Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Business Analyst

The closing date is 04 November 2025

Job summary

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

We are looking for a highly experienced candidate who has a proven track record in Business Analysis, within a digital environment, working with teams from design to implementation and possessing the skills to get stuck straight into our challenging programme, supporting business process design and the planning of change management across the trust.

You will have a full and experienced understanding of Business Analysis as well as recognised improvement tools, techniques and methodologies as well as a working knowledge of project management in practice.

You will be able to support teams and individuals in the organisation to develop their vision for their future state designs, associated requirements, specifications and to develop plans that support them to realise the benefits identified in their designs.

Main duties of the job

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 our EPRs, and our legacy systems. It is expected the successful candidate will be able to document their engagement in the appropriate form i.e. power vs interest diagrams, stakeholder management template or RACI charts.

Within this role you will be responsible for managing benefit realisation. This would include the identification, validation, documentation and tracking of all predicted benefits.

We'd like to highlight that this position is not a Data Analyst role and is focused on Business Analysis and change delivery. So please ensure that your application clearly shows relevant the Business Analysis skills, experience, and methodologies.

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with business analysis experience to work in a fast paced and diverse environment where the opportunity to 'make a difference' is ever present.

About us

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, we believe 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

Details

Date posted

21 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-CS2791-LW

Job locations

Sceptre Point

Preston

PR5 6AW


Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • Business Analysis Foundation Certificate
  • Training in improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, Design

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge, understanding and application of a range of Business Analysis tools.
  • Extensive history and success of managing improvement projects of all scales, utilising all appropriate techniques, tools, and maintaining first class project documentation
  • Demonstrable in depth understanding of a range of improvement methodologies including Lean, Six Sigma, SPC.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a Health Informatics or Transformation environment
  • Experience of designing, running and evaluating improvement, change or redesign projects using appropriate improvement methodologies on a large scale
  • Experience of working in a large, complex and diverse service, including exposure to solving a range of operational and strategic problems

Skills

Essential

  • Able to effectively communicate and work across organisational boundaries
  • Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to work under pressure, and independently, meeting deadlines, whilst maintain a high quality of work.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • Business Analysis Foundation Certificate
  • Training in improvement methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, Design

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge, understanding and application of a range of Business Analysis tools.
  • Extensive history and success of managing improvement projects of all scales, utilising all appropriate techniques, tools, and maintaining first class project documentation
  • Demonstrable in depth understanding of a range of improvement methodologies including Lean, Six Sigma, SPC.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a Health Informatics or Transformation environment
  • Experience of designing, running and evaluating improvement, change or redesign projects using appropriate improvement methodologies on a large scale
  • Experience of working in a large, complex and diverse service, including exposure to solving a range of operational and strategic problems

Skills

Essential

  • Able to effectively communicate and work across organisational boundaries
  • Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to work under pressure, and independently, meeting deadlines, whilst maintain a high quality of work.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sceptre Point

Preston

PR5 6AW


Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sceptre Point

Preston

PR5 6AW


Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Team Leader

Sophie Cunningham

Sophie.cunningham@lscft.nhs.uk

Details

Date posted

21 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-CS2791-LW

Job locations

Sceptre Point

Preston

PR5 6AW


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