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Velindre University NHS Trust
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Business Analyst
Accepting applications until: 02-Dec-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 02-Dec-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Velindre Trust Headquarters
- Address
- 2 Charnwood Court
- Town
- Parc Nantgarw
- Postcode
- CF15 7QZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Cardiff
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £46,840 - £53,602 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Digital Services
Thank you for your interest in working for Velindre University NHS Trust, which is a committed equal opportunities employer. The Trust welcomes applications from people who share our vision;
Velindre University NHS Trust will be recognised locally, nationally and internationally as a renowned organisation of excellence for patient and donor care, education and research.
our values;
- Caring
- Respectful
- Accountable
and who will complement our current experienced and specialist employees who are passionate about working in a Trust that has the ambition to provide world class services and care to patient and donors.
Velindre University NHS Trust holds a special place at the heart of healthcare in Wales. It is also an amazing organisation to work and to develop your career. The Trust comprises of two divisions, Velindre Cancer Centre and Welsh Blood Service. The Trust also hosts on behalf of the Welsh Government and NHS Wales, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) and Health Technology Wales (HTW).
Velindre University NHS Trust provides our employees with a favourable salary and reward / staff benefits & support package.
For more information on this vacancy please contact the recruiting manager, who will be pleased to discuss their employment opportunity with you.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
The Trust also reserves the right to close a vacancy early or withdraw an advertisement at any stage of the process, to enable internal staff requiring to be redeployed in suitable roles.
Posts may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check and Professional Registration Check.
For more information on our Trust Employee Reward and Benefit’s Package please visit the Velindre University NHS Trust website.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable.
Job overview
Passionate about how digital can transform healthcare, for our donors, patients and colleagues? We have an exciting Digital Programmes team opportunity for a Business Analyst, to work collaboratively as part of the Value Based Healthcare Programme, across the Trust and wider NHS Wales, delivering transformative digital systems and insight-led services. We are in an exciting period of change, opening a new world class cancer centre to extend and enhance specialist cancer treatment along with delivery of cancer care closer to home at regional sites. For the Welsh Blood Service, we are transforming blood and transplant services, improving current capabilities alongside developing new services including plasma for medicines. An ambitious digital strategy underpins this, which will revolutionise the way in which we deliver services – from co-producing innovative technologies, working on digital inclusion, to embedding data & insight into our everyday. Our team are here to deliver new digital solutions and excellent everyday digital service, to improve services and outcomes. We recognise that successful digital transformation and service is as much to do with our people and culture as it is to do with technology
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We are seeking to appoint a highly skilled, enthusiastic and people-focused business analysts. Previous experience of working in a fast-paced and rapidly changing digital health environment fundamental. Demonstrable understanding and experience of operating within the full life-cycle of a project/programme and in business change, will be essential. You must be an outstanding communicator, an effective negotiator, with excellent stakeholder management skills.
VUNHST Digital Services is seeking to recruit a Business Analysts to join our fantastic team. The successful candidates will play a crucial role in new and exciting programmes of work.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to provide the key principles of prudent healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.
If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.
Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Person specification
Qualifications / Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent qualification / experience
- Familiar with modelling and analysis tools (e.g. Enterprise Architect), methods and standards (e.g. UML, BPMN).
- In-depth knowledge of business modelling techniques and experience in obtaining input from and communicating modelling results to senior managers for agreement.
- Knowledge of business processes to advise database designers and other application development team members on the details of data structures and associated components.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of applying a variety of analytical techniques to information and quantifying result integrity based upon assessment of sources and techniques applied.
- Experience of consulting activities and techniques including facilitating stakeholder groups
- Experience of process analysis, assessment and change including financial, cultural, technological, organisational and environmental factors. Further experience of establishing customer requirements and identifying how these map to process requirements.
- Expertise with the application of Business Analysis techniques, methods and tools; experience of the implementation of Business Analysis techniques, methods and tools as well as the enhancement of their application.
- Experience in defining, documenting and working on projects across all phases either alone or with a small team.
- Experience in identifying and assessing risks to the success of the project. Experience of producing realistic plans (quality, risk and communication plans) and contributing towards lessons learned.
- Experience in investigative work for strategy studies, business requirements and feasibility studies and in the specification of improvements to business processes.
- Experience of business process testing including the management of test scenarios and reporting of testing outcomes
- Experience in leading others and offering guidance.
- Experience in stakeholder management, communication and agreement to changes including experience in overseeing the planning of and implementation of change.
- Demonstrable experience of designing individual plans based on the documentation needs of users and of organising the production and distribution of approved documentation items.
- Experience of designing the content and appearance of complex information deliverables (e.g. web pages) in collaboration with clients / users.
- Significant experience of modelling tools and techniques.
- Substantial experience of working on complex projects
- Able to utilise office software packages to an intermediate or higher level. In particular MS Word, Project and Excel
- Highly organised, with the ability to work to agreed goals, in a self-directed and professional manner
- Ability to plan, document and prioritise own and staff members’ workload in a proactive manner.
- Demonstrable excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to negotiate successful outcomes with senior personnel.
- Highly experienced in influencing and negotiation skills including critical questioning and innovative thinking.
- Excellent facilitation skills.
- Ability to be an active listener and to tailor communication to the audience.
- Experience of resolving conflict and problems and challenging projects
- Ability to coach and mentor others. Manage the professional development of staff.
Desirable criteria
- Possess (or working towards) a recognised Business Analysis professional qualification (such as BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis).
- Working knowledge of the NHS and national developments and policy initiatives
- Understanding and knowledge of health service terminology and information requirements Understanding of the NHS Wales IM&T development and assurance processes, including the NHS Wales Information Standards Assurance Process.
- Understanding and experience of Agile methodology
- Practical experience of user centred design and service design principles.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across sites in a timely manner ,as required by the job.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to utilise office software packages to an intermediate or higher level. In particular MS Word, Project and Excel
- Highly organised, with the ability to work to agreed goals, in a self-directed and professional manner
- Ability to plan, document and prioritise own and staff members’ workload in a proactive manner.
- Demonstrable excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to negotiate successful outcomes with senior personnel
- Highly experienced in influencing and negotiation skills including critical questioning and innovative thinking
- Excellent facilitation skills
- Ability to be an active listener and to tailor communication to the audience
- Experience of resolving conflict and problems and challenging projects
- Ability to coach and mentor others. Manage the professional development of staff
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elin Griffiths
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Digital Programmes
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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