Freelance Data Analyst
1-2days/week
Flexible work routines – much of the work could be evenings, weekends
Do you have
Strong mathematical and statistical analysis skills
Analyst
Care City is fortunate to have built a set of local partnerships with health and care organisations in Barking & Dagenham, creating together the Care City Cohort, a shared dataset across all settings of health and care for local residents. The data connects reliably to households, and thanks to the strong data capability of London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, includes some other information (e.g.benefits data), which makes it superb for understanding some of the social determinants of health.
Numerous PHDs are active in the dataset, and Care City itself is actively maintaining and analysing the dataset. This analysis is growing, and we are looking for some freelance analytical capacity to help us.
What we need:
- Strong mathematical and statistical analysis skills and experience required. Experience in R preferred.
- Working on a descriptive analysis (rather than lots of modelling/regressions, etc)
- Producing a statistical report rather than a dashboard or anything requiring programming skills
- 1-2days/week (but flexible work routines – much of the work could be evenings, weekends, etc)
- Starting asap
- For about 2 months
What we offer
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Competitive day rate based on experience and how quickly the right person can start
Interested?
contact our CEO, John Craig
Meet the team
Jenny has been with Care City since April 2015, working with stakeholders to develop the strategy and programme of work for the organisation, and securing grants to fund our activities.
Jenny also works as an Associate Professor at UCL and at UCLPartners, our local Academic Health Science Partnership, where she supports partners to deliver integrated care, with a particular focus on frailty, services for older people and support for carers. Jenny has a wide experience of healthcare in different contexts – as a researcher, a hospital manager and as a consultant at McKinsey.
She holds a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is currently completing a PhD at University College London.
Jenny created the linked database as part of a research programme, securing leadership support, curating the database and conducting quantitative research using econometric techniques, alongside qualitative research to validate findings. She has experience in qualitative and quantitative methods and has conducted extensive interview work. Jenny has strong links with senior leaders across the system, locally and nationally and a track record of successful delivery of programmes of local relevance and national significance. Jenny has extensive experience of health service policy, delivery and research. Her current role spans Care City, UCLPartners, UCL (Health Economist) and BHR CCG.
What has the data shown so far?
Access to vaccines in Barking & Dagenham – In light of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, we have used the dataset to identify some lessons in the inequalities to accessing the flu vaccine and how this can support the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Do Care Homes have One GP or Many? – We looked at care home residents in the borough and which GP surgeries care for them. In particular, we wanted to understand whether multiple GP surgeries are working in the same care home.
Learn more
Journal Article: Assessing service use and associated expenditure across a range of care settings in one local authority in London. “Understanding health and care expenditure by setting – who matters to whom?” in SAGE Publishing, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy.
Authors: Jenny Shand,PhD Researcher, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, Stephen Morris, RAND Professor of Health Services Research, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge and Manuel Gomes, Associate Professor in Health Economics, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London
Presentation: A matched analysis of the impact having a carer has on an individual’s health and social care utilisation across five settings of care for adult residents of Barking and Dagenham.
Author: Jenny Shand, UCLPartners and UCL
Author: Jenny Shand, UCLPartners and UCL
