Health Economist (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds & London)
Company Description
Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.
Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.
We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.
Job purpose
Are you passionate about shaping the future of healthcare through evidence-based insights? Join Genomics England’s Health Economics team as a Health Economist, where you’ll play a pivotal role in developing economic models that assess the costs and benefits of groundbreaking genomic medicine.
As a Health Economist, your work will directly influence strategic decision-making and demonstrate the value of our healthcare and research initiatives across the NHS, industry, and broader economy. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge advancements in precision healthcare while driving real-world impact in policy, investment, and patient outcomes.
Job Description
- Build, develop and manage detailed economic models based on theories of change to explain and understand GELs benefit across healthcare, the public sector and the wider economy. Models will be largely built in Excel (including VBA-powered) with the potential use of R or Python.
- Produce cost/benefit analysis for fiscal events and HM Treasury spending reviews working closely with partners across government and the NHS.
- Use national health economic data and Genomics England (GEL) data to model and measure the macro-economic impact of the introduction of genomic medicine into the NHS.
- Research and critically appraise medical and economic literature to source suitable model inputs
- Lead presentation of outputs to senior internal and external stakeholders
- Support business development and funding application activities through provision of analysis/data
- Provide data-driven guidance and recommendations on questions posed by the executive leadership team
- Know and understand the meaning behind our virtues and leadership behaviours and embody them in all aspects of your role.
Qualifications
We are open to either a Graduate with a relevant degree (in a subject with a strong quantitative component such as science, maths, economics) or experience gained in:
- Building economic models
- Quantitative experience, such as statistical analysis
- Literature reviews/researching inputs for models
Desirable skills:
- Experience with building health economic models and conducting data analysis specifically within the healthcare field
- Experience with key health economic principles
- Conducting public sector economic modelling with knowledge of green book
- Working with statistical languages such as R or python or VBA
Additional Information
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 6th August at 23:59
Salary from: £49,000
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
- Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
- Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
- Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), and a Give As You Earn scheme.
- Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
- Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
- Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.
Equal opportunities and our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace
Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity.
We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes. Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.
Blended working model
Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility that hybrid working can bring. We expect most people to come into the office a minimum of 2 times each month. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that people will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require full time on site attendance e.g., lab teams, reception team.
Our teams and squads have, and will continue to reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are: Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.
Onboarding background checks
As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.
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For more information about the organisation please view our Genomics England Insights and Welcome Pack.
