Principal PH Intelligence Analyst


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£62,706 to £76,131 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, E16 2QU
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	27 Oct 2026
Closing date:	8 Nov 2026

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Summary

The core purpose of the job is to lead the Public Health Intelligence service to produce actionable insight and intelligence that will inform decision making to improve population health and reduce inequity. The post holder will ensure that population health intelligence actively shapes strategy, commissioning, and service transformation across Newham and North East London while reflecting local, regional and national priorities. The post holder will lead specific projects that provide health intelligence to enable a full understanding of health and care needs in the area, address health inequalities, determine priorities for action and support commissioning decisions. They will actively disseminate findings from a wide range of analyses. The post holder will lead on the design, methods, production and quality assurance of the intelligence function and embed a continuous quality improvement approach. The role requires expert advice on the application of novel and innovative data science techniques to generating actionable insight from data including the development of more complex epidemiological analyses using advanced statistical techniques e.g. risk stratification, modelling, regression, segmentation, and forecasting. Part of this role is to raise standards in the use and understanding of population health and champion the use of intelligence to help improve the quality of decision making. As a part of this, the post holder will improve access to and training for available tools and support the development of analytical confidence and capability across the wider workforce, including the use and interpretation of statistical and epidemiological information. They will be able to guide and advise others in their decisionmaking processes based on sound public health knowledge and evidence. The post holder will ensure that the provision of high quality and often complex information from a range of sources is appropriately analysed and interpreted for use at operational and strategic levels to support and inform decision making. They provide expert statistical and epidemiological advice to the organisation and other strategic partnerships, including the Integrated Care System. The post holder will undertake research to support public health intelligence objectives. The post holder will report to the Public Health Consultant Lead for Public Health Intelligence and manage a team of Public Health Analysts.

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