Senior Biostatistician

Description

Introduction

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as a(an) Senior Biostatistician? At HCA Healthcare, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

You contribute to our success. Every role has an impact on our patients’ lives and you have the opportunity to make a difference. We are looking for a dedicated Senior Biostatistician like you to be a part of our team.

Job Summary and Qualifications

At HCA Healthcare, we are driven by a single mission: Above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life. That's more than just a privilege. At HCA Healthcare, it is our calling. Since our founding more than 50 years ago, we have followed a vision of healthcare the way it should be: patient-centered, constantly evolving and constantly improving, practiced with integrity and compassion. We all have a role in making this vision a reality. Together, we can improve more lives in more ways.

The Senior Biostatistician will support Clinical Services Group (CSG) leadership, and other HCA Healthcare Service Lines, by providing statistical analytics and reporting to identify opportunities and inform ongoing clinical or operational initiatives. Responsibilities include technical requirements documentation, data extraction, data modeling, statistical analysis and metric development. The Biostatistician must be able to take direction for tactically appropriate data and information models, identify opportunities and strategies in analyzing data, possess advanced analytical skills, intermediate SQL query skills, have excellent communication skills [both written and verbal], have relationship building skills, portray a professional presence, and possess a proven track record of delivering high quality analytics results. The Biostatistician must be able to take direction, work independently, and work in a small group collaboratively to deliver high level results within specified time frames.

Key Competencies and Responsibilities:

Data & Reporting – 60%

•Functions as a data domain expert for multiple assigned clinical/operational service lines.

•Writes intermediate to advanced SQL to data mine, extract and model data from multiple databases (Teradata, GCP, SQL, etc.).

•Determines data quality or completeness; Effectively communicates gaps to clinical or ITG stakeholders.

•Efficiently and effectively aggregate and clean data from multiple sources to prepare data for manipulation, analysis, and visualizations.

•Develops actionable reports, report narratives and data visualizations that identify areas of opportunity and help drive clinical quality at scale. Primary department platforms are Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, and PowerBI.

•Deep understanding of internal datasets (clinical, financial, operational) and external datasets (CMS, various registries, etc.)

•Accurately interprets clinical stakeholder data needs and appropriately craft requirements and project plan to satisfy requests.

Statistical Analytics – 40%

•Leverages big data to build complex statistical models, programs and performs statistical testing. Primary statistical language is R.

•Appropriately risk adjust data when called for to account for potential variances in populations to enable a more robust analysis of clinical performance.

•Extract Identify patterns, variability and/or outliers from raw data.

•Interprets and presents results in a clear and meaningful way to executive level audiences.

•Prepares analysis plans and writes detailed specifications based on executive or clinical stakeholder requirements.

•Delivers rapid turnaround analytics requests in support of hospital, division or group operations.

•Collaborates with research teams to design studies, perform sample/size/power calculations and stratification/randomization of studies.

•Provides expert advice and consultation on clinical development program strategy and tactics. Plans statistical design for clinical trials, conducts statistical analysis and reporting of these analyses.

•Contributes to the development of abstracts and manuscripts.

Education and Experience:

•3-7 years relevant experience

•3+ years as a statistician

•Masters Degree e.g. MPH, MHA, MBA, MS, MA (Master Degree in Statistics or Biostatistics preferred)

•Excellent communication skills; ability to present to executive level audience

•Knowledgeable about various clinical service lines and data sources

•Detail-oriented and strong desire to find solutions to problems

•Ability to self-manage multiple tasks and prioritize work according to team and company goals

•Advanced capabilities in statistical programming software: R

•Advanced capabilities in reporting/BI Platforms: Required - Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint Preferred - PowerBI, Tableau

•Intermediate capabilities in SQL

HCA Healthcare (Corporate), based in Nashville, Tennessee, supports a variety of corporate roles from business operations to administrative positions. Like our colleagues in any HCA Healthcare hospital, our corporate campus employees enjoy unparalleled resources and opportunities to reach their potential as healthcare leaders and innovators. From market rate compensation to continuing education and career advancement opportunities, every person has a solid foundation for success. Nashville is also home to our Executive Development Program, where exceptional employees are groomed to take on CNO- and COO-level roles in our hospitals. This selective program focuses on ethics, leadership and the financial and clinical knowledge required of professionals at this level of the industry.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times.  In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Good people beget good people."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are a family 270,000 dedicated professionals! Our Talent Acquisition team is reviewing applications for our Senior Biostatistician opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your resume today to join our community of caring!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.