Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the newly formed Continuous Improvement team in NICE as a Senior Business Analyst for Continuous Improvement. Your main function will be to provide expert advice and input to quality improvement efforts across the organisation. You will support teams to maximise productivity, efficiency, integrate work and reduce waste whilst enhancing quality. You will be an expert in quality improvement practices and will help to embed continuous improvement through relationship building, teaching improvement science, coaching improvement work and supporting the Programme Director of Improvement in building an infrastructure for improvement across the organisation. You will work closely with all directorates ensuring that quality improvement approaches are adopted to achieve successful delivery of business needs.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Business Analyst for Continuous Improvement, you will:
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Build relationships and coach teams on improvement work.
- Act as a key interface between operational teams and the Continuous Improvement Team.
- Use quality improvement methodology to help teams to understand their systems, develop strategies and change ideas, test ideas, capture learning, embed successful change and spread improvements.
- Initiate and manage business analysis activities.
- Work with expert group teams to improve business processes.
- Support the organisation to identify opportunities for standardisation and waste removal.
- Provide professional support to team members.
- Contribute to staff recruitment.
- Maintain regular communication with senior staff.
- Manage a budget for quality improvement some activities.
- Commission external work and oversee contracts with external suppliers.
- Ensure resource requirements are planned for.
- Manage relationships with external suppliers and stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen the portfolio of improvement projects.
- Ensure business requirements are captured and communicated.
- Produce and maintain management reporting documentation.
- Develop and produce business requirements documentation.
- Undertake benefits analysis.
- Plan and deliver workshops and training.
- Undertake external benchmarking.
- Maintain project management documentation.
- Prepare complex analysis documents and strategies.
About us
The People and Places Directorate is responsible for managing our human resources, facilities and improvement functions in alignment with NICE's core purpose. You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team at an exciting time when NICE is on a journey of transformation to become more agile to be able to respond to the needs of the health and care sector. You will be joining of team of 7 people in the recently formed Continuous Improvement Team.
Here at NICE, we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment.
Benefits:
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We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
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We provide a thorough induction programme
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Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
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We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
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We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
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We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Candidates invited to an interview will be asked to complete and submit a task to demonstrate the skills required for the role. The task and brief will be given once the interview is confirmed, the deadline for completion will be 1500hrs on 13th June 2024.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Candidates invited to an interview will be asked to complete and submit a task to demonstrate the skills required for the role. The task and brief will be given once the interview is confirmed, the deadline for completion will be 1500hrs on 13th June 2024.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's Degree relevant to the role or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development
- Quality Improvement qualification (Model for Improvement, Lean or Lean Six Sigma)
- Prince 2 and / or Agile practitioner or relevant project management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a quality improvement advisor/coach role
- Significant experience in a business analyst role for business/service process redesign
- Demonstrable experience gained in a health and/or social care environment
- Experience of working successfully with technical, clinical, and managerial leads in quality improvement projects and programmes
Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to demonstrate experience in the preparation and delivery of workshop design/ facilitation.
Other
Essential
- Able to demonstrate a self-directed and pro-active attitude in areas relevant to this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's Degree relevant to the role or equivalent level of knowledge acquired through experience and further training/development
- Quality Improvement qualification (Model for Improvement, Lean or Lean Six Sigma)
- Prince 2 and / or Agile practitioner or relevant project management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a quality improvement advisor/coach role
- Significant experience in a business analyst role for business/service process redesign
- Demonstrable experience gained in a health and/or social care environment
- Experience of working successfully with technical, clinical, and managerial leads in quality improvement projects and programmes
Skills
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to demonstrate experience in the preparation and delivery of workshop design/ facilitation.
Other
Essential
- Able to demonstrate a self-directed and pro-active attitude in areas relevant to this role.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
