Senior business analyst
Band 7 · Business analyst · 475 job evaluation points
UK GDaD PCF level: Senior business analyst
A senior business analyst has a good understanding of strategic arenas and leads large or complex projects.
At this role level, you will:
- have functional or people management responsibilities, or a combination of both
- mentor others
- develop best practice
- own stakeholder relationships
- manage community of practice activities within a business area
Responsibilities
- Lead business analysis on large or complex programmes, such as replacing a clinical system or redesigning a care pathway.
- Analyse options and their effect on care, safety, staff workload, and cost, and present recommendations to boards.
- Make sure clinical risk, information governance, and equality impacts are analysed and addressed in requirements.
- Define and track the benefits of change, and set up how they will be measured after go-live.
- Line manage or lead business analysts and run community of practice activities.
Skills
| Skill | Expected level | What this level means |
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| Adapting to delivery methodologies | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Business and user acceptance testing | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Business modelling | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Business process improvement | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Change, benefits and adoption analysis | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Context, problem and option analysis | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Defining and managing business needs, user needs and requirements | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Digital and data systems analysis | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Stakeholder relationship management | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| User experience insight analysis | Practitioner (3) | You can:
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| Understanding health and care services | Practitioner (3) | 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 | Working (2) | You can:
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| People management | Working (2) | You can:
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Typical qualifications and experience
- Substantial experience of business analysis on complex change, at a level equivalent to a master's degree.
Band 7 outline
- Knowledge
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, typically to master's level or equivalent experience.
- Autonomy
- Works to organisational policy; decides how results are achieved; is the expert others consult.
- Scope
- Several products or services, or a specialist function.
- Leadership
- Leads a team or a professional practice area.
- Accountability
- Delivery of a service or specialist function, and its budget if held.
Job evaluation (illustrative)
| Factor | Level | Level summary | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication and relationship skills | 5 | Gives highly complex or contentious information needing developed persuasion and negotiation, presents to large groups, or communicates where there are significant barriers to acceptance. | 45 |
| Knowledge, training, and experience | 6 | Specialist knowledge across the range of the specialism (postgraduate diploma level or equivalent). | 156 |
| Analytical and judgemental skills | 4 | Judgements on complex facts or situations needing analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options. | 42 |
| Planning and organisational skills | 4 | Plans a broad range of complex activities or strategies, adjusting them as needed. | 42 |
| 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 | 2 | Handles cash or valuables, looks after equipment used by others, controls stock, or authorises small payments. | 12 |
| Responsibility for people | 3 | Manages a group of staff day to day, teaches core or specialist training, or gives core HR advice. | 21 |
| Responsibility for information resources | 5 | Designs and develops major information systems, or runs information systems for several services as the main duty. | 34 |
| 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 7: 466 to 539) | 475 | ||
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