Senior Data Scientist

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Site Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Town Nottinghamshire Salary £48,007 - £55,706 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

The post holder will operate as a specialist data scientist within EM-ACE, leading defined analytics and
modelling work packages from discovery through to deployment, evaluation and reuse.
The role will combine strong technical delivery with user-centred problem solving, stakeholder communication
and coaching of others. The post holder will design and maintain robust analytical code, models and
documentation within FDP-aligned environments, ensuring that outputs are reproducible, clinically and
operationally meaningful, and capable of adaptation across EMAP organisations.

Main duties of the job

• Lead delivery of defined EM-ACE data science use cases, ensuring that outputs move beyond analysis into usable products, models or decision support tools.
• Develop, validate and document predictive, evaluative and advanced analytical methods using appropriate statistical, machine learning or operational research approaches.
• Produce reusable RAPs, code libraries, model documentation and implementation guidance that support scale across FDP tenants.
• Coach analysts and junior da

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

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Masters level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant numerical, analytical, scientific, informatics or digital discipline. Evidence of continuing professional development.
• PhD or additional postgraduate training in data science, statistics, operational research, computer science, health informatics or related discipline. Professional registration or active membership of AphA, AnalystX, NHS-R, nhs.pycom or similar.

Data science experience

• Experience applying data science techniques to real world datasets, such as machine learning, time series forecasting, statistical modelling, simulation, causal inference, NLP, risk adjustment or optimisation.
• Experience applying data science to healthcare datasets, especially acute provider activity, patient flow, outpatients, ED, waiting lists, inequalities, population health or operational recovery.

Coding and technical delivery

• Strong practical competence in Python, R, SQL or similar, including debugging, data manipulation, analysis, visualisation and model development. Experience using Git collaboratively.
• Experience with FDP/Foundry, cloud platforms, APIs, data engineering tools, feature pipelines, automated testing, packaging or deployment of analytical products.

RAP, software engineering and documentation

• Experience creating reusable, version-controlled, well documented analytical code, with clear methodology and quality assurance.
• Experience publishing code, creating shared libraries, developing training material, or leading RAP adoption in an analytical team.

Model validation and evaluation

• Ability to design validation approaches, interpret performance, quantify uncertainty and explain model limitations for decision-making.
• Experience with model monitoring, model cards, algorithmic impact assessment, clinical safety, economic evaluation or formal benefits realisation.

Communication and stakeholder influence

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to present complex analysis to technical and non technical stakeholders, including senior audiences.
• Experience communicating contentious analytical findings, negotiating scope or influencing operational change using evidence.

Leadership and coaching

• Able to mentor, coach or supervise junior analysts/data scientists and contribute to a collaborative technical culture.
• Experience line managing staff, leading a community of practice, coordinating code review or setting team standards.

Planning and organisation

• Able to manage concurrent work packages, prioritise, adapt to changing requirements and deliver usable outputs to agreed timescales.
• Experience working in agile/product delivery, multidisciplinary teams, hackathons or rapid improvement cycles.

Ethics, IG and values

• Strong understanding of data protection, confidentiality, Caldicott principles and ethical data science in health and care.
• Evidence of work addressing fairness, bias, explainability, accessibility, inequalities or public/patient impact.

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.