Health Economist

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

The post holder would also be expected to contribute to generating project costings and quotes, contribute to grant funding bids e.g. NIHR i4i PDA, RfPB, represent CHEATA at client meetings as part of overall CHEATA business development support as well as presentation/attendance at workshops, conferences etc.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• First degree or equivalent in relevant discipline
• Evidence of continuing education, particularly in health economics and/or health technology assessment
• Evidence of specialist health economic training and qualifications

Desirable criteria

• Higher degree (PhD) or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of having undertaken significant health economic modelling such as formal decision-analytic models (including but not limited to Markov and decision tree analyses for cost utility, cost consequence, cost effectiveness and cost benefit modelling) as well as simpler budget impact assessment or other cost analysis models
• Evidence of having undertaken HTA activities

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of having undertaken medical device specific health economics

Communication & Relationship Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent communications skills, written and oral
• Ability to present complex data

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of report generation

Analytical & Judgement Skills

Essential criteria

• Critically analyse complex data sets

Other Requirements Specific to Role

Essential criteria

• The primary function of CHEATA is to support adoption of medical technology into the NHS. It is therefore essential that the successful candidate has a good understanding of the wider medical technology agenda in the NHS

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

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