Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A. Professional leadership and strategy

·        Lead the health economics discipline across the integrated Strategic Value Unit and Population Health Unit, providing authoritative professional advice and setting its direction.

·        Work with the Head of Evaluation and other professional leads to align the work programme and health economics capability with ICB priorities.

·        Identify where health economics can materially improve decisions and advocate proportionate approaches based on the question, evidence, uncertainty and intended use.

B. Economic evaluation and decision modelling

·        Lead complex economic evaluations and decision models supporting commissioning, transformation and resource allocation.

·        Apply methods such as cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-consequence, cost-benefit, budget impact, return on investment, multi-criteria decision analysis and scenario modelling where appropriate.

·        Develop, adapt and interpret decision models suited to the decision context, available evidence and implementation maturity.

·        Assess assumptions, uncertainty and sensitivity, ensuring limitations are transparent and conclusions proportionate to the evidence.

C. Strategic value, prioritisation and resource allocation

·        Apply health economic reasoning across the strategic commissioning cycle, including prioritisation, option appraisal, business cases, investment, redesign and disinvestment.

·        Assess marginal benefits, opportunity costs, affordability and trade-offs between alternative uses of ICB resources.

·        Work with commissioning, finance and clinical colleagues to assess the resource and outcome implications of service configurations and commissioning options.

·        Support value-based approaches that link resource use to outcomes, equity and population benefit.

D. Evidence, data and technical assurance

·        Lead appraisal and synthesis of economic and related evidence, including published literature, national guidance and routine health and care data.

·        Ensure assumptions, parameters and data sources are transparent, defensible and documented.

·        Provide senior technical assurance of high-impact analyses and models through proportionate peer review, independent challenge and sensitivity analysis.

·        Promote reproducible, transparent and responsible analytical practice and shared modelling resources.

E. Multidisciplinary evaluation and decision intelligence

·        Lead the health economic components of multidisciplinary evaluations of pathways, programmes and service changes.

·        Integrate economic evidence with outcomes, activity, utilisation, equity, implementation and qualitative evidence.

·        Assess whether interventions deliver value and inform decisions about continuation, scaling, redesign or disinvestment.

·        Consider distributional effects and health inequalities alongside overall population benefit where relevant.

F. Insight, influence and implementation

·        Work with decision-makers to define economic questions and translate findings into clear recommendations for strategy, commissioning and delivery.

·        Communicate costs, outcomes, uncertainty, affordability and opportunity cost clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

·        Produce or assure economic content for business cases, option appraisals, committee papers, investment proposals and evaluation reports.

·        Provide constructive challenge where economic assumptions, claims of value or interpretations are unsupported or misleading.

G. Team and portfolio leadership

·        Line manage and professionally support the health economics team, including objectives, appraisal, performance, development and wellbeing.

·        Provide technical supervision, coaching and professional development across the analytical function, fostering curiosity, constructive challenge, inclusion and continuous learning.

·        Lead a portfolio of complex work, balancing priorities, risks, dependencies, resources and timescales.

·        Contribute to workforce planning, recruitment and development of health economics and wider quantitative analytical capability.