Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Business Analyst
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Job Overview
We're looking for an experienced and analytical Senior Business Analyst to join our Planning and Strategic Development team. This is an exciting opportunity to use your expertise in data analysis, performance management and business planning to influence decision-making and support the delivery of high-quality healthcare services.
In this role, you'll transform complex data into meaningful insights, helping leaders across the Trust understand performance, identify opportunities and make informed decisions. Your analysis will play a key role in supporting operational performance, service planning and the Trust's medium and long-term strategic ambitions.
Working closely with colleagues across Business Planning, Divisional Management teams, Senior Leaders, Clinicians and partners across the local Integrated Care System, you'll build strong relationships and provide expert analytical support to a wide range of stakeholders.
This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the future direction of the Trust while developing your career in a supportive and forward-thinking team.
Join us and help turn insight into action, supporting better outcomes for our patients, staff and communities.
Main duties of the job
You will provide data and analysis to support the operational running of the RUH as well as to support service improvements and business planning.
You'll monitor the Trust's performance against national standards and provide analysis to drive improvement.
You will line manage and mentor junior analysts within the team.
You will build and update Power BI models and reports as well as SQL queries that support the running of the hospital and provide information to NHS England as well as ICB and other external partners.
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Working for our organisation
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17, 600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
By working together, we make a real difference for our patients, each other, and our community. Every role matters in delivering the exceptional, person‑centred care we’re proud of.
We’re committed to a compassionate, inclusive culture where kindness is championed, differences are valued, and diversity makes us stronger.
We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential. We prioritise staff wellbeing – and yes, we even have a pool!
Discover what it’s like to live and work in Bath, explore our RUH staff benefits, and learn how we’re building healthcare for the future through the Dyson Cancer Centre and our commitment to research.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
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Person specification
Competence in the use of PBI and SQL or equivalent
Essential criteria
Competence in the use of PBI and SQL or equivalent
Desirable criteria
Health Service Experience
Tight Deadlines
Essential criteria
Experience of working to tight deadlines
Please note - Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered unless an alternative right to work solution can be provided. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa e.g. those with graduate visa's) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying: Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if we receive a high number of applications. We strongly encourage you to complete and submit your application in good time to ensure it can be considered.
Documents to download
- Senior Business Analyst Job description (PDF, 313.9KB)
- Join the RUH (PDF, 1.3MB)
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Charlie Gale
Job title: Associate Director of Data & Insight
Email address: charles.gale@nhs.net
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