Band 6 Workforce Information Team Lead

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Workforce Information Team Lead to drive specialist workforce information, ESR data, and planning support. You will extract, validate, analyse and present complex data, translating it into dashboards, reports and planning assumptions.

You will lead a team, ensuring governance and data quality across outputs. The role supports operational management and strategic planning, including vacancies, turnover, absence and agency usage,

Qualifications

• Experience extracting and analysing complex workforce data.
• Ability to lead a small team and ensure data quality and governance.
• Subject matter expert for ESR workforce data and reporting.
• Experience translating data into dashboards, reports and planning outputs.

Responsibilities

• Lead extraction, validation, analysis and presentation of workforce data.
• Deliver dashboards, reports and briefings for workforce planning.
• Support operational and strategic workforce planning, including vacancies, turnover, absence.
• Provide day-to-day leadership to the Workforce Information team.

Skills

Data analysis

ESR data

Dashboard design

Team leadership

Governance

Stakeholder comms

Job description

The Workforce Information Team Lead will provide specialist workforce information, ESR and support workforce planning to the Workforce Planning Lead and Trust, enabling managers and senior leaders to make evidence-based decisions using accurate, meaningful and timely workforce intelligence.

The post holder will lead the extraction, validation, analysis and presentation of complex workforce data from ESR and related workforce systems, translating data into clear outputs such as dashboards, reports, briefings, exception reports and planning assumptions. The role will support both operational workforce management and strategic workforce planning, including establishment, vacancy, turnover, absence, bank and agency usage, workforce risks and future workforce requirements.

The post holder will provide day-to-day leadership to members of the Workforce Information team, supporting allocation of work, quality assurance, data standards, training and continuous improvement. They will act as a subject matter expert for ESR workforce data and reporting, ensuring data quality, governance and consistency across routine and ad-hoc workforce information outputs.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.