Business Analyst

Job summary

The Business Analyst will support the work of the Corporate Services Transformation Programme working with the Programme Lead, BCPC Managing Director and the CST SRO, providing data and information insights that enable the delivery the work programme.

The postholder is expected to be a self-starter with excellent business analytical skills, able to digest complex data and information to interpret simplistically for the lay reader. They should be a capable and credible individual, who ideally has a diverse range of NHS experiences of both commissioning and provider segments of healthcare.

They will be expected to understand the current NHS environment, its key policies and fluent in business analytics with excellent communication and presentation skills able to receive simple requests, to interrogate complex data sources and provide simple responses for a diverse range of transformation and improvement priorities / projects. This will be an intense and pressured role, with many demands of the postholders time to feed key governance processes such as service proposals & specifications, and business cases.

Initial preference will be given to anybody identified as 'at risk' within the Black Country ICS

Main duties of the job

To investigate, analyse and predict outcome of highly complex data with multiple, sensitive outcomes.

Implement systems to ensure there is continuous review of the data to ensure the system maximizes all its opportunities to improve productivity, efficiency and quality of its services.

Design and recommend improvement measures and set up reporting mechanisms to capture the relevant data on the required basis.

Highly developed communication skills are required as a means to manage the complex and challenging messages to effectively and positively manage the messages whilst engaging the clinical and non-clinical teams.

Responsible for compiling and managing the production of dashboards and appropriate reports to accurately report on delivery of key performance metrics, highlighting where programmes are off track for delivery agreed priorities.

To provide statistical analysis and profiles of trends within performance information, to guide early warning of delivery challenges and support mitigating decisions.

To further develop Transformation & Improvement Team reporting tools to take on new data flows, enhance current flows and proactively explore the development of new dashboards in line with the evolving portfolio of programmes delivered in the BCPC workplan.

About us

Provider collaboratives are partnerships that bring together two or more NHS trusts to work together at scale to benefit their populations. These partnerships are being established across England as part of a national policy, entitled "Working together at scale: Guidance on Provider Collaboratives", that requires all trusts providing acute and mental health services to be part of one or more provider collaboratives by April 2022.

The Black Country Provider Collaborative (BCPC) is made up of four main trusts:

• Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
• Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
• Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Together, they work collaboratively to deliver effective, accessible, and sustainable