Senior Analyst

Location:

Remote role with regular on-site client work across the UK

Reporting to:
Managing Partner, Specialty Transformation

Join us as a Senior Analyst in Specialty Transformation and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of NHS specialty services. The Senior Analyst will work alongside a site engagement lead to provide analytics‑driven improvement across NHS Trust specialty services, transforming clinical pathways to increase clinical productivity, improve efficiency and reduce waste, and enhance patient experience. You will engage directly with senior clinical and operational leaders, translating health data into actionable insights, creating dashboards, reports and dataflows and delivering robust forecasting, predictive models and pathway simulations.

This is a highly consultative, client‑facing role requiring frequent multi‑day on‑site engagements nationwide, partnering with clinicians and managers to design, implement and track measurable change.

• Analyse specialty‑level activity, demand, capacity and flow to identify constraints, variation and waste.
• Build forecasting, predictive and scenario models (e.g., demand/capacity, clinic templates, backlog recovery, theatre and outpatient optimisation).
• Translate insights into re‑designed pathways, standard operating procedures and implementation plans.

• Lead discovery, data validation and insight workshops with clinical and operational stakeholders.
• Co‑develop improvement roadmaps, quantifying benefits and defining milestones, KPIs and governance.
• Provide on‑site advisory support for multi‑day engagements across the UK; facilitate change huddles and clinical engagement sessions.

• Establish baselines, targets and tracking dashboards for productivity, efficiency and patient experience outcomes.
• Monitor impact, course‑correct interventions and produce executive‑ready reports and board papers.

• Work with Trust data teams to extract, clean and integrate health data (e.g., EPR, PAS, RTT, theatre, diagnostics).
• Ensure robust data definitions, lineage and reproducibility of analytical methods.

• Present complex analytics in clear, compelling narratives for clinical, operational and executive audiences.
• Manage expectations, risks and dependencies; escalade issues proactively and diplomatically.

• Contribute to Liaison Group methodologies, accelerators and reusable models for specialty transformation.
• Mentor junior analysts; champion best practice in modelling, visualisation and delivery.

• Extensive experience (typically 5‑8+ years) in NHS analytics or operational research with demonstrable pathway transformation impact in NHS or comparable healthcare systems.
• Advanced capability in analytical modelling, including forecasting, predictive modelling, queuing/flow, variability reduction and scenario simulation.
• Strong consultative approach: requirements discovery, hypothesis‑led problem solving, structured storytelling, and benefits realisation.
• Proficiency with SQL and one or more analytics tools (e.g., Python/R, Power BI/Tableau), including data wrangling and visualisation.
• Confident facilitator able to run workshops with clinicians and managers; excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Evidence of delivering measurable improvements in productivity, efficiency and patient experience at specialty/service‑line level.
• Comfortable operating on client sites for several consecutive days; resilient, organised and self‑directed in high‑stakes environments.
• Understanding of NHS data sets (e.g., SUS, RTT/PTL, theatre, outpatient, diagnostics), information standards and IG requirements.
• Strong understanding of activity capture into main and local systems through to SUS submission and reimbursement.
• Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Operational Research, Data Science, Health Informatics) or equivalent experience.
• Ongoing CPD in forecasting, predictive modelling and healthcare improvement…