Statistician
Posted Today by Harvey Nash
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, UK
Summary: The LaunchPad Statistician will support innovation projects in healthcare by designing, delivering, and evaluating data-driven solutions aimed at improving patient outcomes and service efficiency. The role involves working with complex healthcare datasets and providing statistical expertise throughout the project lifecycle. The postholder will translate statistical outputs into actionable insights for various stakeholders while ensuring compliance with data governance and regulatory requirements. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to healthcare transformation through real-world evidence generation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the design, delivery, and evaluation of data-driven solutions in healthcare.
- Utilise routinely collected clinical data and manage datasets with inherent gaps and variability.
- Provide statistical input across the full project lifecycle, collaborating with various teams and partners.
- Develop statistical analysis plans aligned with project objectives and apply appropriate methodologies.
- Translate complex statistical outputs into clear insights for stakeholders.
- Contribute to reporting requirements, including highlight reports and external publications.
- Ensure adherence to data governance, information governance, and regulatory requirements.
Key Skills:
- Degree in statistics, mathematics, or data science.
- Experience working with NHS Health Boards and datasets.
- Experience delivering statistical analysis across multiple projects.
- Ability to produce statistical analysis plans, reports, and dashboards.
- Experience with data linkage and Trusted Research Environments.
- Evidence of continued professional development in health data science or project methodology.
- Postgraduate qualification in statistics, public health, or a relevant discipline (desirable).
- Knowledge of AI/ML approaches in healthcare (desirable).
Salary (Rate): £DOE daily
City: Glasgow
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
LaunchPad Statistician 12 Month Contract (Outside IR35) Hybrid, Glasgow Starting ASAP
Day Rate: £DOE
About the Role:
The LaunchPad Statistician will play a key role in supporting a diverse portfolio of innovation projects across healthcare settings, contributing to the design, delivery, and evaluation of data-driven solutions that improve patient outcomes, service efficiency, and system sustainability. The post will primarily utilise routinely collected usual care data provided through the Safe Haven environment, with an understanding that datasets may be subject to gaps, variability, or incomplete records inherent to real-world clinical data sources.
Working closely with project managers, clinical leads, digital teams, and external partners, the postholder will provide expert statistical input across the full project lifecycle. The role will involve working with complex, real-world healthcare datasets, including routinely collected clinical data, digital health outputs, and linked datasets within secure environments such as Trusted Research Environments (TREs).
The postholder will be responsible for developing robust statistical analysis plans aligned to project objectives, applying appropriate quantitative methodologies, and ensuring outputs are accurate, reproducible, and compliant with relevant governance frameworks. This includes supporting evaluations of digital health technologies, service redesign initiatives, and Pathway transformation programmes.
A key aspect of the role will be translating complex statistical outputs into clear, actionable insights for a wide range of stakeholders, including clinicians, operational teams, industry partners, and senior leadership. The analyst will contribute to reporting requirements, including highlight reports, steering group updates, and external dissemination such as publications and presentations.
The role also requires close adherence to data governance, information governance, and regulatory requirements, ensuring all analyses are conducted in line with policies, data protection legislation, and best practice in research and innovation.
This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of data, innovation, and healthcare transformation, supporting the generation of real-world evidence to inform decision-making and scale impactful solutions across the business.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Degree in statistics, mathematics, data science
- Experience of working with NHS Health Boards
- Experience working with NHS datasets
- Experience delivering statistical analysis across multiple projects or a programme/portfolio
- Producing statistical analysis plans, reports, dashboards, or publications
- Experience with data linkage and working within Trusted Research Environments
Desirable Qualifications
- Evidence of continued professional development in areas such as: Health data science, project methodology. Etc
- Postgraduate qualification (MSc/PhD) in statistics, public health, or a relevant discipline
- Knowledge of AI/ML approaches and their application in healthcare
This role has been deemed Outside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.