Public Health Analyst

• Location: Woodhatch Place, 11 Cockshot Hill, Reigate, RH2 8EF

We are committed to the development of our workforce.
This position is only available to applicants who already work for Surrey County Council. We thank you for your interest in our roles and would encourage you to review our vacancies which are open to all.

This permanent role has a starting salary of £41,585 per annum,based on a36 hour working week.
Are you passionate about using data and statistics to make a meaningful impact within the health and care sector? If so, we have an exciting opportunity that might be just what you're looking for.

We have a great opportunity to join our Public Health Intelligence and Insights team as a Public Health Analyst. We support hybrid working with working from home mixed with some days in the office.

• 26 days' holiday, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 31 days after 5 years' service
• Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave and 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependents leave
• An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
• Wellbeing and lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, and shopping
• A chance to make a real difference to the lives of our residents.

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 support the wider intelligence team with the completion of ad-hoc requests. This will include in many cases working with the requester to refine research questions to enable insightful products, as well as completing the analysis. This requires a specialist understanding of public health data; where to access datasets, how to interpret complex public health datasets, and how to explain these results to the wider team to enable commissioning of services.

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 care system or from healthcare analytics could offer invaluable perspectives to our team.

In order to be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours :

• Experience of using statistical and epidemiological methods for analysing data sets
• Experience of working with multiple sets of health-related data
• Experience of, or passion for, using analytics as evidence within assessments of need, dashboards, or other statistical reporting
• Knowledge of a coding language such as R, Python or SQL and experience of using code for data analysis and/or reports
• Experience of using, or interest in learning, Tableau for data visualisation

To apply, we request that you submit a CV and you will be asked the following 4 questions:

• Please tell us about an example of a project where you have analysed a complex data set, what statistical or epidemiological methods you used to interpret the results. Please detail the project, your role, and the results from your contributions.
• Please describe your experience, to‑date, in the use of software such as R, python or SQL. For the language you are most familiar with, please provide an example of a recent data transformation or statistical analysis you have carried out, describing your approach.
• Please describe your experience,…