Data Science Lead


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£66,582 to £77,368 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, NW1 5JD
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	11 Sept 2026
Closing date:	27 Sept 2026

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Summary

Followa data ethics framework ensuring compliance with AI fairness and transparency standardsandmaintainafirmunderstanding of the governance landscape in healthcare Apply understanding of NHS pathways, service interfaces, and operational pressures to ensure analysis reflects real-world context and supports evidence-based interventions. Working with stakeholders to understand the underlying business need and applying your knowledge and influencing skills to co-designappropriate projectplans including problem articulation, project scoping and design, communication,deploymentand evaluation. Asa proactive member of data science communities,youllcollaboratewithlocalacademic andnationwideNHS partners.Locally you willset technical standards and architectural direction within data science as our stack matures,andsupport other data scientists to develop and deploy advancedsolutions. If you'd enjoy the freedom to shape a growing data science capability, buildmodelsonarich linked datasetin a cloud native platform, and see your models genuinely change how care is planned and delivered, we'd love to hear from you. Please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for full duties and responsibilities. Closing date:27thSeptember2026 Task release:w/c12thOctober2026(approximate) Date of Interview:w/c26thOctober2026(approximate) Note: dates may change if the volume of applications is high.

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