Health Economist

The postholder will provide health economics expertise and advanced analytical skills to support the organisations population health, commissioning and evaluation priorities.

They will lead the development of high quality analyses that integrate economicmodelling, clinical and population health impacts, and service use data to generate actionable insights that improve health outcomes, reducesinequalities, and inform strategic decision making.

• The postholder will contribute to and sometimes lead complex, multi-source analytical projects to feed into commissioning, decision-making, and evaluation
• They will contribute to and sometimes lead analytical modelling projects with a Health Economics focus
• Act as the ICB expert on Health Economics and econometrics, developing our understanding of how we cost/value interventions, and understand cost vs. benefit
• They will conduct high complexity analytics to as part of economic evaluation, such as cost effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis, cost-benefit analysis, return on investment, and multi-criteria decision analysis
• Support the use of STAR allocative methods, appraising evidence, developing costing/value metrics, and training others and required
• They will apply advanced problem structuring and appropriate statistical methods for example logic modelling and root cause analysis
• They will work with the Data Science team, using Open-Source coding methods and source control, to deliver complex analytical projects requiring varied skillsets
• To promote analysis and use of evidence in decision making, ensuring that the work of the team is accessible and perceived as valuable
• Work autonomously, proactively solving health economic, statistical and analytical problems and challenges as they occur
• Lead the team in the delivery of project plans as allocated and agreed with the Head of Data Science, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and options

Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Integrated Care System bring together the NHS,councils and voluntary sector to serve 2.7 million people. Our vision is to bethe healthiest place to live and work, improving life chances and reducinginequalities.

You will modelsystem values, champion inclusion and actively address health inequalities,helping create an environment where everyone can thrive. In return, the Clusteroffers a supportive, ambitious and inclusive environment with opportunities todevelop and work across partners to deliver meaningful change.

The ICB is committed to having a workforce which is representative of the population of Birmingham,the Black Country, and Solihull Cluster. Our current staffing profiledemonstrates that we are not as representative as we would like to be at thislevel within the organisation. We would actively welcome applications fromwomen and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

The ICB is registered as a Disability Confident Employer. We actively welcome applications from applicants with a disability and commit to shortlisting allsuch suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you require to participate in the recruitment process.

You will be accountable for:

1.The postholderwill contribute to and sometimes lead complex, multi-source analytical projects to feed into commissioning, decision-making, and evaluation.

2.They will contribute to and sometimes lead analytical modelling projects with a Health Economics focus.

3.Act as the ICB experton Health Economics and econometrics, developing our understanding of how wecost/value interventions, and understand cost vs. benefit.

4.They will conducthigh complexity analytics to as part of economic evaluation, such as costeffectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis, cost-benefit analysis, return on investment, and multi-criteria decision analysis.

5.Support the useof STAR allocative methods, appraising evidence, developing costing/valuemetrics, and training others and required.

6.They will apply advanced problem structuring and appropriate statistical methods for example logic modelling and rootcause analysis.

7.They will workwith the Data Science team, using Open Source codingmethods and source control, to deliver complex analytical projects requiring variedskillsets.

8.To promoteanalysis and use of evidence in decision making, ensuring that the work of theteam is accessible and perceived as valuable.

9.Workautonomously, proactively solving health economic, statistical and analytical problems and challenges as they occur.

10.Lead the team inthe delivery of project plans as allocated and agreed with the Head of Data Science, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.

11.Pro-activelymanage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict when this arises throughfacilitation or other appropriate…