Business Analyst
Job summary
The New Hospital Programme is more than building hospitals, it's a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of healthcare in England. We're delivering over 40 new hospitals that will be modern, sustainable and built around the needs of patients and staff. We're looking for people who care about purpose, who thrive in complex environments and who want to help deliver change at scale for future generations.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst with a proven track record in providing analytical solutions within major programmes or complex projects. The post holder will support with the implementation of digital solutions across the New Hospital Programme, working alongside the Senior Systems manager. We're looking for someone who brings:
- Strong research and problem solving abilities with the clarity to make clear recommendations
- Proven analytical capability and experience developing digital or data driven solutions
- Confidence in challenging assumptions and influencing stakeholders
- Experience building dashboards and visualisations (Power BI preferred)
- A collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively within a large, complex programme
About us
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
For more information on the NHP programme
Due to ongoing organisational change and developments, aspects of this role may be subject to change.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge and understand that NHS England is currently undergoing a consultation process to finalise its structure, which may impact this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Educated to Degree level in a relevant subject
- Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes.
Experience
- Experience of working in complex environments
- Demonstrate an understanding of datasets and data sources including the quality and reliability of the data
- Experience of triangulating data from different sources and demonstrate an appreciation of the differences that might occur in large datasets
- Experience with relevant analysis software including Microsoft Excel
- Has a methodical approach to evaluation
- Experience of managing risks and reporting.
- Experience in developing clear and robust business cases, seeking assistance when needed.
- Awareness in project and programme management methodologies such as Prince 2, MSP and / or Agile
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes.
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment.
Skills, Attributes & Abilities
- Able to work in complex and sometimes high pressured environments.
- Self aware and knows when to ask for assistance.
- Evidence of familiarity with and application of statistical techniques and able to provide examples
- Actively researches work area before starting a new project and regularly updates understanding to inform direction and technical aspects
- Able to build and document complicated and varied types of models including forecasting models.
- Experience in using a range of statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, R, and SQL
- Technical skills in data management, business intelligence and analytics - including data modelling, data visualisation (e.g. Microsoft PowerBi) and data blending (e.g., Alteryx and SSIS) along with other supporting tools (e.g., Microsoft PowerBi)
Employer details
Employer name
NHS England
Address
This role can be based in any NHSE Office base
Nationally
SE1 8UG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/