Health Information Scientist

Health Information Scientist (Ref: 247161) Permanent, 18 Hours per Week (0.5 WTE) Band 6 (£43,231 - £52,679) Edinburgh/Glasgow - Hybrid working will apply for the foreseeable future We are seeking to appoint a motivated individual with a focus on user-centred design to apply information and knowledge management skills to deliver a wide range of digital decision support tools within the Right Decision Service (RDS) platform – the national digital decision support service for Scotland’s health and social care. You will manage design and delivery of a growing suite of decision support tools, including guidelines, pathways and improvement tools in decision‑ready format, algorithmic risk stratification tools, patient reported outcome measures, multidisciplinary knowledge sharing tools and others. This involves sourcing and summarising evidence, defining and implementing information architecture, metadata and indexing functionality and schemas, publication workflow processes and templates, tailored alerting services, user interface design, usability testing. You will collaborate closely with health and social care professionals across Scotland and will provide promotion, training and support for maintenance, adoption and spread of these tools using knowledge mobilisation methods. You will be an excellent team worker with an ability to collaborate with colleagues in the RDS team, the wider Evidence and Digital Directorate, Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the wider health and social care system. The successful candidate will hold a Postgraduate Masters qualification in a library, information or knowledge management-related discipline or demonstrate an equivalent of experience. They will show commitment to, and experience of, user‑centred digital design and sound knowledge and skills in digital delivery of evidence in a way that supports decisions in frontline care as well as development of policy and guidance. The candidate will have skills in user research, stakeholder engagement and accessible design, and experience in construction of basic decision support rules and algorithms. They will have experience of successfully communicating and analysing complex information, and will show that they find creative solutions to complex problems. Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Evidence and Digital Directorate is a complex and wide-ranging directorate which develops and disseminates evidence‑based advice for NHS Scotland. Its outputs and activities include clinical guidelines, health technology assessment, evidence development, research, health economics, knowledge mobilisation and decision support for Healthcare Improvement Scotland and for external partners. To discuss this post, contact Dr Ann Wales, Programme Lead, Knowledge and Decision Support, View email address on click.appcast.io. Closing Date: Midnight on 23rd June 2026 #J-18808-Ljbffr