Data scientist (Data Wrangler)

Are you passionate about using data science to improve healthcare? Join NHS England’s data science teams and play a key role in tackling complex challenges, delivering high-quality insights, and building tools that support better decisions across the NHS.

We value modern ways of working, including transparency, reproducibility, agile delivery, and open-source tools. As a Band 7 Data scientist (Data Wrangler), you’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, developing advanced data science methods, building data pipelines, and producing impactful analytical products.

If you want to make a real difference through innovative analytics and progress your career in a supportive, collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you.

When applying, please demonstrate your ability in these competency areas: Analytics for Impact, Professional Delivery & Innovation, Engineering, and Leadership & Collaboration.

Duties of a Band 7 Data scientist (Data Wrangler) include:

• Development and maintenance of data science products
• Identification and development of data science applications across policy and operational challenges
• Research and horizon scanning for data science in health and care, including active relationships with academia and industry.
• Provide support to NHS England and wider health and care sector to enable good use of data science.
• Champion adoption of modern ways of working to deliver analytical products (such as transparency, reproducibility, adoption of open-source tools, agile project management)
• Communicate analytical insight in an engaging and impactful way
• Working in multi-disciplinary teams across NHSE to inject data science expertise into delivery of data products.
• Invest in professional development of self and wider team in line with the Data Science Competency Framework for Health and Care professionals.

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department. 

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rupert Chaplin Job title: Data Science Assistant Director Email address: [email protected]