages and data visualisation tools such as Microsoft Power BI / SQL / R or similar or willingness to acquire such skills rapidly.
• Ability to automate complex reporting to ensure resources are used in the most efficient way possible and to speed up the provision of intelligence to stakeholders.
• Detailed knowledge of health and sociodemographic data sources commonly used in public health.
• 15.The ability to create, manage and manipulate large data sets, including pulling together data from multiple sources, anonymisation and pseudonymisation techniques, and the presence of key statistical phenomena in interpreting data, such as regression to the mean.
• Curiosity about data. The ability to critically analyse and see the bigger picture including key messages and the political impacts of data and intelligence.
• Able to provide expert advice and develop the analytics to support health needs assessments within the Suffolk JSNA.
• Ability to facilitate coordinated data sharing between organisations whilst adhering to information governance standards and laws.
• Project management ability to plan, prepare and manage projects, using appropriate project management tools.
• Detailed knowledge and skills in investigating and resolving complex statistical/ analytical/ epidemiological queries and problems.
• Ability to communicate accurate conclusions drawn from, and implications of results from, statistical/performance/public health analyses to a wide range of internal and external staff, guiding them on a recommended course of action.
• Ability to remain calm in stressful situations, with experience of delivering multiple tasks with tight deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate statistical, analytical, and epidemiological matters to non-statistical/analytical/epidemiological professionals.
• Ability to form effective and durable working relationships with a wide range of people and agencies.
• Ability to lead by example, inspiring confidence and trust, and create an atmosphere of can do.
• Ability to demonstrate duties to other staff as required and coach, mentor, line manage less experienced staff.
• Ability to write content in different formats and to a high standard (written reports, infographics, slides, videos), and to publish that content to the web.
• The ability to convey statistical, epidemiological and public health concepts clearly where there are a range of possible solutions.
• Ability to use MS Word, Excel and other key applications to an advanced level.
• Understanding of research methods, research methodology and effective literature searching.
• Ability to chair, facilitate, manage and participate in meetings as appropriate.
• An understanding of data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning or willingness to learn advanced data science skills.

Values and personal qualities

Essential

• Demonstrates a passion for making a positive difference for Suffolk.
• Shares our WE ASPIRE Values and strives to lead by example in relation to these.
• A strong commitment to fairness and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
• Strives to continuously improve in everything they do, taking the initiative to learn and develop.
• Brings creativity into their work through innovation and openness to change.
• Collaborates well with others and offers assistance and support to colleagues.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

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