Government of Jersey

Community and Social Services agency staff (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by States of Jersey and published on 20 July 2017.

Request

Agency Staff

Number of non-permanent, short term or agency staff contracted to Community and Social Services at the end of March 2017. What posts did they occupy?

Number of non-permanent, short term or agency staff contracted to Community and Social Services and occupying substantive posts at grade CS11 to CS13 at the end of March 2017. What posts did they occupy?

Number of permanent staff within Community and Social Service who were acting up or seconded into a different post at CS11 to CS13 at the end of March 2017. What posts did they occupy?

Redeployment and Recruitment

Number of staff on the States of Jersey redeployment register between October 2016 and April 2017

Number of staff who were successfully redeployed between October 2016 to April 2017 and into what posts and at what grade.

What posts graded at CS11 to CS13 across States of Jersey were advertised internally and externally between October 2016 and April 2017?

Which of these were successfully filled?

Response

Table 1 shows by type of role, the number of non-permanent, short term or agency staff within Community and Social Services as at the end of March 2017.

Table 1

Role Type	Total
Social Workers / Senior Practitioners	26
Heads of Service	<5
Team Managers	<5
Administration	12
Service Directors	<5
Occupational Therapists	<5
Psychologists	<5
Nurses	<10
Civil Servants / Allied Health Professionals	<5
Doctors and Consultants	<5
Junior Doctors	<5
Residential Child Care Officers	<5
Total	68

Table 2 shows by type of role, the number of non-permanent, short term or agency staff within Community and Social Services occupying substantive posts at grade CS11 to CS13 at the end of March 2017.

Table2

Role Type	Total
Social Workers / Senior Practitioners	8
Heads of Service	3
Team Managers	2
Service Directors	3
Psychologists	2
Civil Servants / Allied Health Professionals	2
Total	20

C - E

Due to the low numbers of employees captured by these aspects of the request we are applying Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011. We are unable to provide this information as to do so may provide the means to identify individuals.

Between October 2016 and April 2017, there were 49 roles at Civil Service Grade 11 to 13 advertised internally and / or externally.

Of those 49 roles, 63.3% were successfully recruited to, with a further 14 roles (28.6%) in the process of recruitment at the time of answering this question.

Exemptions 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.