Healthcare Business Analyst – Behavioral Health / Psychiatric Healthcare

Location: Utah
Work Arrangement: 100% ON-SITE – Utah LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY
Hours: 40 hours/week
Interview: Onsite

LOCAL UTAH CANDIDATES ONLY – 100% ONSITE

This position requires the consultant to work onsite at a State Hospital in Utah. Utah residency is mandatory. Remote, hybrid, or out-of-state candidates will not be considered.

We are seeking an experienced Healthcare Business Analyst / Clinical Business Analyst with strong hands-on experience gathering and analyzing business requirements within a psychiatric, behavioral health, mental health, hospital, or comparable clinical healthcare environment.

The successful candidate will work directly with clinical, healthcare operations, administrative, business, and IT stakeholders to analyze workflows, elicit requirements, document business and functional requirements, develop user stories and acceptance criteria, and support technology initiatives through an Agile / SAFe delivery environment.

CORE REQUIREMENT

5+ years of hands-on Business Analysis experience with substantial business requirements gathering in a psychiatric hospital, behavioral health organization, mental health facility, clinical healthcare setting, or comparable healthcare environment is required.

Candidates with only generic Business Analyst experience and no meaningful healthcare/clinical domain experience will not meet the core requirement.

What You Will Do

• Lead business requirements gathering and requirements elicitation with clinical, operational, administrative, and IT stakeholders.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, workshops, observations, and requirements analysis.
• Analyze clinical workflows, healthcare processes, operational workflows, and current-state/future-state processes.
• Translate business and clinical needs into clear business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, and process flows.
• Document current-state and future-state workflows using process maps, workflow diagrams, and business process documentation.
• Perform gap analysis, impact analysis, dependency analysis, and process analysis.
• Identify business problems, requirements gaps, risks, assumptions, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Maintain requirements traceability from business needs through solution delivery and testing.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, architects, QA teams, clinical stakeholders, and business leadership.
• Participate in SAFe / Scaled Agile Framework delivery activities.
• Support PI Planning, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other Agile/SAFe ceremonies as applicable.
• Convert requirements into well-defined Agile user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Support product backlog refinement and requirements prioritization.
• Prepare and maintain Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), functional specifications, process flows, workflow documentation, use cases, and requirements documentation.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by developing test scenarios, validating requirements, coordinating stakeholder feedback, and confirming expected outcomes.
• Work with technical teams to clarify business requirements and resolve requirements-related questions.
• Communicate requirements, decisions, dependencies, risks, and project status to stakeholders and leadership.

Required Skills & Experience

Healthcare / Clinical Domain

• 5+ years of Business Analysis / Healthcare Business Analysis experience
• 5+ years of requirements gathering within a psychiatric, behavioral health, mental health, clinical healthcare, hospital, or comparable healthcare environment
• Behavioral Health
• Mental Health
• Psychiatric Healthcare
• Clinical Operations
• Healthcare Operations
• Clinical Workflow
• Healthcare IT
• Healthcare Systems
• EHR / Electronic Health Record environments

Business Analysis

• Business Analysis
• Business Requirements
• Requirements Gathering
• Requirements Elicitation
• Requirements Analysis
• Functional Requirements
• Requirements Documentation
• Requirements Traceability
• User Stories
• Acceptance Criteria
• Use Cases
• Process Mapping
• Workflow Analysis
• Business Process Analysis
• Current-State / Future-State Analysis
• Gap Analysis
• Stakeholder Analysis
• UAT / User Acceptance Testing

Agile / SAFe

• SAFe / Scaled Agile Framework
• Agile
• Scrum
• PI Planning
• Backlog Refinement
• Sprint Planning
• Sprint Review
• Product Backlog
• User Story Development
• Acceptance Criteria
• Agile Requirements Management
• Collaboration with Product Owners and Scrum Masters

Tools

• Jira
• Confluence
• Microsoft Visio
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft 365
• Requirements management / collaboration tools

Preferred Experience

• Direct experience supporting psychiatric hospitals or behavioral health facilities
• Mental health or behavioral healthcare operations
• Clinical workflow analysis
• EHR / Electronic Medical Record systems
• Healthcare IT implementations
• Healthcare process improvement
• State government or public-sector healthcare
• Public health systems
• SAFe certification
• CBAP, PMI-PBA, or similar Business Analysis certification
• Experience working with enterprise healthcare applications