AS SO CI A T E
HEA LT H CA RE A NA L YTIC S
Social Finance
About Us
Social Finance is a not for profit organisation working in partnership with government,
the social sector and the financial community to enable sustainable social impact at
scale. We are the leading social investment intermediary and a centre of innovation in
addressing social issues in the UK and beyond. With teams working with Central
Government departments, Local Authorities and Clinical Commissioning Groups, Global
Development Organisations, Charities, Social Enterprises, Foundations and Investors,
and with experts in their fields, Social Finance brings to bear a deep understanding of a
range of complex social issues to the proposals it develops - in areas like financial
inclusion, affordable housing, recidivism, homelessness, domestic abuse, improving
care for those with long-term health conditions and children in or at risk of entering
care. Its work in the development arena has focused on neglected tropical diseases,
HIV, education and employment.
Since we started in 2007, Social Finance has mobilised over £52 million of social
investment and designed a series of programmes to tackle social challenges. These
include support for 2,000 short sentence offenders released from Peterborough Prison,
380 children on the edge of care in Essex, 2,500 young people at risk of becoming
NEET, 600 homeless youth and 800 rough sleepers in London. We are also alleviating
fuel poverty for over 2,300 families in Sunderland, enabling 15,000 families to access
nursery places and free children’s services, and providing 7,500 affordable micro loans
in Wales.
About the Team
The Health and Care practice looks to develop and scale more effective approaches to
improving people’s health and wellbeing, particularly focusing on community based
and preventative approaches. We have developed significantly recently, and are
looking to grow our impact and scale further. Over the last year we have:
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Launched the Shared Lives Incubator to invest in rapidly growing Shared Lives
schemes – care provided to people from within the carer’s home.
Established the Reconnections Service to support 5,000 older people in
Worcestershire to overcome loneliness and isolation, to improve wellbeing and
reduce use of health and care services and replicate the model nationally.
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Developed a major new social investment fund in partnership with a major
health charity - which will be launched in October to invest in better services
for those affected by cancer and other long-term health conditions.
Pioneered investment in services which better integrate health and
employment support.
Helped a number of social enterprises to develop business plans for improving
scale and sustainability, such as Salford Health Matters (one of the UK’s leading
primary care practices), and commissioners to redesign their services, such as
Newcastle City Council’s learning disability service.
Our partners include Nesta, the Health Foundation, the Cabinet Office and Department
of Health, Big Society Capital, the Big Lottery Fund, Imperial Health Partners, the
Gulbenkian Foundation, the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, the John Ellerman Foundation
and Community Catalysts.
Our Goals and Values
We are focused on improving the impact of health and care services on people’s health
and overall wellbeing. We look for social impact first – our models are driven by social
and then financial returns – and are looking to develop approaches which both
practically benefit the immediate users of the service and have the potential to scale
and be replicated nationally.
More information can be found on our website www.socialfinance.org.uk.
About the Job
We are looking for someone with proven healthcare analytics experience to join our
growing team
Good analysis is central to all of our work: understanding challenges for patients, in
assessing opportunities and developing business models, and in monitoring and learning
from the services which we establish and invest in.
The Associate will play an important role across our health and care practice, supporting
both our Fund management teams as they develop and assess potential investments, our
work advising providers and commissioners and our support to the delivery of new
services. We expect that they will also play an advisory role on international
development projects with a health focus.
The Associate will:
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Lead work to understand the health and care needs of populations and service
use, including using standard sources of information such as Hospital Episode
Statistics and considering how to develop a more in-depth understanding of
needs and opportunities, such as through designing bespoke analysis of local
data;
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Lead cost-benefit analysis and research on the social impact and value for money
of potential new services/interventions, including reviews of evidence and
effectiveness;
Work collaboratively with other members of the team to help design new service
solutions, including supporting service innovation, adaptation and scaling and
the development of new pathways of care.
Play a leading role building financial models and business plans which form the
basis of investment decisions and contracts.
Develop monitoring systems to assess the social and financial impact of new
services which we invest in or help manage.
Support evaluation and learning from projects, including through commissioning
external independent evaluations of services, internal reviews and publishing
findings from our work – we are committed to having impact through working
transparently and sharing our learning with others.
Contribute to the development of Social Finance’s analytical capacity more
widely, including engaging with Social Finance Digital Labs – a major new
initiative to bring new digital capabilities to the public and social sectors by
developing analytics and data models that improve decision-making and in turn
solve social challenges.
Skills and Experience
This is an important role at the cross-section of leading edge analysis and the practical
development of innovation service development. We are looking for someone who can
work as part of an entrepreneurial team and support the continued growth of our
analytical work as a whole as well as play a central role on specific projects. You will
have an interest in social change and in building solutions to the challenges of improving
health and wellbeing.
We expect that you will bring the following values, skills and experience:
• Problem solving: You will be able to grasp a situation, structure the challenge and
enjoy wrestling with a problem and generating insight.
• Quantitative analysis: You will have excellent quantitative skills; the manipulation
of data-sets and the ability to undertake high-level statistical analysis - good excel
skills will be essential.
• Financial analysis: You will have experience of financial analysis and/or costbenefit analysis,
• Understanding research and impact e: You will be able to review research studies
and local practice, and also be able to help make judgements about the best ways to
develop services even with incomplete evidence.
• Health and Care: Ideally you would have experience of the health and care sectors
and as a minimum would be able to quickly understand key elements of health
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economics and analysis including the ability to support NHS business-case
development and long-term health impact modelling.
• Written and verbal communications: You are a strong communicator, able to
present your ideas well to a variety of colleagues and clients, and author clear and
succinct documents.
• Team-working: You will work effectively alongside colleagues and are enthused by
the prospect of common ambition and shared success.
• Continuous learning: You will have a desire to help continuously improve the
analytically approaches that we use and look for new applications for our knowledge
and experience.
Compensation
Competitive salary, commensurate with experience and sector.
Application
Interested candidates should send a CV and covering letter detailing their interest in the
role and Social Finance highlighting relevant experience to:
associatehealthandcareteam@socialfinance.org.uk
As part of this application non EU candidates must provide evidence of the right to work
in the UK.
Candidates who do not attach a cover letter or evidence of the right to work (if
applicable) will not be considered for this role.
Closing date for applications:
3rd October 2015