Business Analyst

Job summary

Please be advised we are recruiting for 4 x Permanent posts and 1 x Fixed Term post for 18 months.

NHSBT are looking for 5 experienced BAs to join the growing Design Team, working on important strategic and smaller projects, and product centre team backlogs delivering targeted business & technical change.

The roles involve multiple simultaneous projects, dedicated focus for larger projects, supporting ongoing product development, or a combination of these. We support diverse products, that help us deliver what we do including specialist biosciences to patient, donor and staff facing services. Our portfolio includes everything from bespoke business & technology changes to whole service design and change programmes.

The post requires considerable autonomy and initiative, as most project teams are remote and virtual, so this post suits those who are confident in their abilities, happy to ask for guidance when necessary and relish the opportunity to take ownership of their deliverables.

As a Business Analyst youll produce, contribute to, and maintain the following artefacts (alongside others) as appropriate:

• Process Maps
• Business Requirements Specifications (including as-is/to-be/gap analysis & NFRs)
• Functional Specifications
• Requirements Traceability Matrices and backlogs
• User stories
• Business Change Plans
• Business Solution Assessments

Main duties of the job

We have 4 permanent vacancies: 1 supporting our Central Design Team, and 1 in each of our Clinical Services, Donor Experience, and Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Product Centres. We also have 1 Fixed Term post supporting the Blood Technology Modernisation Program. In this role:

• You will provide a business analysis service to a variety of projects covering business and process change, solutions procurement, development and implementation
• You will be help determine which BA artifacts and deliverables will be appropriate to each project, and be responsible for delivering these to NHSBT standards
• You will work closely with a range of people potentially including Service Designers, User Researchers, Solution Architects, Product Owners, Delivery Managers, Project Managers, Solution Architects, SMEs and key business stakeholders to ensure that business needs are identified and delivered solutions meet these needs
• You will build and maintain stakeholder relationships with customers across the business and third parties You will be responsible for managing your own workload and diary, including making priority calls and renegotiating deadlines within your own workspace. Management support will be available if required.
• Limited national travel, irregular hours and some overnight stays are necessary on an occasional basis in accordance with project needs, with prior notice.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.

By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.