Workforce information


General Workforce

  • Total PHSO staffing at the end of Quarter 4 was 435.59  full time equivalent (FTE), this represents an increase, from 435.06 FTE, on  the previous quarter.
  • PHSO’s 12 month rolling turnover figure has remained  at 12.0%. This is higher than the turnover rate at this time last year where  turnover was 9.4%.

Equality and Diversity

  • Race: The overall BAME profile has increased slightly to 14.9% (Quarter 3 – 14.4%), this compares favourably with the 2011 Census figures where the BAME profile was 14.0%.
  • Gender profile: The profile across Manchester and London is consistent, female employees have a higher representation in both locations, at just over 60% in each location.
  • Disability: 10.0% of employees in London and 8.4% of employees in Manchester have a disclosed disability, London is now equal to the 10% benchmark, with Manchester being slightly below.  Disclosed disability for PHSO as a whole has increased to 9.5%, (7.0% for Quarter 3).
  • Age: Employees in the 25 - 49 age range make up 75.2% of PHSO staff, the percentage is greater in the Manchester office (79.2%).
  • Sexual Orientation: The proportion of staff disclosing their sexuality has increased slightly to 84.7% (Quarter 3 - 83.6%). The percentage of employees declaring their orientation as LGBT has increased slightly to 5.4%. (5.0% in Quarter 3).
  • Religion or belief: The percentage of those who ‘prefer not to say’ has decreased to 16.2% (Quarter 3 – 16.8%).
  • Payband: There is no change in BAME representation in Paybands S1 and S3. However, 33.3% of employees in payband S2, 15.4% of employees in payband SA1 and 14.3% of employees in payband SA2 are from a BAME background.
Diversity profiles (Headcount)
(Excluding agency staff)
Group Staff in Post at 31.03.2013
No. %
Asian 22 4.8%
Black 30
 6.5%
Chinese 1 0.2%
Mixed ethnicity 11 2.4%
Other ethnicity 5 1.0%
White 382 82.5%
Unknown 12 2.6%
Total 463  
Race: Workforce
  31/03/2013 31/12/2012 30/09/2012 31/06/2012 31/03/2012 31/12/2011 30/09/2011 30/06/2011 31/03/2011
PHSO (non-white) 14.9% (69) 14.4% (66) 14.0% (65) 14.1% (64) 13.9% (62) 14.6% (65) 15.1% (66) 15.1% (66) 15.2% (66)
London (non-white) 19.4% (60 18.6% (57) 18.2% (57) 18.5% (56) 17.8% (54) 18.5% (57) 19.3% (60) 19.2% (60) 18.8% (60)
Manchester (non-white) 5.9% (9) 5.9% (9) 5.3% (8) 5.3% (8) 5.6% (8) 5.8% (8) 4.8% (6) 4.9% (6) 5.2% (6)
Disability: Workforce
  31/03/2013 31/12/2012 30/09/2012 30/06/2012 31/03/2012 31/12/2011 30/09/2011 30/06/2011 31/03/2011
PHSO (disability) 9.5% (44) 7.0% (32) 6.7% (31) 6.8% (31) 6.7% (30) 6.5% (29) 6.4% (28) 6.7% (29) 6.3% (28)
London (disability) 10.0% (31) 8.2% (25) 7.7% (24) 8.0% (24) 7.9% (24) 7.5% (23) 7.7% (24) 8.0% (25) 7.4% (24)
Manchester (disability) 8.4% (13) 4.6% (7) 4.8% (7) 4.6% (7) 4.2% (6) 4.4% (6) 3.2% (4) 3.3% (4) 3.4% (4)
Statistics by Payband
Payband BAME White* Disabled Headcount
A/B 30.8% 69.2% 17.9% 39
PA/C 27.4% 72.6% 13.1% 84
D1/D2 10.7% 89.3 9.4% 224
E1/E2 7.0% 93% 5.3% 57
Senior Management 7.7% 92.3% 7.7% 13
Senior Clinical Advisers 10.9% 89.1% 2.2% 46

*White includes white minority ethnic groups