Assistant Business Analyst

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.

For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.

Job overview

This exciting opportunity will see you working within a dynamic Business Analysis and Change Team. The team works with network and service managers across the trust to identify, plan and undertake improvement projects related to digitally enabled change utilising appropriate improvement techniques.

We are looking for a candidate who has demonstrated an interest and passion for business analysis and business change in a healthcare environment. It is crucial you possess excellent problem-solving skills and an eye for detail, combined with the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in order to deliver successful digitally enabled change.

You must be willing to get 'stuck in' to our ambitious and challenging programmes, supporting business process design and the planning/implementation of change across the trust.

Main duties of the job

You should have an understanding of business analysis as a discipline as well as recognised improvement tools, techniques and methodologies including a working knowledge of project management in practice.

You will use your knowledge and engagement skills to gain understanding of clinical pathways and operational processes to assist clinicians, senior managers and other stakeholders in taking maximum advantage of new digitally enabled change.

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual that is a logical thinker combined with the ability to problem solve well. Above all, this is an opportunity to make a difference to the lives of clinicians and the patients we serve in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Working for our organisation

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience
• IT qualification (such as A-level, Microsoft Office Specialist, ECDL, etc.)

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of Digital and current NHS affairs
• Knowledge of the use of information across the NHS
• Knowledge of the use of business analysis requirement specifications

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven experience of unsupervised projects/requirements work in a fast paced environment
• Previous experience of using software packages such as Microsoft Office i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio
• Experience of using appropriate systems (Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint) to collect, collate and report data in an accurate format
• Experience with managing and prioritising business requirements
• Experience of the technical report development process

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Please be aware, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when submitting an application is monitored and if you have used AI to generate an application, you are required to declare this on your application form. Failure to do so, may result in your application being withdrawn.

We want to highlight the importance of integrity and authenticity in your application form, and ask you to use AI tools responsibly to ensure your application form is a true reflection of your skills, knowledge and experiences.

Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document.

Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.

For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).

You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you'd like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.

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Documents to download

• JD PS (PDF, 560.3KB)
• NHS Staff Benefits - 2023 (PDF, 556.9KB)
• We Do More at LSCFT (PDF, 654.2KB)