• Job Description

  Req#: C9028-26-0029?language=en&page=60&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY PERFORMANCE AND IMPROVING WALES' NHS AND PUBLIC HEALTH WALES.

  An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the NHS Wales Financial Planning & Delivery Directorate as a Senior Data Scientist. You will be joining an innovative and award-winning team that is passionate about delivering value within NHS Wales, offering insights to the wider system by triangulating patient outcomes, financial data and healthcare activity, supporting financial sustainability and improvement across the system.

  As the profile and reputation of the Directorate has grown since its inception, so has the demand for its expertise and insight.

  It is an exciting time for individuals with drive and ambition to join the team with a growing work programme, agenda, and opportunity to make a difference within NHS Wales.

  Main duties of the job

  This post sits within the Financial Planning & Delivery directorate of NHS Wales Performance and Improvement.

  In order to support the provision of insightful information, we have developed an Analytics Centre of Excellence, leading the development of high-quality products that provide insight and intelligence to a wide range of stakeholders, including finance professionals, clinicians, operational teams and boards. We are seeking to expand this team through recruitment of dedicated informatics professionals to work alongside our business analysts.

  Our work programme is focused on the following six themes:-

  • Intelligence and Insight;
  • Support and Challenge;
  • Value Based Healthcare;
  • Best Practice Financial Management;
  • Planning and Monitoring;
  • Leadership & Development;

  The Senior Data Scientist will play a pivotal role in:

  • Navigating and linking big data sets
  • Producing high quality data visualisations to demonstrate variation and highlight key themes and messages
  • Maximising innovative opportunities around predictive analytics and forecasting
  • Developing innovative solutions to complex problems
  • Quality assuring and validating data; and
  • Delivering high profile projects, contributing to the delivery of our work streams.

  About us

  NHS Performance & Improvement works in partnership for and on behalf of Welsh Government, in and with the NHS in Wales and is hosted by Public Health Wales.

  Our key purpose is to drive improvements in the quality and safety of care - resulting in better and more equitable outcomes, access and patient experience, reduced variation, and improvements in population health.

  We do this by providing strong leadership and strategic direction - enabling, supporting, and directing NHS Wales to transform clinical services in line with national priorities and standards.

  To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/

  For guidance on the application process, please visithttps://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/

  Details

  Date posted

  18 February 2026

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £48,527 to £55,532 a year per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  028-AC026-0226

  Job locations

  Bocam Park, Pencoed

  Unit 2 Old Field Road

  Bridgend

  CF32 9AD

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

  The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

  The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Relevant experience to Master degree level or equivalent professional experience.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.

  Desirable

  • Project management qualification or equivalent experience.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of linking complex data sets to derive meaningful analysis.
  • Experience of validating and quality assuring outputs.
  • Experience of statistical analysis of highly complex information.
  • Experience of planning workload independently and project management skills
  • Ability to manage complex and varying workloads whilst delivering to often tight timescales.
  • Experience and understanding of data quality issues (including resolution of such issues).
  • Significant experience of databases/data modelling tools within an information environment.
  • Experience of providing and presenting highly complex information to clinicians and senior managers.

  Desirable

  • Experience of providing specialist advice on highly complex information issues
  • Experience of using business intelligence tools to provide meaningful insight to a range of audiences.
  • Experience of using Microsoft Power BI and Power Automate.
  • Experience in machine learning and statistical modelling, including supervised and unsupervised learning, and time-series forecasting.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Relevant experience to Master degree level or equivalent professional experience.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.

  Desirable

  • Project management qualification or equivalent experience.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of linking complex data sets to derive meaningful analysis.
  • Experience of validating and quality assuring outputs.
  • Experience of statistical analysis of highly complex information.
  • Experience of planning workload independently and project management skills
  • Ability to manage complex and varying workloads whilst delivering to often tight timescales.
  • Experience and understanding of data quality issues (including resolution of such issues).
  • Significant experience of databases/data modelling tools within an information environment.
  • Experience of providing and presenting highly complex information to clinicians and senior managers.

  Desirable

  • Experience of providing specialist advice on highly complex information issues
  • Experience of using business intelligence tools to provide meaningful insight to a range of audiences.
  • Experience of using Microsoft Power BI and Power Automate.
  • Experience in machine learning and statistical modelling, including supervised and unsupervised learning, and time-series forecasting.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Public Health Wales

  Address

  Bocam Park, Pencoed

  Unit 2 Old Field Road

  Bridgend

  CF32 9AD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://phw.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Public Health Wales

  Address

  Bocam Park, Pencoed

  Unit 2 Old Field Road

  Bridgend

  CF32 9AD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://phw.nhs.wales/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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