NHS Senior Data Scientist - Contract Role
Role: NHS Senior Data Scientist - Contract role
Seniority: Consultant - Senior Manager
Day rate: £250-£500
Project duration(s): 2-6 months, starting asap
Location: Hybrid in London
We’re supporting a healthcare transformation consultancy, headquartered in London. In this role you will work at the intersection of data science, healthcare strategy, and client delivery, partnering with NHS and life sciences organisations on complex, high-impact projects.
You will lead the design and delivery of advanced analytics solutions across population health management, real-world evidence (RWE), disease burden analysis, and predictive modelling to forecast health, care, and medicine sales outcomes.
We’ve a preference for you to apply directly via the Project Blackbook website as the consultancy will eventually view your profile in our platform. If you are already in the community, feel free to quickly apply here or reach out to your Blackbook contact, but no need to re-apply directly.
Tasks
- Client Delivery & Problem Solving
- Advanced Analytics & Modelling
- Data Engineering & Pipelines
- Software Engineering & Reproducibility
Requirements
- An independent consultant
- Expert Python and SQL skills for data manipulation, analysis, and modelling
- Solid grasp of software engineering principles
- Strong grounding in statistics (e.g. regression, hypothesis testing, time series, causal inference, etc.)
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