Junior Data Scientist
Role Overview
The Trust is recruiting a Junior Data Scientist for its expanding Data Science team.
The role supports organisational, operational, and clinical objectives through data science insight and solutions.
The post holder works under the guidance of senior analysts and data scientists.
The role supports both Royal Surrey County Hospital and Ashford and St Peters Hospital.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Trust is recruiting a Junior Data Scientist for its expanding Data Science team.
The role supports organisational, operational, and clinical objectives through data science insight and solutions.
The post holder works under the guidance of senior analysts and data scientists.
The role supports both Royal Surrey County Hospital and Ashford and St Peters Hospital.
Required background and approach
- A strong programming foundation in Python or R and a good understanding of statistical methods and machine learning concepts are required.
- Experience with data science libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, or similar is requested.
- The candidate should be inquisitive, methodical, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to experiment and iterate.
- Clear communication of technical concepts to varied stakeholders is important.
Advantageous skills
- Experience with SQL and cloud or distributed data environments is advantageous.
- Familiarity with Git, Docker, or machine learning frameworks is advantageous.
Key responsibilities
- Build, test, and support deployment of machine learning models using large and complex datasets.
- Extract, prepare, validate, clean, and analyse data from clinical and corporate systems.
- Perform data exploration, feature engineering, model evaluation, and predictive or statistical modelling.
- Develop automated data pipelines, reproducible workflows, and visualisations.
- Translate analytical findings into useful insights for clinical and corporate teams.
- Support data quality, machine learning projects, and adoption of modern analytical methods.
About Royal Surrey
Royal Surrey is an acute and community Trust providing joined-up care and regional specialist cancer care.
The Trust reports an overall Outstanding rating from the Care Quality Commission.
The Trust describes itself as collaborative and committed to colleague development and wellbeing.
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