Business Analysis Manager inLondon / Leeds inLondon / Leeds PUBLISHED THU 5 DEC 2024

In 2024-25 and beyond, we're aiming to build on the success of our national channels and services by supporting the NHS to prevent ill health and keep people healthy, for longer. As part of our Enabling Products portfolio, our vision is to digitally enable referrals and bookings between care settings across the NHS.

The booking and referral standard (BARS) enables any NHS environment to digitally refer a patient to another environment, with or without a booking. It is a secure, safe and standardized way of capturing data about a patient and transmitting that data to their next point of care.

Today - there are no digital referral pathways between many care settings across health and care. Patients have to repeat information, they may not arrive at the right place, and that place might not be expecting them. BARS streamlines care, avoids duplication, enhances triage and ensures patient arrives at right place for the right care at the right time.

To drive forward this exciting agenda, we're seeking a Business Analysis Manager with a good understanding of the strategic direction of the NHS who can quickly establish relationships with suppliers to support the development of the BaRS Standard.

This role is within BaRS providing business analysis services. This is a 'full-lifecycle' role with possible involvement from business case development to operational review, via requirements, design, development, test and implementation. This role is part of NHSE's Business Analysis Profession.

The key competencies required for this role can be summarised as the core Business Analysis specialisms - including stakeholder engagement, requirements and the modelling of process/information/function. These are delivered by the role-holder working within rigorous project/programme/service frameworks and require a professional and delivery-focussed consultancy outlook. As a Business Analysis Professional the role-holder will work with Managers, Architects, Developers and other fellow Professionals to deliver against challenging objectives; the role-holder will also be part of NHSE's family of Business Analysis Professionals distributed across the organisation. The role-holder will also be expected to have significant responsibility for Business Analysis practice and tooling.

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Key responsibilities

In addition to the standard duties of a Business Analysis Manager, the Business Analysis Manager within the BaRS team will;

• Lead on research and analysis providing a foundation for strategic decision-making, aligning BaRS with user needs, relevant policies and gaining support from key decision makers.
• Identifies gaps in the current capabilities and drives the development of BaRS by creating requirements for further use cases and applications. This is crucial for maintaining alignment with programme goals.
• Produces technical and business documentation to be incorporated into the published standard, supporting the development cycle and ensuring BaRS remains up-to-date.
• Works closely with suppliers to understand their requirements, address technical, business, and development issues, and support the adoption and understanding of BaRS across a wide range of stakeholders.
• Interface with suppliers and internal teams translating technical aspects of work to non technical stakeholders
• Supports the successful on-boarding of BaRS by liaising with system suppliers and providers to deliver BaRS through Beta into Live.
• Experience and in depth understanding of HL7 FHIR
• Understands business and development issues for suppliers and where BaRS can help.
• Ability to undertake Data Modelling

Please also see attached Job Description document.