Job vacancy: Senior Data Scientist, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Bridgend

Job summary

Main area: Finance
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Secondment: 12 months (INTERNAL TO NHS WALES PERFORMANCE & IMPROVEMENT and PUBLIC HEALTH WALES)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 028-AC145-0625

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Bocam Park, Pencoed
Town: Bridgend
Salary: £46,840 - £53,602 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/07/2025 23:59
Interview date: 23/07/2025

Senior Data Scientist

Band 7

Welcome to NHS Wales Performance and Improvement, a new national support function, operational from 1 April 2023

Our key purpose is to…

Drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.

To find out more visit NHS Wales Performance and Improvement.

Our values

Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Relevant experience to Master degree level or equivalent professional experience.
Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable criteria

Project management qualification or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of linking complex data sets to derive meaningful analysis.
Experience of validating and quality assuring outputs.
Experience of statistical analysis of highly complex information.
Experience of planning workload independently and project management skills
Ability to manage complex and varying workloads whilst delivering to often tight timescales.
Experience and understanding of data quality issues (including resolution of such issues).
Significant experience of databases/data modelling tools within an information environment.
Experience of providing and presenting highly complex information to clinicians and senior managers.

Desirable criteria

Experience of providing specialist advice on highly complex information issues
Experience of using business intelligence tools to provide meaningful insight to a range of audiences.
Experience of using Microsoft Power BI and Power Automate.
Experience in machine learning and statistical modelling, including supervised and unsupervised learning, and time-series forecasting.

NHS Wales Performance and Improvement, reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.

Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.

If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected]

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.

If you are successful and short listed for interview you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.

We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals who may wish to work part time or apply on a job share basis.

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.

In general, anyone joining our organisation who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.