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The NHSCFA is the national body responsible for all matters relating to the prevention, detection and investigation of economic crime across the NHS. Further information about our work and annual plan for delivering this is available on our website.
Our new team are embarking on a piece of work to monitor data to identify and respond to patterns indicative of potential fraud. This will support our current work that reduces the likelihood of fraud occurring. We will bring in data science capabilities to be deployed in counter fraud activity and work closely with partners across health and government to further maximise the preventative impact of proactive counter fraud analysis. We will combine this with our range of counter fraud and domain expertise to maximise our impact using your knowledge, experience, and passion for your chosen field. At the core will be the development and use of appropriate analytical techniques that include advanced analytics and machine learning to tackle some of the highest areas of fraud risk to the NHS and ultimately protect public funds for patient care.
This is a Fixed Term contract until 31st March 2026.
The Senior Proactive Counter Fraud Response Officer will be a multi-disciplined practitioner with expertise in all aspects of fraud prevention, disruption, intelligence and investigative practice. The role will work within the NHSCFA Project Athena Response Team, providing a comprehensive prevention, intelligence and investigative function, delivering interventions tasked to them via the Proactive Counter Fraud Lead and/or the Response Team Manager. The role will focus on the timely response to fraud by driving counter fraud interventions.
The post holder will be required to have a NPPV2/3.
We have offices based in Coventry, Newcastle and London and offer flexible, hybrid, office and home-based working. In addition to the advertised salary, working in the London area will attract High-Cost Area Supplement where appropriate. The NHSCFA values and respects the diversity of its employees and aims to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Driving counter fraud initiatives tasked by the Proactive Counter Fraud Lead and Response Team Manager or from NHSCFA's tasking process.
- Apply the Fraud Investigation Model and determine all possible avenues for counter fraud initiatives.
- Work alongside the data science arm of the program of work, examining anomalies identified and communicating back actionable insight generated which will improve the statistical detection modelling approach.
- Work collaboratively in the development of pattern detection in relation to emerging fraud within data.
- Sharing knowledge of fraud within the NHS with Data Science and Analytical professionals for large scale modelling and identification of pattern in data indicative of fraud.
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This advert closes on Monday 10 Mar 2025.
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