Business Analyst - NHS
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What you'll do
- Turning raw information into insights.
- Reading specs, SOPs, audit logs, operational policies.
- Reviewing system outputs (reports, logs, data extracts).
- Identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities.
- Understanding patterns, trends, and anomalies.
- Using Excel, SQL basics, or dashboards to validate findings.
- Active listening
- Building trust
- Able to get clarification & validation
- Understanding how clinical systems store, share, and report data.
- Knowing where to pull logs, extracts, or workflow data.
- Understanding data fields and sources
What they're looking for
- In depth NHS process experience
- Data collection / manipulation and Processing
- Active Directory / Domain Migration Experience
- NHS & Clinical Application Working Experience
- Application - Front / Back End design understanding
Summarised by NextRaise from the employer’s description, which follows in full below.
Full description from employer
Business Analyst - NHS IT Review
Our client a large consultancy engaged with digital transformation within the NHS require a Business Analyst with in depth NHS process experience.
Business Analyst
Data collection / manipulation and Processing
Active Directory / Domain Migration Experience
NHS & Clinical Application Working Experience
Application - Front / Back End design understanding
- Analytical Skills
Turning raw information into insights.
- Reading specs, SOPs, audit logs, operational policies.
- Reviewing system outputs (reports, logs, data extracts).
- Identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities.
- Understanding patterns, trends, and anomalies.
- Using Excel, SQL basics, or dashboards to validate findings.
- Stakeholder Management Skills
- Active listening
- Building trust
- Able to get clarification & validation
- Technical & Tool-Based Skills
- Understanding how clinical systems store, share, and report data.
- Knowing where to pull logs, extracts, or workflow data.
- Understanding:
- data fields and sources
- relationships (e.g., patient episode → charting → reporting)
- downstream impacts (e.g., EVOLVE, Mediviewer, WinPath)
Documentation Tools
- Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint,
- Creating diagrams, matrices, and structured outputs.
- Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving
- Spotting missing data, conflicting processes, or ambiguous requirements.
- Root cause analysis - using methods like:
- 5 Whys
- Fishbone diagrams
- Process tracing
- Communication Skills
- Clear written communication
- Able to present findings
- Translating complexity into simple, decision‑ready insights
- Well-structured documentation:
- requirements packs
- data dictionaries
- process maps
- benefits logs
- risk/impact assessments
- Domain Knowledge
- Knowing NHS Trust processes, escalation paths, prescribing, charting, observations.
- Helps you ask the right questions (this is essential to the role, candidates must have in depth NHS process experience.
Inside of IR35 regulations
Hybrid with a good percentage remote.
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