Associate Data Scientist

Working within the Health division of NECSWS your duties will feature a mix of maintaining existing applications, regular and bespoke report generation, dashboard creation, documenting code bases, cleansing datasets, identifying data quality issues in large databases, supporting the analytical requirements of clinical steering committees and looking for unique opportunities to deploy machine learning/NLP techniques to health data. The focus of this work will be on data that is held in clinical registries relating to various performance outcomes for patients who have undergone surgery. This role involves working closely with the data science and analytics team to develop new registries and health data reporting procedures to support the work of the NHS and private UK healthcare providers. This is a full-time remote role that may require occasional trips to NECSWS offices.

Key responsibilities include:

• Regularly scheduled and bespoke report generation, including the plotting of charts and statistical analysis of large data sets.
• Taking charge of data cleansing, quality assurance and supporting integration.
• Maintaining and improving existing analytical code bases.
• Writing queries to interrogate and explore existing databases, as well as answer bespoke requests from business consultants and customers.
• Contributing ideas to improve productivity and delivery.
• Liaising with members of the data quality, development, business analyst and data analyst/scientist teams to deliver collaborative outputs
• Building a clinical knowledge base through meeting regularly with clinical steering committees
• Working closely with clinicians to support their reporting and analytical needs
• Documenting project work and establishing logs of all changes made to our code.
• Upskilling and learning new concepts in health data analysis/management.