Senior Health Information Scientist

Senior Health Information Scientist (Ref: 250147)

Part-time: 28.8 hours per week (0.8 WTE).

12-month fixed-term contract / secondment.

Band 7 (£52,845 - £61,466).

Edinburgh/Glasgow – hybrid working will apply for foreseeable future.

We are seeking a motivated individual to join the Healthcare Improvement Scotland Right Decision Service (RDS) team, with extensive experience and expertise in evidence searching and summarising. You will play a key role in Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s evidence and evaluation work programme commissioned by the Scottish Government to underpin the implementation of GP walk‑in services and related new models of care.

Responsibilities

• Source evidence from international research, grey literature reports and lived experience reports from clinicians and patients to help answer critical questions arising throughout the programme about effectiveness, cost‑effectiveness and implementation approach for healthcare walk‑in services.
• Support, advise and train other research and information colleagues in evidence search and summarising skills.
• Summarise this evidence clearly and concisely for busy decision‑makers at Scottish Government policy level and for clinicians and service managers in the pilot sites, and for the improvement and research teams in HIS and PHS.
• Provide evidence to inform and shape evaluation and monitoring methodology, e.g. by defining relationships between activities and outcomes at different levels of impact.
• Package the evidence into decision‑ready, actionable formats – including engaging, user‑centred digital tools – to support decisions and actions when and where they are needed.
• Advise on and support knowledge mobilisation approaches to facilitate translation of evidence from research, lived experience and evaluation into practice and policy both within this work programme and in related service renewal initiatives.

Qualifications

You will hold a Postgraduate Masters qualification in a library, information or knowledge management‑related discipline, or demonstrate an equivalent of experience. You will have experience and expertise in methodology for sourcing and summarising evidence, communicating and analysing complex information to practice and policy stakeholders, creative problem‑solving, knowledge mobilisation and digital design and delivery of evidence in actionable formats.