Data Scientist

Data Scientist - NHS – 6 Month Contract – Cardiff / Remote

VIQU have partnered with an NHS client who are seeking a Data Scientist to join the team on a contract basis. This role will play a key part in developing, enhancing, and delivering complex workforce demand and supply models that support strategic healthcare planning.

The successful Data Scientist will work across a range of high-profile modelling projects, helping to transform workforce forecasting through advanced analytics, simulation modelling, and evidence-based decision making.

Role 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.

Key Skills and Experience Required

• 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.

Role details:

• Job role: Data Scientist
• Job type: Contract
• Duration: 6 months
• Rate: £300 - £325 per day
• IR35 status: Inside IR35
• Location: Cardiff / Remote

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