About the job

Job summary

The Civil Service embraces equality, diversity, and inclusion. At HSE, your personal qualities are as important as your professional experience. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and all walks of life.

Our approach is to recruit “on merit on the basis of fair and open competition”, in line with the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. As such, our thorough selection process ensures that you and every other candidate receive equal and fair treatment.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. We are dedicated to protecting people and places and helping everyone lead safer and healthier lives. The benefits that our work brings to business, workers and the UK economy are clear. Improved health and safety risk management protects workers and translates into reduced sickness absence, lower healthcare and welfare costs, and better productivity.

This is an influential position, and the Business Analyst plays a key role in the successful operation of one of the world’s leading regulators. We are seeking established Business Analysts who relish the opportunity to take a leading role in a rapidly maturing environment.

Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours or 4 days per week. 

There may be a requirement for overnight stays, as the successful candidate will need to meet with project teams as word dictates. 

Job description

You will work alongside Digital, Data and Technology professionals as well as operational and subject matter experts from HSE divisions, in designing, building, and implementing new operating models and digital services.  This will be with a focus on strategic priorities, efficiency, effectiveness, regulatory outcomes, and improving the user experience.

At a project level, our Business Analysts are responsible for baselining current activities, articulating business and user requirements, designing and implementing new services, processes, organisational structures and ways of working, as well as providing continuous improvement support to HSE’s operations.

This is an exciting opportunity to help us lead, drive and deliver significant change across HSE, driven by a new strategy and a number of new and challenging transformation programmes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake business analytics, including performance and productivity baselining, demand analysis, impact and feasibility analysis, scenario modelling, activity-based costings and benefits tracking.
• Work with stakeholders to help gather and refine requirements for future operating models.
• Understand and document the baseline and current state of services and functions, including end to end processes and user journeys.
• Collaborate with digital programmes, customer insight, technology, policy and operations teams in the design and the delivery of services and functions, which are efficient, effective and user centric.
• Design future state processes, workflows, and user journeys, contributing to the production of full end to end target operating models and organisational designs.
• Support a coherent, consistent, and compelling experience for service users and employees across the end-to-end process.
• Define operational pilots, test scenarios, etc. Analyse and report on test/pilot outcomes and results, adjusting proposed solutions as appropriate.
• Identify and manage key stakeholders, tailoring communication to their needs, and work with teams effectively and collaboratively across the organisation.
• Work with operational teams to ensure ongoing process control, performance, and compliance through the development of operational frameworks.
• Support the build of comprehensive transformation plans and business cases through the development of detailed cost/benefit models, and track benefits realisation post implementation.

Person specification

Essential Skills and Criteria 

• Experience of supporting business transformation activity that balances exceptional delivery for users, with the needs of operations and the business.
• A track record in capturing and creating User Stories, with associated Acceptance Criteria, that delivers performance improvements, efficiencies, and enhanced user experience.
• Experience of working in Agile delivery environments and using appropriate tools and techniques
• Demonstrable structured approach to analytical and critical thinking, with the ability to translate data and insights into improved processes and workflows.
• Experience of data analysis and modelling, with a focus on building financial activity-based cost/benefit models
• Knowledge and experience of using analysis tools (e.g., MS Excel, databases, etc.)

Experience - desirable

• Experience of developing services to Government Digital Service Standards, using Agile.
• Experience of working on large scale transformation programmes, ideally within a central government or regulatory context
• Experience of working with data structures and an understanding of data mapping and data architecture

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work. There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £40,788, Health and Safety Executive contributes £11,013 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Application information

As part of your application, you will be invited to complete:

• A CV that displays your job history, skills, experience and qualifications
• A 750 word personal statement which demonstrates how you meet the essential skills and criteria of the job advert.
• 250 words covering the lead behaviour 'changing and improving'

Please note that a BCS (formally ISEB) Foundation in Business Analysis certification or equivalent qualification is essential to this role. If you are successful at sift stage you will be asked to provide evidence of this qualification. If you are unable to provide confirmation of your qualification, your application will be withdrawn.

Application Guidance

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a personal statement https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/how-to-apply/

Sift information

At sift, you will be assessed on your CV, 750 word personal statement and 250 words covering the Lead Behaviour (Changing and Improving).

In the event of high numbers of applications, The personal statement will be marked as a benchmark. If the candidates pass this benchmark, they will be marked on their CV and 250 word behaviour statement.

The Sift is due to take place the week commencing 1st April 2024

Interview information

If you are successful at sift and you progress to interview stage, you will be assessed on the Behaviours listed in the advert and you will also be asked to complete a short presentation on the lead behaviour "Changing and Improving". If you are successful at sift, further information regarding the presentation will be given with 7 days for you to prepare.

The interviews are due to take place the week commencing 15th April 2024.

Please note the sift and interview dates could be subject to change due to panel availability.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. 
 
It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the terms and conditions they will adopt should they be successful in their application. 

AI Tools & Platforms

During the application process candidates are allowed to utilise AI (artificial intelligence) platforms and Tools to support them in writing their Behaviours, CV’s and Personal Statements. However, all information submitted must be factually accurate. This includes presenting the ideas and experience of others, or those generated by artificial intelligence, as your own. All presented information will be assessed at the Interview Stage.

Further Information

Please note that a Reserve list will be held for the period of up to 6 months.

Existing Civil Servants and applicants from accredited NDPBs are eligible to apply but will only be considered on loan basis (Civil Servants) or secondment (accredited NDPBs). Prior agreement to be released on a loan basis must be obtained before commencing the application process. In the case of Civil Servants, the terms of the loan will be agreed between the home and host department and the Civil Servant. This includes grade on return.

Sponsorship

This role is not open to application from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and require sponsorship your application will be rejected, and any provisional offers of employment will be withdrawn. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the terms and conditions they will adopt should they be successful in their application.

For a summary of HSE terms and conditions as part of Civil Service Reform, please see the attached document. Any move to HSE from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at here HSE is proud to be a part of the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS). As a Disability Confident employer, we positively welcome applications from disabled people. We are committed to making workplace adjustments to ensure anyone can participate in the recruitment and selection process. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for all disabled applicants who provide evidence of meeting the minimum requirements necessary for the post. If, during the application or interview process, you require any assistance due to a disability or a medical condition, please contact us at the email address below to discuss how we can support you. If successful in securing your role, HSE can provide suitable workplace adjustments to support you throughout your career with HSE.

If you have a disability and you need an application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please contact: hr.resourcing-team@hse.gov.uk

Please note, if you are a current civil servant and you are currently undergoing any of the following formal actions your application will not be progressed any further; Formal discipline action, any formal action regarding attendance, poor performance or any restriction of duties as a result of disciplinary action.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.