What are the responsibilities and job description for the Labor Analyst position at Baptist Health Care?
Job Description
The Labor Analyst is a data-driven and strategic role that supports workforce optimization across our healthcare operations. This role plays a critical part in ensuring that staffing levels align with patient care needs, regulatory requirements, and financial goals. This position collaborates with operational and clinical leaders to develop labor models, identify and create performance improvement initiatives, and support data-driven decision making to enhance efficiency and care quality.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Minimum Education
Minimum Work Experience
About Us
Baptist Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system committed to improving the quality of life for people and communities in northwest Florida and south Alabama. The organization includes three hospitals, four medical parks, Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and an extensive primary and specialty care provider network. With more than 4,000 team members, Baptist Health Care is one of the largest non-governmental employers in northwest Florida.
Baptist Health Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BHC maintains and enforces a policy that prohibits discrimination against any workforce members or applicants for employment because of sex, race, age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, religion, genetic information, or other category protected by federal, state or local law.
The Labor Analyst is a data-driven and strategic role that supports workforce optimization across our healthcare operations. This role plays a critical part in ensuring that staffing levels align with patient care needs, regulatory requirements, and financial goals. This position collaborates with operational and clinical leaders to develop labor models, identify and create performance improvement initiatives, and support data-driven decision making to enhance efficiency and care quality.
Responsibilities
- Analyze labor utilization, productivity metrics, and staffing patterns across clinical and non-clinical departments.
- Develop labor standards and productivity benchmarks tailored to healthcare settings (e.g., nursing units, outpatient clinics, ancillary services).
- Collaborate with nursing leadership, HR, finance, and operations to align labor strategies with patient volume and acuity.
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to labor costs, efficiency, and utilization.
- Assist in the implementation of labor management systems and tools.
- Ensure data accuracy and integrity across labor-related systems and reports.
- Conduct variance analysis and root cause investigations for labor inefficiencies.
- Strong understanding of healthcare operations, staffing models, and regulatory frameworks,
- Manage productivity reporting in Axiom.
Qualifications
Minimum Education
- Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Finance, Health Care Required
Minimum Work Experience
- 3 years Labor analysis, productivity analysis, operations, or workforce planning in a healthcare setting Required
About Us
Baptist Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system committed to improving the quality of life for people and communities in northwest Florida and south Alabama. The organization includes three hospitals, four medical parks, Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and an extensive primary and specialty care provider network. With more than 4,000 team members, Baptist Health Care is one of the largest non-governmental employers in northwest Florida.
Baptist Health Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BHC maintains and enforces a policy that prohibits discrimination against any workforce members or applicants for employment because of sex, race, age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, religion, genetic information, or other category protected by federal, state or local law.