Data Scientist

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Site Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Town Nottinghamshire Salary £38,776 - £46,753 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

The post holder will contribute to the development of data science, advanced analytics and reproducible
analytical products for EM-ACE. Working under the supervision of senior data scientists and alongside
analysts, data engineers and operational stakeholders, the role will support problem formulation, data
preparation, exploratory analysis, statistical modelling, visualisation, evaluation and documentation.
The post holder will help create FDP-aligned, CDM-aware, reproducible outputs that can be tested locally,
improved iteratively and reused across participating EMAP organisations.

Main duties of the job

Purpose of the role within EM-ACE
• Support delivery of high-impact analytics use cases through practical coding, data analysis,
visualisation and model development.
• Contribute to reproducible analytical pipelines, documentation and shared code libraries that can be
reused across FDP tenants.
• Help convert operational problems into well-structured analytical questions, working with users to
understand data, context and intended action.
• Build data science capability across the wider analytical community by sharing learning, contributing
to code reviews and supporting training materials.

Working for our organisation

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for further details of the role including responsibilities and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification in a numerate, analytical, scientific, informatics or digital discipline, or equivalent experience in an analytical/data role. Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Postgraduate qualification or training in data science, statistics, operational research, computer science, health informatics or related discipline. Membership or active involvement in AphA, AnalystX, NHS-R, nhs.pycom or similar community.

Analytical and data science experience

• Experience in an analytical, information, data or digital role, or graduate-level experience with strong applied project evidence. Experience applying statistical or data science methods to real datasets.
• Experience with healthcare, NHS operational datasets, patient pathways, health inequalities, demand/capacity analysis or evaluation.

Coding and tools

• Ability to use at least one coding language such as Python, R or SQL for data manipulation, analysis and visualisation. Basic understanding of Git or version control.
• Experience with notebooks, GitHub/GitLab, unit testing, package/project structure, APIs, cloud analytics or FDP/Foundry tooling.

RAP and quality assurance

• Ability to produce clear, documented and reproducible analysis, with attention to data quality, definitions and checking.
• Experience contributing to reproducible analytical pipelines, shared code, automated reporting, or open source analytical materials.

Communication

• Able to write clear analysis, present findings and explain technical concepts in plain language to non technical users.
• Experience producing visualisations, briefing papers, dashboards or training materials for operational or clinical users.

Planning and organisation

• Able to manage several strands of work, meet deadlines, adapt to changing priorities and escalte blockers.
• Experience working in agile delivery, sprint cycles, hackathons, product teams or multidisciplinary improvement work.

Ethics, IG and values

• Understanding of confidentiality, data protection, Caldicott principles and ethical use of data. Commitment to inclusion, reducing inequalities and public value.
• Experience considering bias, fairness, explainability, accessibility or clinical safety in analytical work.

Personal attributes

• Curious, practical, collaborative and willing to learn. Able to take feedback, improve work iteratively and contribute to a positive analytical culture.
• Evidence of sharing learning through communities, peer support, blogs, presentations, coding clubs or internal training.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

VISA's and Immigration system

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered at this point in time.

When DSFS Ltd are able to offer sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK), applicants will be required to provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (‘DSFS’) is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e‑mail therefore please check your e‑mail account, spam folders and NHS Jobs (where applicable) account regularly.

References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore, to speed up the recruitment process please provide an up to date email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the DSFS Human Resources team on 01246 513737 / crhft.dsfshumanresources@nhs.net and we will be happy to provide assistance.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.