Public Health Analyst

Job summary

This role has a starting salary of £40,296 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week. This is an 18-month fixed-term contract/ secondment opportunity.

Are you passionate about the role of data in public health and healthcare decision-making?

Would you be motivated by the thought of leading analysis for important health needs assessments and pushing forward data science approaches?

Can you get behind our mission to reduce health inequalities for the residents of Surrey ensuring that no one is left behind?

If so, this role opportunity could be your next move!

We are excited to be hiring a new Public Health Intelligence Analyst to join our fantastic Public Health Intelligence and Insight Team. The team is based in Woodhatch, Reigate, Surrey. However, we care about how you work rather than where you work and offer flexible working and a hybrid approach.

Rewards and Benefits

• 26 days' holiday rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to support health and wellbeing
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
• 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
• Paid license for the DataCamp training platform.

Main duties of the job

Our Public Health Intelligence and Insight Team provides crucial data and insights that commissioners need to drive targeted improvements in population health and to tackle health inequalities effectively.

You will play a key part in analysing complex data sets, identifying key public health trends or outliers within these data sets. Typically structured within needs assessments, your analyses will explore a variety of geographical areas, population groups, and health and wellbeing issues, offering insights that guide our strategic decisions. You will provide vital support to Surrey's Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNA) assessing the current and future health and care needs for the Surrey system.

You will have a commitment to our scriptable and reproducible approach to data processing and intelligence reporting, and be excited about working in a coding language such as R, Python or SQL to produce data analysis.

You will support the wider intelligence team with the management of the public health mailbox. This will include in many cases working with the requester to refine research questions to enable insightful products, as well as completing the analysis.

Whilst our focus is on Public Health, we value diversity in professional backgrounds. You don't need to have a background in Public Health to apply. Your transferable skills from other areas within the Health and Social Care system or from healthcare analytics could offer invaluable perspectives to our team.

About us

Our Public Health Intelligence and Insight Team is here to generate evidence that helps communities of identity and geography which are often overlooked and currently most at risk of experiencing poor health outcomes, using Surrey's Health and Well-being Strategy to inform our aims.

We have a truly open and supportive team culture built over several years. In joining us, you will be supported to continue to build and share your specialist expertise. You will be provided with access to a paid-for analysis training platform, protected learning time, access to in-house training programmes and opportunities to shadow across the wider public health team.