Job Description

Become a key member of an expert team delivering impactful work shaping the future of health and care.This Senior Health Economist role is a fantastic opportunity to work in the dynamic Health Economics Unit (HEU), part of NHS Midlands and Lancashire (MLCSU).



Bring your expertise and enthusiasm to a wide range of projects, helping organisations from within the NHS and beyond to make better decisions and improve public health.



We are looking for someone that is passionate kind and enthusiastic about using health economics to make informed decisions on resource allocation, and evaluate innovation to help transform how healthcare is delivered, and improve the lives of our population.



The HEU creates fantastic, useful insights by working in collaboration and partnership, internally with other CSU units and externally, and we need people that will thrive in this environment.



In return, we will offer you flexible working; access to training and development; access to the big benefits of working for the NHS (including NHS pension). As part of the health economics team, you will work alongside a wider team of experts including data scientists, data engineers, client service managers. You will have the exciting opportunity to use real

world data to inform your economic analyses.



HCA will apply where there is a service requirement to routinely work from the London base and/or to be available to work within the local operational area (a minimum of 40% of contracted hours.

The postholder responsibilities will include:

Supporting the delivery of health economics services to both public and private sectors



Gathering/generating evidence to inform the adoption of innovations



Designing and developing transparent and user-friendly health economic models.



Developing logic models and economic evaluation frameworks including mixed method approaches to evaluate medicines and technologies such as medical devices and digital solutions



Providing advanced health economics and analytical services to strategic healthcare projects and programmes



Selecting and applying appropriate analytical techniques and methodologies



Performing systematic and targeted literature reviews



Analysing, synthesising and presenting data extracted from health and social care databases (real world data) to inform models (e.g. budget impact, CEA)



Sharing your expertise through both internal and external teaching and presenting



Actively contributing to The Health Economics Unit's, and your, public profile and presence through posters, abstracts, academic publications and presentations at academic conferences, events and in the social media



Building relationships with stakeholders and industry partners



Developing proposals to meet client project briefs including resource requirements, cost estimates and timescales and developing new business opportunities and services



Manage client relationships and manage a portfolio of projects



The HEU team



The HEU has been created to deliver impactful insights that power the future development of health and care delivery. We are a team of economists, data scientists, data engineers, clients service managers and communications. Our team are employees of the NHS Midlands and

Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU)



We specialise in using real world data for health economic analyses and population health management, generating evidence to assess the adoption of innovation and to improve the health of the population.



We are a dynamic team open to collaboration, considering various approaches to problem solving and continuous team development.



As an employee of the NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU), the post holder will be required to uphold and abide by all CSU policies on, for example: information governance, data protection and confidentiality; equality and diversity; safeguarding children and adults; and health and safety (this is not an exhaustive list).



Please note for any NHS candidates in substantive roles applying for fixed terms contract positions (both for internal and external applicants), these have to be agreed on a secondment basis. Prior to applying for the position, you must discuss with your current Line Manager and HOS to ask permission to be released on a secondment basis, should you be successful in your application.



Any applications from 'at risk' CSU employees will be given priority in line with CSU policy.



The Role

Reporting to the Lead health economist, and Chief of health economics and outcomes research you will form part of an expert team who can:



Understand the context within which our customers operate and assist them to identify and structure the problems they need to address. You will have a good knowledge of the National Health Service, its organisational structures and operational processes and an appetite to learn more.



Select the most appropriate evaluation, health economic modelling and analytic techniques including where possible, the use of real-world data for analyses. You will bring excellent skills grounded in health economics.



Interpret and explain the results of economic analyses to senior managers and clinicians, conveying both the key findings and the critical uncertainties that remain. Having conducted your analysis, you will be keen to share it, highlighting the significance of your results to those that can make use of them.



Take advantage of the wealth of data that The Health Economics Unit has secured to address the big questions that face the health service of today and tomorrow.



The position is client-facing and the postholder will be required to lead on evaluations and health economic modelling projects.

The postholder responsibilities will include:

Supporting the delivery of health economics services to both public and private sectors



Gathering/generating evidence to inform the adoption of innovations



Designing and developing transparent and user-friendly health economic models



Developing logic models and economic evaluation frameworks including mixed method approaches to evaluate medicines and technologies such as medical devices and digital solutions



Providing advanced health economics and analytical services to strategic healthcare projects and programmes



Selecting and applying appropriate analytical techniques and methodologies



Performing systematic and targeted literature reviews



Analysing, synthesising and presenting data extracted from health and social care databases (real world data) to inform models (e.g. budget impact, CEA)



Sharing knowledge and encouraging growth in our organisation and others, through teaching



Actively contributing to The Health Economics Unit's, and your, public profile and presence through posters, abstracts, academic publications and presentations at academic conferences, events and in the social media



Building relationships with stakeholders and industry partners



Developing proposals to meet client project briefs including resource requirements, cost estimates and timescales and developing new business opportunities and services



Managing client relationships and a portfolio of projects



FTC offered to back fill an existing secondment in the department.