Senior Workforce Information Analyst

NHS; London Borough of Harrow; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in London is seeking a Senior Workforce Information Analyst to coordinate workforce data and lead reporting efforts. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in workforce analysis, advanced skills in data analytics tools, and strong communication abilities. This role offers a salary range of £61,631 to £68,623 per annum, along with a hybrid work pattern, requiring on-site attendance twice a week.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a large organisation.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Extensive Workforce Information Analysis Experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate statistical returns relating to workforce.
• Lead and supervise the team on a day-to-day basis.
• Critically analyse workforce and pay-related data.

Skills

Workforce Information Analysis

Data Analytics

Advanced Excel Skills

SQL

Communication Skills

Education

Masters level in a relevant numerate discipline

Tools

NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR)

Power BI

Tableau

Qlikview

Job description

Overview

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust invites applications for the Senior Workforce Information Analyst position. The closing date is 06 October 2025.

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Workforce Information Analyst to join our team. Workforce information is a key resource to enable managers to deliver services in a cost-effective way and you will have a key role in supporting this.

Main duties of the job

The key elements of your role will be to:

• Coordinate statistical returns relating to workforce ensuring they are produced in a consistent, and timely manner.
• Lead and supervise the team on a day-to-day basis, ensuring coordination of regular and ad-hoc reporting requirements, identifying training needs and supporting team development.
• Critically analyse workforce and pay-related data from multiple sources to provide a range of reports for clients such as Trust Groups, Committees and Board, Sector/ Acute Provider Collaborative Boards and Trust Managers.
• Transform raw data into valuable information by analysis, and the development of management reports to meet user needs.
• Lead the HR contribution to the Trust's workforce and operational plan.

Provide expertise, leadership and support on a variety of large and small projects, as directed by the Senior HR Business Partner for Workforce or by external stakeholders for National Programme objectives, to work towards the enhancement of HR Information Systems.

You will have experience of working within healthcare and have advanced practical knowledge of Workforce Information in relation to Electronic Staff Records (ESR).

The Workforce Information team work a hybrid pattern and are on site twice a week.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country\'s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark\'s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Job responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

• Experience of working in a large organisation
• Educated to masters level in a relevant numerate discipline e.g. maths, statistics, economics, clinical training or have developed practical knowledge and skills to an equivalent standard for data analytics.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Extensive Workforce Information Analysis Experience and Advanced knowledge of using and running reports from NHS Electronic Staff Record [ESR]
• Significant experience of workforce operational planning and implementing best practice methodology
• Experience of development in analysis systems for example, PowerPivot, Qlikview, Tableau, SPC, or Power BI
• Experience of working with customers to meet current and future needs
• Highly developed knowledge of MS Excel, including use of Pivot Tables, an array of functions such as lookups (INDEX, MATCH, VLOOKUP), SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS, ISNUMBER, SEARCH etc
• Ability to communicate regularly with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to work autonomously, providing specialist advice both internally and externally, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Experience of working within projects
• Staff management and ability to train staff on one to one basis
• Working knowledge of SQL, MS Excel VBA and programming languages such as R or Python

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

£61,631 to £68,623 a year per annum including High Cost Area Supplement