Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Business Analyst (Band 7)

The closing date is 23 November 2025

Job summary

Passionate about how digital can transform healthcare, for our patients and colleagues? Are you excited by identifying and implementing new digital technologies? We have an exciting opportunity for a Digital Senior Business Analyst to join the Digital Workstream as part of the Securing the Future (StF) Program at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

We have an ambitious Digital Strategy that underpins the digital solutions used to support the opening of our new hospital. You will utilise your previous Digital Business Analyst experience to deliver critical new and innovative digital systems as part of the StF programme, to ensure the alignment of resources and coordination of activities and requirements required are aligned with project timescales and requirements.

Main duties of the job

Support the Enterprise Solutions Architect and Digital Workstream Project Manager by analysing problems and opportunities in our Clinical and non-clinical practices to produce solutions and improvements. Specifically:

About us

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

  • Cycle to Work
  • Travel Scheme
  • Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
  • Onsite Nursery
  • Buying and Selling Annual Leave
  • Car Leasing
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Employee Health and Wellbeing
  • Extensive Reward Scheme
  • Counselling Service
  • Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
  • Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

Our values:

We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

  • Committed to Quality of Care
  • Compassion
  • Working together for patients
  • Improving Lives
  • Everyone Counts
  • Respect and Dignity

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.

Details

Date posted

03 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

423-7456898

Job locations

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD


Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details of this post please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details of this post please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Post Graduate level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant environment
  • Business Analysis Certification
  • Business change experience
  • Significant experience of transformation within Health and Social Care

Desirable

  • PRINCE 2
  • significant proven experience of digital transformation within Health
  • LEAN methodology qualification

Experience

Essential

  • .Experience of delivering successful change initiatives - particularly healthcare environments
  • .Experience of using established consulting activities and techniques including facilitating stakeholder groups for eliciting stakeholder requirements.
  • .Evidence of transformational leadership
  • .Experience of developing, training and engaging staff in digital or other areas / projects
  • .Previous experience of supporting a programme of change management
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Post Graduate level qualification or equivalent experience in a relevant environment
  • Business Analysis Certification
  • Business change experience
  • Significant experience of transformation within Health and Social Care

Desirable

  • PRINCE 2
  • significant proven experience of digital transformation within Health
  • LEAN methodology qualification

Experience

Essential

  • .Experience of delivering successful change initiatives - particularly healthcare environments
  • .Experience of using established consulting activities and techniques including facilitating stakeholder groups for eliciting stakeholder requirements.
  • .Evidence of transformational leadership
  • .Experience of developing, training and engaging staff in digital or other areas / projects
  • .Previous experience of supporting a programme of change management

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD


Employer's website

https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD


Employer's website

https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Digital Lead – Securing the Future

Gordon Guy

gordon.guy@nhs.net

0153501535

Details

Date posted

03 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

423-7456898

Job locations

Airedale General Hospital

Steeton

BD20 6TD


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