Data Scientist

Salary: £78,000 - 84,500 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience working as a Data Scientist within a complex data-driven environment.
• Strong Python development skills with experience building, maintaining, and enhancing analytical or simulation models.
• Experience of system dynamics modelling, simulation engines, or forecasting methodologies.
• Knowledge of NHS activity, demand, referral, population health, or workforce data and how it influences service planning.
• Strong SQL skills with experience extracting, manipulating, and analysing large datasets.
• Experience using tools such as Power BI, Excel, and ideally R to support analysis, reporting, and data visualisation.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and enhance workforce planning models that support long-term healthcare workforce forecasting and demand planning.
• Analyse complex datasets to understand workforce inflows, outflows, activity trends, and service demand across NHS settings.
• Apply system dynamics and simulation modelling techniques to improve existing models and develop new forecasting capabilities.
• Translate research evidence, operational data, and stakeholder requirements into robust analytical models and actionable insights.
• Collaborate with workforce planning and analytical teams to deliver modelling projects within challenging timescales.
• Produce visualisations, reports, and dashboards that communicate modelling outputs to a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Technologies:

• Excel
• Support
• Power BI
• Python
• SQL

More:

We are partnering with an NHS client seeking a Data Scientist to join on a 6-month contract basis in Cardiff / Remote. This role is inside IR35 with a rate of £300 - £325 per day. We offer the opportunity to contribute to high-profile modelling projects that support strategic healthcare planning, workforce forecasting, advanced analytics, and evidence-based decision making.

last updated 37 week of 2026