Business analyst
Band 6 · Business analyst · 421 job evaluation points
UK GDaD PCF level: Business analyst
A business analyst leads small to medium size projects and supports larger and more complex projects.
At this role level, you will:
- manage stakeholder relationships
- work independently
- have a good understanding of your work area
- develop the business analysis community by sharing best practice and mentoring others
Responsibilities
- Lead the analysis for small and medium projects, from problem definition to benefits measurement.
- Run workshops with clinicians, care staff, and managers to understand pain points and agree options.
- Model care pathways and information flows, including data exchanged with other health and care systems.
- Define safety-related and data requirements, and trace them through design, build, and test.
- Build benefits cases with measures such as staff time released, errors avoided, or patient experience.
- Mentor junior and trainee business analysts.
Skills
| Skill | Expected level | What this level means |
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| Adapting to delivery methodologies | Working (2) | You can:
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| Business and user acceptance testing | Working (2) | You can:
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| Business modelling | Working (2) | You can:
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| Business process improvement | Working (2) | You can:
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| Change, benefits and adoption analysis | Working (2) | You can:
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| Context, problem and option analysis | Working (2) | You can:
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| Defining and managing business needs, user needs and requirements | Working (2) | You can:
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| Digital and data systems analysis | Working (2) | You can:
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| Stakeholder relationship management | Working (2) | You can:
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| User experience insight analysis | Working (2) | You can:
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| Understanding health and care services | Working (2) | You can:
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| Clinical risk management | Working (2) | You can:
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| Information governance and data protection | Working (2) | You can:
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| Health data interoperability | Working (2) | You can:
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| Clinical terminology and classification | Awareness (1) | You can:
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Typical qualifications and experience
- A degree or a recognized business analysis qualification, or equivalent experience.
- Experience of business analysis on digital change projects.
Band 6 outline
- Knowledge
- Specialist knowledge across a range of procedures, built through further training or experience.
- Autonomy
- Works independently; interprets policy for own area; seeks advice on complex issues.
- Scope
- A product, service, or workstream.
- Leadership
- May lead a small team or mentor colleagues.
- Accountability
- Outcomes of own workstream and quality of advice given.
Job evaluation (illustrative)
| Factor | Level | Level summary | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication and relationship skills | 4 | Gives complex, sensitive, or contentious information needing persuasion, negotiation, or training skills, or highly complex information. | 32 |
| Knowledge, training, and experience | 6 | Specialist knowledge across the range of the specialism (postgraduate diploma level or equivalent). | 156 |
| Analytical and judgmental skills | 4 | Judgments on complex facts or situations needing analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options. | 42 |
| Planning and organizational skills | 3 | Plans several complex activities, adjusting plans as needed. | 27 |
| Physical skills | 3 | Developed skills needing speed or accuracy, such as advanced keyboard use. | 27 |
| Responsibility for patient and client care | 1 | Helps patients, clients, or relatives during incidental contact. | 4 |
| Responsibility for policy and service development | 3 | Implements policies for own area and proposes changes that affect other areas. | 21 |
| Responsibility for financial and physical resources | 1 | Takes personal care of equipment and resources used in own work. | 5 |
| Responsibility for people | 2 | Supervises or coordinates staff day to day, trains others regularly, or gives basic HR advice. | 12 |
| Responsibility for information resources | 4 | Adapts or designs information systems to others' specifications, or runs information systems for a department as the main duty. | 24 |
| Responsibility for research and development | 2 | Regularly does research, development, trials, or equipment and system testing as part of the job. | 12 |
| Freedom to act | 4 | Results are defined, but the job holder decides how to achieve them, within broad policy. | 32 |
| Physical effort | 1 | Sitting, standing, and walking, with little physical effort. | 3 |
| Mental effort | 3 | Frequent concentration on unpredictable work, or occasional prolonged concentration. | 12 |
| Emotional effort | 1 | Rare exposure, or occasional indirect exposure, to distressing circumstances. | 5 |
| Working conditions | 2 | Occasional unpleasant conditions, frequent travel or outdoor work, or near-continuous screen use on most days. | 7 |
| Total (Band 6: 396 to 465) | 421 | ||
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