Business Analyst
Job summary
We areseekinga motivated and detail-oriented Business Analyst to join our Digital and Information Services team at Sherwood Forest Hospitaltosupport with the delivery of our new Electronic Patient Record system. This pivotal role will support the Trust's journey towards implementing a fully integrated EPR system, ensuring that patient information isconsolidatedinto a single, Trust-wide record.
The successful candidate will play a key part in shaping digital transformation, improving clinical workflows, and enhancing patient care across the organisation.
Although hybrid working is available across the team, this role will be central to the EPR programme and will therefore require a minimum on-site presence of three days per week at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. During go-live or other key delivery periods, on-site requirements may increase.
Main duties of the job
As anEPR Business Analyst, you will playa central rolein the Trust's digital transformation programme, ensuring that the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system is designed, implemented, and optimised to meet the needs of patients, clinicians, and operational teams.
You willbe responsible forengaging with a wide range of stakeholders to capture and analyse requirements, translating them into clear specifications for system development. The role involvesfacilitatingworkshops, mapping current and future processes, supporting testing and validation activities, and ensuring that new digital workflows are safe, efficient, and aligned with NHS standards.
Acting as the bridge between clinical services, operational staff, and technical teams, you will help deliver a system that enhances patient care, improves data quality, and supports the Trust's strategicobjectives.
About us
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For details of this exciting role, please see the attached Job description and Person Specification. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required .
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
- oDegree-level education or equivalent experience in IT, Business Analysis, or related field
- oEvidence of continuing professional development
- oProfessional qualification in Business Analysis (e.g., IIBA, BCS)
- oProject management certification (Agile, PRINCE2)
Experience
- oProven experience as a Business Analyst in digital transformation projects
- oExperience of requirements gathering, process mapping, and stakeholder engagement
- oWorking knowledge of NHS clinical and operational workflows
- oExperience supporting system testing, validation, and deployment
- oPrevious involvement in EPR or large-scale healthcare IT implementations
- oExperience of working with suppliers/vendors in system delivery
- oFamiliarity with data governance and information security standards in healthcare
- oExperience of Automated testing tools
Experience Knowledge and Skills
- oStrong analytical and problem-solving skills
- oAbility to translate complex clinical/operational needs into technical specifications
- oCompetence in process modelling tools and techniques
- oKnowledge of interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR)
- oUnderstanding of NHS Digital and national EPR frameworks
- oAwareness of change management principles
Communications and Interpersonal skills
- oExcellent communication skills (written, verbal, presentation)
- oSkilled in facilitation of workshops, interviews, and focus groups
Other Requirements
- oAbility to travel between sites and other locations as required.
- oAbility to support onsite during key periods including unsociable hours.
- oAbility work flexibly to meet programme demands
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Mansfield Road
Sutton In Ashfield
NG17 4JL
Employer's website
https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/