Health and Community Services staffing (FOI)

Request 

Can you tell me how many people are employed by the department of health,  breaking it down to how many grades, how many nurse grades, consultants, associate specialists , managers both medical and non medical, etc. I basically would list a list of all employee types, not names !  Just figures broken down into grades etc. Can the above foi request also be broken down to specialities and departments. 

Response 

Please see the tables below for numbers of Health and Community Services (HCS) staff, broken down by staff group and grade within that staff group, showing totals including and excluding zero hour staff. 

Staff in the 'Managers – Medical' table include those managing teams involved directly in care delivery.

Staff in the 'Managers – Non-Medical' table include all managers of teams, departments, divisions or directorates in HCS that support clinical functions and the delivery of services and care across the hospital, Mental Health and community services, and those that maintain the sites at which care is delivered.

Roles with 'Manager' in the job title are detailed in the tables broken down by 'Managers – Medical' and 'Managers – Non-Medical', as requested. These roles have been excluded from tables for the staff groups to which they belong to avoid counting them twice. 

Please note, 'SPOTSALARY' denotes staff that sit outside of the standard grade scale for that staff group, and 'NONPAY' denotes staff that are under contract but are not currently in receipt of pay. Reasons for this may include sabbatical, or extended unpaid periods of parental leave or ill health. 

To protect the personal information of individuals that could be identified, a breakdown of numbers of staff by grade within a speciality or department has not been provided. Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Article Applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b)its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.