Job overview
Please note: this is a fixed term opportunity.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Team as an EPR Business Change Analyst. Based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital (with Trust-wide working), the postholder will support the delivery of the Trust’s EPR programme and wider digital transformation, helping to ensure safe and effective adoption of EPR solutions as part of the Trust’s Smarter Care and Smarter Working programmes.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with clinical, operational and digital colleagues, you will undertake business analysis and business change activity across EPR workstreams. This will include requirements gathering, end-to-end process mapping (AS-IS to TO-BE), supporting clinical and operational process redesign, and ensuring stakeholders have clarity on roles and responsibilities (e.g., using tools such as RACI).
You will also support delivery activity such as User Acceptance Testing (UAT) (including test script development, coordination and results tracking), and contribute to implementation readiness and go-live support—helping users transition confidently to new ways of working and ensuring changes are embedded safely into business as usual.
Working for our organisation
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
. EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
1. Degree or equivalent experience or equivalent level or equivalent experience
2. Knowledge of the provision of health services and Digital Systems
3. Practice or has equitable work based experience
4. Experience of working in Digital
Desirable criteria
5. Recognised Business Analysis qualification e.g. BCS Certificate in Business Analysis
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
6. Proven experience of effectively supporting projects with BA activities from brief through to delivery
7. Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders using different approaches relevant to the audience
8. Experience of working in health organisations
9. Experience of implementing formal business analysis techniques to improve consistency and quality of delivery
10. Experience of providing project management support to small to medium sized projects, from start to completion which included management of design, development and implementation of IT systems.
11. Experience of business process design capability
12. Experience of initiating and managing change
13. Awareness of nationally mandated standards e.g. Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) and DCB0129 or DCB0160 and NICE's
14. Experience of carrying out research of where similar problems have been solved in the NHS (e.g. by using NHS Futures, contacting other Trusts)
Desirable criteria
15. Experience of engaging with stakeholders for UAT testing strategies
16. Experience line managing staff
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
17. Ability to analyse and appropriately present often highly complex information, identify necessary action and make recommendations and follow these through
18. Ability to self-motivate and work on own initiative and organise own workload and that of the team to operate effectively
19. Excellent interpersonal skills, including high-level negotiation and influencing, development
20. Excellent communication skills (verbal/written) - including demonstrable experience of writing quality reports
21. Advanced written communication skills; ability to convey highly complex information in a way that is understood by a range of target audiences.
22. Highly motivated, hard-working, self-confident, robust and resilient individual with drive and determination to deliver
23. Highly motivated, hard-working, self-confident, robust and resilient individual with drive and determination to deliver
24. Able to perform confidently in stressful situations
25. Can constructively challenge and effectively manage conflict to reach a positive conclusion
26. Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven track record in developing and sustaining relationships with different customer groups at varying levels.
27. Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
28. Able to meet deadlines in a challenging and resource lean environment
29. Able to capture, document and manage business requirements in an unambiguous way
30. Excellent knowledge and use of Visio or other Process mapping tools e.g. MIRO MS Visio
31. Good working understanding of health informatics issues and clinical information systems Ability to travel to other hospital sites
32. Flexible to work out of normal working hours occasionally
33. Experience of engaging with clinical experts and evidence of understanding complex clinical pathways (e.g. Cancer care)
34. Evidence of managing his/her workload and working in a matrix management structure
35. Use of project and product delivery tools to help build road maps e.g. Service Now and Monday.com
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
36. Flexible working across different Trust sites
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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