Business Analyst - NHS
Woking area, Surrey
£42,000 + 35 hour working week, Private healthcare scheme, pension, parking, 25 days holiday. Flexi hours, Trainin and development program. MUST LIVE LOCAL & drive.

Due to new projects and expansion a software development company is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to work as part of a team responsible for the design, development and delivery of a large scale, complex electronic medical records system. Would you like to develop your skills/qualifications further in this area, having built a strong career in BA within the NHS already?

With a broad understanding of healthcare policies and procedures, clinical terms and the current drivers in healthcare practices, the Business Analyst needs to understand software and would benefit from having a good technical knowledge.
The Business Analyst will be responsible for gathering information, interpreting user needs and developing user requirements that are fit for purpose. The candidate will be required to participate in workshops with expert members of the customer's clinical and support teams, collating information from a number of different sources.
The Business Analyst will be assisting with QA and verification of deliverables, against the design requirements and production of system acceptance criteria for user acceptance testing exercises. The candidate must have excellent organisation, communication and inter-personal skills. The candidate must be professional, results orientated, flexible and able to work well under pressure.

Essential Requirements:
· Business analysis experience in a healthcare setting.
· Experience of working with project methodologies such as PRINCE2 and Agile.
· Experience of gathering, identifying, interpreting and elaborating customer requirements, as basis of software design
· Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
· Ability to develop and manage customer meetings to ensure the required meeting objects are achieved.
· Ability to talk authoritatively on a subject and to help co-ordinate multi-stakeholder discussions.
· Ability to shape user requirements, proving expert opinion
· Good all-round knowledge of healthcare practices, ideally in a clinical setting.
· Good all-round knowledge of the NHS healthcare system, healthcare policies and clinical terms.
· Understanding of software development techniques.

Desirable:
· Understanding of healthcare software architecture, working within or for NHS.
· Familiarity of Open Source methods and technologies.

Salary slightly negotiable for all the right skills and background, with client facing experience and willingness to take further qualifications.