Job summary
NHSBT enables people to make a lifesaving difference by donating blood, organs, tissues, or stem cells. This role offers the chance to apply your professional expertise to a respected organisation dedicated to saving lives.
As a Senior Business Solutions Analyst, youll deliver expert analysis to help shape services, processes, and digital solutions within the ambitious Donor and Session Programme (DASP).You'll work in a multi-disciplinary team driving transformation of business and user experiences, requiring strong stakeholder management and leadership of business analysis activities.
The role includes managing or supporting other analysts, handling multiple projects with varying timelines, and balancing your own workload with team coordination. It requires initiative and autonomy, particularly in remote, virtual teams, while knowing when to seek support.
Every improvement you deliver contributes to NHSBT's mission to keep costs low and ensure more funding goes to front line NHS carehelping to save and improve lives every day.
Main duties of the job
You will develop business-focused, digital-led solutions to support NHSBTs operational and strategic change agenda. Key responsibilities include:
- Aligning digital solution options with NHSBTs strategy and effectively communicating with stakeholders Leading and managing Business Solutions Analysts and Business Analysts where required
- Producing requirement specifications, process maps, interface guides, and functional documentation while maintaining standards and policies
- Providing governance across the systems lifecycle to ensure business needs are met
- Coordinating cross-functional teams to validate and improve processes and resolve service or software issues
- Researching and developing solutions that best fit NHSBTs corporate needs
- Designing workflows and processes that deliver high performance and ensuring process assurance
- Managing compliance and quality in line with regulatory standards
The role involves travel, irregular hours, and occasional overnight stays with notice.
About us
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.
Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.
You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Details
Date posted
12 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£55,690 to £62,682 a year
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
24 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
007330
Job locations
England
Barnsley Blood Centre, Capitol Way, Dodworth
England
United Kingdom
S75 3FG
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Employer details
Employer name
NHS Blood and Transplant
Address
England
Barnsley Blood Centre, Capitol Way, Dodworth
England
United Kingdom
S75 3FG
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