Job summary
The Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London supports the spread and adoption of innovation in health and social care.
Our Insights team is looking to recruit an experienced Health Economist with the passion and drive to support South London's health and care organisations to deliver positive change through innovation.
The award-winning HIN is a vibrant and exciting place to work. We are hosted by Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, so staff enjoy the benefits of being part of the NHS family. Our office is based near Waterloo/Westminster stations and we offer great health and wellbeing support including yoga, a book club, lunchtime walks, and regular social events. Our HIN Academy provides fantastic training to upskill staff to work collaboratively across the system. We also offer regular opportunity for staff to work from home.
The successful candidate will support the delivery of key projects at the HIN, working with colleagues in health and care organisations across south London.
We are looking for someone with excellent quantitative and interpersonal skills, who has a track record of conducting health economic evaluations. For this role, experience in building user-friendly health economic models, conducting systematic literature reviews and writing reports summarising analyses would be particularly advantageous.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone who:
o understands key methodological frameworks in health economicso has a track record of conducting health economic evaluations adopting different perspectives and building user-friendly economic modelso works well as a part of team, and is able to balance priorities when working across multiple projects in a busy programmeo is able to develop close working relationships with key stakeholders at partner organisationso is confident in presenting findings to a variety of audienceso has experience of bid preparation and report writing
Quantitative assessment: Online, bookable slots on Friday 20th June or Monday 23 June
About us
What is the Health Innovation Network?
Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London is the health innovation network for south London. We are the bodies uniquely established to connect academics, NHS commissioners and providers, local authorities, patients and patient groups and industry to accelerate the spread and adoption of innovations and best practice, using an evidence-based approach, working across large populations. Working as catalysts of change across health and social care economies, we facilitate health improvements and economic growth.
We work across a huge range of health and care services through each of our clinical and innovation themes, to transform care in diabetes, cardiometabolic disease, mental health, community settings and social care, to accelerate digital health uptake into the NHS, and we're passionate about education.
The Health Innovation Network helps mobilise the value that the NHS can add as an economic asset to the UK economy. The HIN works with a range of expert support and services across the health and care sectors that support NHS innovators and companies to realise the commercial and economic potential of their innovations.
As part of the HIN adaptable working principles, which allows our ability to adapt to anticipated changes in project portfolios and gives staff the opportunity to enhance their skills and expertise, the successful candidate may be asked to operate across other themes and projects.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached JD and Person Specification for full information.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and ensure we have a diverse panel for all our recruitment.
Dont meet every single requirement in the person specification?Studies have shown that women and people from global majority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single criteria. At the HIN we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with what is stated, we encourage you to apply anyway or contact us to discuss. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached JD and Person Specification for full information.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and ensure we have a diverse panel for all our recruitment.
Dont meet every single requirement in the person specification?Studies have shown that women and people from global majority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single criteria. At the HIN we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with what is stated, we encourage you to apply anyway or contact us to discuss. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in a quantitative discipline.
- Post-graduate specialist training in a relevant discipline (e.g. health economics, statistics, operational research)
Desirable
- Master's Degree in relevant discipline (e.g., health economics, statistics, operational research).
Experience
Essential
- Reasonable post-qualification experience (i.e., after completing a degree and/or Master's) in undertaking health economic analyses.
- Proven experience of carrying out health economic evaluations and building models, e.g., cost-effectiveness analysis (including Markov and decision trees), cost-utility analysis, cost-consequence analysis, cost-benefit analysis, SROI, and budget impact analyses.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to use appropriate software to build health economic models (e.g., Excel) and carry out analyses (R, Stata, or Python).
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to perform systematic and targeted literature reviews.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in a quantitative discipline.
- Post-graduate specialist training in a relevant discipline (e.g. health economics, statistics, operational research)
Desirable
- Master's Degree in relevant discipline (e.g., health economics, statistics, operational research).
Experience
Essential
- Reasonable post-qualification experience (i.e., after completing a degree and/or Master's) in undertaking health economic analyses.
- Proven experience of carrying out health economic evaluations and building models, e.g., cost-effectiveness analysis (including Markov and decision trees), cost-utility analysis, cost-consequence analysis, cost-benefit analysis, SROI, and budget impact analyses.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to use appropriate software to build health economic models (e.g., Excel) and carry out analyses (R, Stata, or Python).
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to perform systematic and targeted literature reviews.
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.
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).
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.
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).
