Lead Health Economist

The Lead Health Economist is a senior technical and professional leadership role within the Strategic Value Unit, working across the integrated Strategic Value Unit and Population Health Unit function. The postholder will lead the health economics discipline, ensuring that economic principles and methods support strategic commissioning, population health management, evaluation and effective stewardship of ICB resources., The postholder will lead complex health economic work from definition of the decision problem through evidence appraisal, modelling, analysis of uncertainty, interpretation and translation into recommendations. They will determine where health economic analysis adds value, select proportionate methods and provide technical assurance for high-impact economic analyses. The role will:

• provide professional leadership for health economics across the integrated Strategic Value Unit and Population Health Unit function;
• lead complex health economic programmes supporting strategic planning, commissioning, transformation and evaluation;
• develop and apply economic evaluation, decision modelling, budget impact and prioritisation methods where these strengthen decision-making;
• make explicit the outcomes, costs, equity, affordability, trade-offs and opportunity costs associated with alternative uses of resources;
• establish standards for evidence appraisal, modelling, documentation, peer review, uncertainty analysis and technical assurance;
• translate complex economic evidence into clear, actionable recommendations for decision-makers; and
• build organisational health economics capability through line management, coaching, technical supervision and shared methods and resources.
  
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