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About
NHS England’s purpose is to create the conditions for an ambitious and high quality NHS. We empower our people and partners to solve problems, provide outstanding care for every patient and improve the nation's health.
Our 7 regional teams work directly with systems and NHS providers across the country. Each region acts as the interface between national strategy and local delivery, overseeing performance, supporting improvement and enabling transformation at scale.
Contact
- Address
- Wellington House
- 133-155 Waterloo Road
- London
- SE1 8UG
- Contact Number
- 0300 330 1369
Data scientist (Data Wrangler)
Accepting applications until: 12-Jul-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 12-Jul-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Leeds / London
- Cyfeiriad
- NHS England, 7/8 Wellington Place, Leeds,
- Tref
- Leeds / London
- Cod post
- LS1 4AP
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
Salary
- Cyflog
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum (exclusive of London weighting)
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Data Science
Our Organisation
We share the core values set out in the NHS Constitution, which all colleagues are expected to demonstrate.
We support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you and your colleagues. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Are you passionate about using data science to improve healthcare? Join NHS England’s data science teams and play a key role in tackling complex challenges, delivering high-quality insights, and building tools that support better decisions across the NHS.
We value modern ways of working, including transparency, reproducibility, agile delivery, and open-source tools. As a Band 7 Data scientist (Data Wrangler), you’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, developing advanced data science methods, building data pipelines, and producing impactful analytical products.
If you want to make a real difference through innovative analytics and progress your career in a supportive, collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you.
When applying, please demonstrate your ability in these competency areas: Analytics for Impact, Professional Delivery & Innovation, Engineering, and Leadership & Collaboration.
Advert
Duties of a Band 7 Data scientist (Data Wrangler) include:
• Development and maintenance of data science products
• Identification and development of data science applications across policy and operational challenges
• Research and horizon scanning for data science in health and care, including active relationships with academia and industry.
• Provide support to NHS England and wider health and care sector to enable good use of data science.
• Champion adoption of modern ways of working to deliver analytical products (such as transparency, reproducibility, adoption of open-source tools, agile project management)
• Communicate analytical insight in an engaging and impactful way
• Working in multi-disciplinary teams across NHSE to inject data science expertise into delivery of data products.
• Invest in professional development of self and wider team in line with the Data Science Competency Framework for Health and Care professionals.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Your application needs to show evidence of your competence in the following areas:
Analytics for impact
· Apply a range of analytical techniques, in consultation with experts if appropriate, and with sensitivity to the limitations of the techniques.
· Use expertise to propose techniques appropriate to business problem and characteristics of dataset.
· Draw on expertise in several analytical techniques, including their theoretical basis and application.
· Identify key messages from analytical work, translating these into terms for use with either technical or non-technical audiences.
· Report on your own analytical work in sufficient detail, meeting customer needs, effectively presenting results in both written and oral form.
Professional delivery & innovation
· Work with customers to understand their needs, create clear plans and setting priorities which meet the needs of both the customer and the business.
· Deliver good customer service which balances quality and cost-effectiveness.
· Identify areas of potential risk in own and others' work, selecting and using appropriate Quality Assurance methods and suggesting appropriate mitigation of risk.
· Actively identify and take opportunities to promote data science to wider community.
· Experiment with innovations, manage and learn from failures and shares lessons learned within the team.
· Apply knowledge of new and evolving technologies, including open-source software, suggesting appropriate methods and techniques to incorporate in project work.
Engineering
· Use data exploration techniques to understand the characteristics of a dataset, evaluate suitability for subsequent analysis and explain this to other analysts.
· Apply data engineering standards and tools to create and maintain data pipelines.
· Document and communicate the details of data structures to others.
· Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor moderately complex programs/scripts.
· Collaborate in reviews of work with others as appropriate.
· Proactively adopt practices that ensure rigorous and reproducible findings in development of analytical data products.
Leadership & collaboration
· Understand how your work and the work of your team supports wider objectives and meets the diverse needs of stakeholders.
· Focus on overall goals and not just specific tasks to meet priorities.
· Show pride and passion for your work and positive, inclusive engagement with your team.
· Contribute to an inclusive working environment where all opinions and challenges are listened to, and all individual needs are taken into account.
· Change ways of working to aid cooperation within and between teams in order to achieve results.
· Offer support and help to colleagues when in need, including consideration of your own and their wellbeing.
Applicants should use their supporting statement to demonstrate their proven ability across these four areas. Your application will be assessed against these four areas.
Our commitments to you
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes.
We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that.
We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
We ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process. This includes considering reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate how you meet the requirements of the role. While we appreciate you may have had some support with your application (for example, using AI technology or guidance from a trusted individual), it’s important all the information you provide in it reflects your own knowledge, skills and experience and we trust that you apply on that basis.
If you’re applying for this role on a secondment basis, please get agreement from your current line manager before you apply.
We don’t accept applications via recruitment agencies, and we cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
To comply with the HM Government Functional Standard GovS 007, and specifically the Personnel Security Standards 2024, individuals employed or contracted by NHS England may be required to undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standards check, dependent on the role.
NHS Business Services Authority is responsible for processing your application; our privacy can be accessed directly on the application page when you select to apply.
If you are appointed to a post, your information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
If you have a query about your application, please contact the recruitment team: [email protected] or 0300 330 1369.
NHS England
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Educated to post-graduate degree level in a technical subject (such as Statistics, Mathematics, Physics or Computer Science) or equivalent specialist experience.
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Analytics for Impact - • Apply a range of analytical techniques, in consultation with experts if appropriate, and with sensitivity to the limitations of the techniques. • Use expertise to propose techniques appropriate to business problem and characteristics of dataset. • Draw on expertise in several analytical techniques, including their theoretical basis and application. • Identify key messages from analytical work, translating these into terms for use with either technical or non-technical audiences. • Report on your own analytical work in sufficient detail, meeting customer needs, effectively presenting results in both written and oral form.
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Professional delivery & Innovation - • Work with customers to understand their needs, create clear plans and setting priorities which meet the needs of both the customer and the business. • Deliver good customer service which balances quality and cost-effectiveness. • Identify areas of potential risk in own and others' work, selecting and using appropriate Quality Assurance methods and suggesting appropriate mitigation of risk. • Actively identify and take opportunities to promote data science to wider community. • Experiment with innovations, manage and learn from failures and shares lessons learned within the team. • Apply knowledge of new and evolving technologies, including open-source software, suggesting appropriate methods and techniques to incorporate in project work.
- Engineering - • Use data exploration techniques to understand the characteristics of a dataset, evaluate suitability for subsequent analysis and explain this to other analysts. • Apply data engineering standards and tools to create and maintain data pipelines. • Document and communicate the details of data structures to others. • Design, code, verify, test, document, amend and refactor moderately complex programs/scripts. • Collaborate in reviews of work with others as appropriate. • Proactively adopt practices that ensure rigorous and reproducible findings in development of analytical data products.
- Leadership & Collaboration - • Understand how your work and the work of your team supports wider objectives and meets the diverse needs of stakeholders. • Focus on overall goals and not just specific tasks to meet priorities. • Show pride and passion for your work and positive, inclusive engagement with your team. • Contribute to an inclusive working environment where all opinions and challenges are listened to, and all individual needs are taken into account. • Change ways of working to aid cooperation within and between teams in order to achieve results. • Offer support and help to colleagues when in need, including consideration of your own and their wellbeing.
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Rupert Chaplin
- Teitl y swydd
- Data Science Assistant Director
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
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