Senior Public Health Scientist

We’re at the beginning of journey to excellence for our Public Health intelligence function with our ambition to improve population health. To deliver outstanding results we need outstanding people and are seeking inspired and talented individual with drive to reduce inequalities and who has an excellent ability to translate data into intelligence, insight and action. We need someone that’s passionate and can drive our insights into the social, economic and environmental determinants of health to inform our approach to tackling inequalities in health and create a stronger, fairer, safer Gwent.
Collaboration is at the heart of how we work with organisations across the area and our communities and so being a team player and outstanding communicator is essential. This role will require experience in using appropriate complex quantitative analytical approaches in a Public Health-related field for, data collection, analysis, and interpretation; and an ability to apply transferable skills in applied health and Public Health analytics, epidemiology, and/or statistics. It will be essential to have experience using Excel, R, python, SQL Queries, Power BI and other reporting tools. As a Marmot region, reducing health inequalities and tackling wider determinants of health is at the core of what we do. Having the ability and experience of working with wider determinants datasets, from multiple, varied different sources, to identify the stories that tell the story will be key.
Providing Public Health resource and analytical evidence to enable deeper understanding of the Gwent population to inform gaps in delivery and apprise appropriate interventions. Informing population health management and service improvement to enhance the health and wellbeing of the population of Gwent.
Supporting the development of population health indicators that will reduce inequalities using the linked data sets, from multiple different sources, and providing statistical insight about health, care and wellbeing across Gwent, including robust analytics surrounding primary, secondary and tertiary prevention. Supporting the development of the cloud-based warehouse to support our ambition for linked data. Having the ability to work in both a Patient Identifiable and Anonymised world.
A large part of the role with be a translation role, developing actionable insights across public and population health, building a population health management platform and ensuring we develop predictive modelling to support population health management now and for future generations. The postholder should demonstrate commitment to equality, diversity, equity, health and well-being.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
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