Lead Health Economist - London, United Kingdom - NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Salary - up to £54,619 (including HCLA where appropriate)

Office - Flexible,Based in either our office in Canary Wharf, London (with a minimum requirement of two days per week in the office to be eligible to receive the London HCLA) or agile/home-basedfrom anywhere in the UK

The lead health economist manages the work of the health economics team, including providing health economics analyses on a range of exciting and high-profile projects.

They are responsible for evaluating innovation such as digital health solutions and medical technologies. This includes developing models to assess the cost effectiveness of interventions; producing budget impact models; and supporting complex decision making and resource allocation across the health and care system

They are a champion of professionalising and advancing NHS health economics. They will publish their work where appropriate and contribute to scientific conferences whenever possible.
About you

We are looking for someone that is passionate kind and enthusiastic about using health economics to make informed decisions on resource allocation, help transform how healthcare is delivered, and improve the lives of our population.

The HEU creates fantastic, useful insights by working in collaboration and partnership, internally and externally, and we need people that will thrive in this environment.

Reporting to the Chief of Health Economics and Outcomes Research you will form part of an expert team and your reposnibilitues will include:

Developing logic models and evaluation frameworks including mixed method approaches to evaluate innovation such as medical devices and digital solutions
Generating evidence to inform the adoption of innovations
Providing advanced health economics and analytical services to clients, supporting the delivery of health economics services to both public and private sectors
Designing and developing transparent and userfriendly health economic models
Performing systematic literature reviews
Using RWD to inform evaluations. Analysing, synthesising and presenting data extracted from health and social care databases
Actively contributing to The HEU's, and your, public profile and presence through posters, abstracts, academic publications and presentations at conferences, events and events
Developing proposals to meet client project briefs for new business opportunities and services
Contributing to one strategic function at HEU such as Quality Assurance
Be an active member of the senior team ( All HEU Leads)
Line manages senior health economists

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU)is one of the biggest and best-performing commissioning support units in the country, with among the highest levels of staff and customer satisfaction.

We work together as a team of over 1,600 expert staff based across the Midlands and North West to make a difference - for our customers, patients and communities.

The HEU is a specialist team hosted by the NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU).The HEU has been created to deliver impactful insights that power the future development of health and care delivery.

Our experts support health system and industry leaders to make the best possible decisions and design the highest quality, most efficient and most innovative services to improve the health of communities across the country.

In return, we provide a supportive environment in which to learn and develop, with the opportunity to further your skills and career within an exciting and evolving environment.

Joining our inclusive and innovative team comes with a range of benefits including flexible & agile working arrangements, pension scheme and generous annual leave allowance.

With our training schemes and support networks, you will be empowered to play a leading role in the future of healthcare, whatever your specialism or interest.

And as a member of NHS staff you will receive plenty of discounts too (please see job description)

Key responsibilities

The post holder will undertake the following duties:
Health economics function

Select an appropriate health economic approach, design and development of transparent and userfriendly economic models such budget impact models, costeffectiveness models
Develop logic models and evaluation frameworks including mixed method approaches to evaluate medicines and technologies such as medical devices and digital health solutions
Support the delivery of health economics services to both public and private sectors
Perform systematic and targeted literature reviews
Undertake health economics outcome research studies including the syntheses of evidence e.g., perform metaanalyses
Analysis, synthesis and presentation of data extracted from health and social care databases (real world data) to inform models (e.g., budget impact, CEA)
Develop study design, development and implementation across a variety of therapeutic areas
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