Job summary
The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for determining and implementing future requirements through the analysis and review of systems and processes, leading detailed design phases for complex projects; identifying where improvements and efficiencies can be gained and driving forward the requirements through to business case recommendation, inline with strategic objectives and the approved Group Informatics portfolio of work.The post-holder will lead a number of Business Analysts that provide an efficient, effective, high-quality, professional and co-ordinated service in line with strategic objectives and the approved Group Informatics Portfolio of work.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for delivering the review of systems and processes to guide technical and business strategy in support of Trust-wide business requirements
Developing requirements across a broad spectrum of specialties through the identification and evaluation of a range of options and supporting the delivery of business cases whilst taking into account scope, budget, timescales, benefits, risk and quality in support of the business need in cases that may have not previously undertaken
Development and application of robust approaches to Business Analysis techniques to achieve successful outcomes. These may include requirements gathering, designing operating models, technical solutions design, financial modelling, process re-engineering, market research, requirements gathering and specification development;
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
- Prince 2 Foundation
- Master's level qualification or equivalent level of experience within Informatics
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Highly developed experience in gathering and documenting requirements across a broad spectrum of specialties through the identification and evaluation of a range of options and supporting business cases whilst taking into account scope, budget, timescales, benefits, risk and quality in support of the business need
- Highly developed experience of operating in a matrix management structure
- Highly developed experience in the development of business cases
- Highly developed experience in applying budgeting, benefits tracking and demand management principles to projects in the development of business cases
- Highly developed verbal, presentation and written communication skills
- Highly developed experience in the application and appreciation of project finances, risk and issue and dependency management within projects.
- Highly developed knowledge of Business Modelling and Analysis
- Full technical understanding of the application of IT
Desirable
- Highly developed experience gathering and documenting. requirements across a broad spectrum of specialties through the identification and evaluation of a range of options and supporting business cases whilst taking into account scope, budget, timescales, benefits, risk and quality in support of the business need in a health and/or social care environment
- Senior management experience.
- An understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Ability to influence customers to adopt the most appropriate approach to achieve their needs
Training
Essential
- vidence of Continued Professional Development, including specialist training in areas such as: - Business Case development and appraisal - Risk Management - Programme and Project Delivery methodologies (Including Prince 2) - MS Project Planning - Change Management and Controls
Attributes
Essential
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or reassurance skills are required
- Ability to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group
- Ability to make judgements on multi-stranded or complex IM&T problems which may have no precedent or where there are conflicting opinions
- Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Highly developed and structured approach to analysing, interpreting and advising on complex data or information with the ability to critically analyse and interpret to achieve desired strategic outcomes
- Ability to manage a range of activities to formulate plans that have effect across multiple disciplines
- A highly developed understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness.
- A highly developed ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to achieve change/improvement
- Articulate and clear in communications to mixed audiences in writing, through presentations and one to one
- Ability to manage, motivate and develop Business Analysis and project staff in a matrix environment
- Demonstrates a collaborative approach and good team working
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure
- Excellent business, and financial management skills
- Calm and adaptable in the face of ambiguity and in a fast-paced, quick-changing environment
- Demonstrates problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Highly developed planning and organisational skills
- Effective listener and orientated to problem solving
- Highly developed interpersonal skills; articulate, creative, selfaware, controlled and confident
- Strong delivery focus and determination, with the ability to drive progress forward and a passion for results and achieving goals
Desirable
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness within the healthcare environment
- Good facilitation skills
- Personal accountability with enthusiasm to take ownership and the ability to work comfortably without direct supervision
Other Requirments
Essential
- Ability to undertake shift working including out of hours, weekend and Public Holidays
Desirable
- Ability to travel across sites
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
- Prince 2 Foundation
- Master's level qualification or equivalent level of experience within Informatics
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Highly developed experience in gathering and documenting requirements across a broad spectrum of specialties through the identification and evaluation of a range of options and supporting business cases whilst taking into account scope, budget, timescales, benefits, risk and quality in support of the business need
- Highly developed experience of operating in a matrix management structure
- Highly developed experience in the development of business cases
- Highly developed experience in applying budgeting, benefits tracking and demand management principles to projects in the development of business cases
- Highly developed verbal, presentation and written communication skills
- Highly developed experience in the application and appreciation of project finances, risk and issue and dependency management within projects.
- Highly developed knowledge of Business Modelling and Analysis
- Full technical understanding of the application of IT
Desirable
- Highly developed experience gathering and documenting. requirements across a broad spectrum of specialties through the identification and evaluation of a range of options and supporting business cases whilst taking into account scope, budget, timescales, benefits, risk and quality in support of the business need in a health and/or social care environment
- Senior management experience.
- An understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Ability to influence customers to adopt the most appropriate approach to achieve their needs
Training
Essential
- vidence of Continued Professional Development, including specialist training in areas such as: - Business Case development and appraisal - Risk Management - Programme and Project Delivery methodologies (Including Prince 2) - MS Project Planning - Change Management and Controls
Attributes
Essential
- Ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiation, training, empathic or reassurance skills are required
- Ability to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to a large group
- Ability to make judgements on multi-stranded or complex IM&T problems which may have no precedent or where there are conflicting opinions
- Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Highly developed and structured approach to analysing, interpreting and advising on complex data or information with the ability to critically analyse and interpret to achieve desired strategic outcomes
- Ability to manage a range of activities to formulate plans that have effect across multiple disciplines
- A highly developed understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness.
- A highly developed ability to negotiate and influence others in a positive manner with the confidence to deal with different priorities and differing views in order to achieve change/improvement
- Articulate and clear in communications to mixed audiences in writing, through presentations and one to one
- Ability to manage, motivate and develop Business Analysis and project staff in a matrix environment
- Demonstrates a collaborative approach and good team working
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently under pressure
- Excellent business, and financial management skills
- Calm and adaptable in the face of ambiguity and in a fast-paced, quick-changing environment
- Demonstrates problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Highly developed planning and organisational skills
- Effective listener and orientated to problem solving
- Highly developed interpersonal skills; articulate, creative, selfaware, controlled and confident
- Strong delivery focus and determination, with the ability to drive progress forward and a passion for results and achieving goals
Desirable
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- A solid understanding of the application of information technology and how it can be used to achieve organisational effectiveness within the healthcare environment
- Good facilitation skills
- Personal accountability with enthusiasm to take ownership and the ability to work comfortably without direct supervision
Other Requirments
Essential
- Ability to undertake shift working including out of hours, weekend and Public Holidays
Desirable
- Ability to travel across sites
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
