At a Glance
- Tasks: Develop and enhance workforce planning models for strategic healthcare planning.
- Company: Join a leading NHS client on impactful data projects.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, flexible remote work, and valuable experience.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities to grow your career.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in healthcare through advanced analytics and modelling.
- Qualifications: Experience as a Data Scientist with strong Python and SQL skills.
The predicted salary is between 36900 - 45100 £ per year.
VIQU have partnered with an NHS client who are seeking a Data Scientist to join the team on a contract basis. This role will play a key part in developing, enhancing, and delivering complex workforce demand and supply models that support strategic healthcare planning.
The successful Data Scientist will work across a range of high-profile modelling projects, helping to transform workforce forecasting through advanced analytics, simulation modelling, and evidence-based decision making.
Role Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance workforce planning models that support long-term healthcare workforce forecasting and demand planning.
- Analyse complex datasets to understand workforce inflows, outflows, activity trends, and service demand across NHS settings.
- Apply system dynamics and simulation modelling techniques to improve existing models and develop new forecasting capabilities.
- Translate research evidence, operational data, and stakeholder requirements into robust analytical models and actionable insights.
- Collaborate with workforce planning and analytical teams to deliver modelling projects within challenging timescales.
- Produce visualisations, reports, and dashboards that communicate modelling outputs to a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Key Skills and Experience Required
- Proven experience working as a Data Scientist within a complex data-driven environment.
- Strong Python development skills with experience building, maintaining, and enhancing analytical or simulation models.
- Experience of system dynamics modelling, simulation engines, or forecasting methodologies.
- Knowledge of NHS activity, demand, referral, population health, or workforce data and how it influences service planning.
- Strong SQL skills with experience extracting, manipulating, and analysing large datasets.
- Experience using tools such as Power BI, Excel, and ideally R to support analysis, reporting, and data visualisation.
Role details:
- Job type: Contract
- Duration: 6 months
- Rate: £300 - £325 per day
- IR35 status: Inside IR35
- Location: Cardiff / Remote
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