Data Scientist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 19/08/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
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Role summary
This Data Scientist role involves using data, statistics, and machine learning to solve problems and improve decision-making within the NHS. The post holder will develop and evaluate statistical and machine learning approaches for population health analysis, risk stratification, and predictive modelling. They will focus on creating reproducible analytical pipelines and production-ready workflows, integrating models into data products and operational services. The role emphasizes discovery, experimentation, and rapid prototyping, ensuring solutions are robust, explainable, and validated. It requires working with complex datasets and collaborating with various teams to translate business needs into analytical solutions.
Essential criteria
- Please also see attached Person Specification.
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate.
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may be a few courses of action.
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
- Used to working in a busy environment.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Commitment to continuing professional development.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Effective organiser.
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Please also see attached Person Specification.
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information systems development.
- Workforce development knowledge and experience.
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
- Please also see attached Person Specification.
- Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
- Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales Previous experience in project management and planning.
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring the performance of health services.
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management.
- Previous experience in similar role in public sector.
- Skills, abilities and Knowledge
- Please also see attached Person Specification.
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action to address the issues.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate.
- Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis.
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may be a few courses of action.
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
- Used to working in a busy environment.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Commitment to continuing professional development.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Effective organiser.
- Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Please also see attached Person Specification.
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
- Comprehensive knowledge of project management and/or health information systems development.
- Workforce development knowledge and experience.
- A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
- Please also see attached Person Specification.
- Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support.
- Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets.
- Abili
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 19d ago · Closes in 7d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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NHS Dorset
Data Scientist
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
Data
Scientists play a key role in using data, stats & machine learning to solve problems
& improve decision-making. They will develop & evaluate statistical &
machine learning approaches, focus on applications such as population health
analysis, risk stratification, forecasting, segmentation & predictive
modelling. Bringing together complex datasets, identifying appropriate
modelling approaches, evaluating performance & ensuring outputs &
limitations are understood. Strong focus on moving data science beyond one-off
analysis. Develop reproducible analytical pipelines & production-ready
analytical workflows, working with engineering colleagues to integrate models &
analytical capabilities into data products & operational services. Use
modern collaborative development practices including Git, automated testing,
DevOps pipelines & CI/CD, helping ensure analytical code & models can
be developed, tested, deployed & updated in a controlled & reproducible
way. Emphasis placed on discovery, experimentation & rapid prototyping,
testing hypotheses & modelling approaches early, evaluating whether they
provide meaningful value & iterating based on evidence & user feedback.
Ensure solutions are robust, reproducible, explainable & appropriately
validated, consideration given to model performance, uncert
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