Interim Health Economist

Our client’s ambition is to lead, and enable locally, a transformation in the health expectations of all people in Enfield regardless of where in the Borough they live and the circumstance of their birth.

The post holder will be specifically responsible for ensuring that the use of evidence to inform and prioritise public health and healthcare commissioning activity (including evaluation of these activities) is supported and promoted. However, it is also expected that the post holder will have core skills that enable them to work flexibly with Public Health and other colleagues to ensure all key deliverables are achieved.

The post holder will undertake literature reviews, appraise the identified evidence, and prepare structured summaries of the evidence using established review methods for a variety of outputs including strategic planning and major commissioning initiatives, summaries for individual treatment funding request (ITFR) panels, significant contributions to major departmental reports such as the annual public health report and the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), as well as ad hoc requests for reviews.

The post holder will create and sustain good working relationships with public health commissioning colleagues as well as other PCT and Local Authority commissioning staff and staff undertaking evidence review and at Enfield local authority.

The post holder will be able to work independently without the need for substantial supervision to deliver work of high quality.

Experience/Skills Required:

• Masters in Health Economics or Masters in a related discipline (such as Health Services Research, Public Health or Operational Research) with a significant Health Economic evaluation component; or equivalent work experience

• Knowledge of epidemiology and clinical research methods

• Knowledge of decision analytic modelling of health care interventions

• Knowledge of cost effectiveness analysis

• Ability to analyse complex problems, preferably in a health services context.

• Knowledge of one or more quantitative data management package (such as Excel, Stata, Data/Treeage, SPSS, etc)