Data Scientist/Consultant - Healthcare Data Platform (6 months, remote)
Posted Today by Sentinel
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Data Scientist/Consultant focuses on supporting a healthcare consultancy client in adopting a data platform. The position involves engaging with stakeholders, preparing datasets, building analytics tools, and providing insights to enhance decision-making. Ideal candidates should possess a consulting background and experience with healthcare data platforms. This is a Junior to Mid-Level position that emphasizes collaboration and communication skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage with stakeholders to understand business and data requirements
- Clean and prepare datasets for analysis and reporting
- Build simple data pipelines using SQL and Python
- Create dashboards to support operational and clinical decision-making
- Produce basic analytics and trend reporting to answer stakeholder business questions
- Document processes and support end users with guidance and best practices for platform adoption
- Collaborate with platform engineers, data teams, and consultants to deliver the project
Key Skills:
- Experience with healthcare data platforms (such as NHS Federated Data Platform, Shared Care Records, Graphnet, Population Health Management platforms)
- Analytics skills (SQL, Python)
- Ability to build dashboards and visualisations (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent)
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Comfortable balancing consulting work with data analysis
- Previous consulting experience (desirable)
- Familiarity with NHS data standards (e.g. SUS, ECDS, SNOMED CT, FHIR) (desirable)
- Exposure to healthcare datasets (desirable)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Consulting
Data Scientist/Consultant - Healthcare Data Platform (6 months, remote) Role: We are looking for a Junior to Mid-Level Data Scientist/Consultant to join one of our healthcare consultancy clients. This role sits within a team facilitating the adoption of a data platform by a healthcare organisation, including providing insights, building analytics tools and supporting stakeholders in using the platform. The ideal candidate would have a consulting background, some data science experience, and prior exposure to a healthcare data platform.
Responsibilities:
- Engage with stakeholders to understand business and data requirements
- Clean and prepare datasets for analysis and reporting
- Build simple data pipelines using SQL and Python
- Create dashboards to support operational and clinical decision-making
- Produce basic analytics and trend reporting to answer stakeholder business questions
- Document processes and support end users with guidance and best practices for platform adoption
- Collaborate with platform engineers, data teams, and consultants to deliver the project
Required:
- Experience with healthcare data platforms (such as NHS Federated Data Platform, Shared Care Records, Graphnet, Population Health Management platforms)
- Analytics skills (SQL, Python)
- Ability to build dashboards and visualisations (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent)
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Comfortable balancing consulting work with data analysis
Desirable
- Previous consulting experience
- Familiarity with NHS data standards (e.g. SUS, ECDS, SNOMED CT, FHIR)
- Exposure to healthcare datasets