Job Specifications
About Us
Our Future Health will be the UK's largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent, and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.
Despite big improvements in healthcare in our lifetimes, today millions of people in the UK still live in poor health as they get older. Diseases like cancer, dementia, diabetes, and heart disease affect the lives of many people in our communities. Our goal is to create a world-leading resource for health research, to improve our understanding and spot the patterns of how and why common diseases start, so treatments can begin sooner and be more effective.
Our plan is to bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people's health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer.
We're building technology to unlock the potential of Our Future Health data for a broad set of users - providing health planners, commissioners, and policymakers with insights about population health to enable better, faster decisions that improve lives.
As Senior Scientist, you'll be joining this work at an early stage and will play a pivotal role in shaping it from the ground up. You'll be hands on, working closely with our science, product and technology teams to define requirements, design innovative solutions and rigorously test them as we scale.
In this role, you will:
Support stakeholders and research customers in framing analytical questions, structuring complex problems and defining their data requirements
Bring a data-as-a-product mindset, with a focus on impact and outcomes for end users, ensuring that our research customers get maximum value out of our data products
Enable us to deliver prototypes of new data products and features at pace, making sure that they are high quality, trustworthy and understandable, and meet data privacy requirements
Channel customer feedback into the product roadmap and ensure that the right opportunities are flagged to the business development team
Responsibilities will include:
Contributing to the design and development of high-quality data products that meet stakeholder and research customers' needs (for example, dashboards and visualisations)
Providing the data and information required to support conversations with stakeholders, for example regarding prototypes or beta releases
Defining the data requirements for relevant data products and insights
Using agile methods to iterate on data products and visualisations by writing tested and auditable code
Contributing to the development of data pipelines, bringing a focus to the needs of end users and acting as a subject matter expert who influences your team
Working with relevant internal experts to ensure that data products meet ethical, data privacy and regulatory requirements
This role will be fully hybrid with the expectation we get together in our Holborn, London office at least once per month.
Requirements
We welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria, so if you have most of the below, we'd like to hear from you:
Track record of applying data science methods across diverse problem domains within health and life sciences, such as clinical analytics, population health, or pharmaceutical research
Experience in working a range of large-scale health datasets, for example electronic health records
Strong foundation in data analysis and statistical methods relevant for population health management, ideally including risk stratification and population segmentation methods
Familiar with common medical and health data coding systems and formats such as ICD-10, SNOMED-CT, Read
Proficient in Python or R, SQL and version control
Skilled in data visualisation and communicating insights clearly to non-technical audiences. Experience using BI tools (PowerBI, Looker, Omni) is desirable
Ability to work in cross-functional teams, and a receptiveness to learning from feedback from others
Strong consultancy skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders to understand their needs, clarify objectives, and shape analytical approaches
Resilient and adaptable, bringing motivation to problem solve within an ambiguous or changing environment.
Awareness of how public health systems operate at a national and local level
Benefits
Competitive base salary from £70,000
Generous Pension Scheme - We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%
30 Days Holiday pro rata + Bank Holidays - Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you
Enhanced Parental Leave - Suppor
About the Company
Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases.
Our mission is to create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK. Each volunteer will be asked to fill out a questionnaire and provide a blood sample that can be linked to their health records. Taken together, the data will present health researchers with a powerful tool to identify ...
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