Job Title: Assistant General Manager
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No
DBS Check Level: Standard
Salary Range: £79,133.77 to £86,974.41
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date: 15/09/2026
Job Overview
Are you looking for your next senior operational leadership role in healthcare? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy working alongside clinical teams and want to make a visible difference to patient care?
Health and Care Jersey are seeking an experienced and proactive Assistant General Manager to join our Medical Care Group. This is an exciting opportunity for an operational leader who is passionate about service improvement, performance, quality and workforce development, who wants to help shape the future of healthcare for the Island community. Working closely with the General Manager, Clinical Leads, Lead Nurses and wider multidisciplinary teams, you will play a pivotal role in delivering safe, effective and sustainable services across a portfolio of medical specialties. This is a role where you will influence operational performance, drive improvement programmes and help ensure the highest standards of care for patients.
About Health and Care Jersey
Health and Care Jersey (HCJ) is separate from the NHS. It provides health and care services for the Island's population and is responsible for delivering acute, community, mental health and specialist services across Jersey. As a small island health system, Jersey offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful contribution at pace. Jersey offers an excellent quality of life, with beautiful coastlines, excellent leisure opportunities, short commuting times and a strong sense of community, it offers an attractive place to live and work. At Health and Care Jersey, our goal is to deliver high-quality, safe and sustainable services that improve the health and wellbeing of Islanders. We are looking for leaders who share that ambition.
About the Role
The Medical Care Group provides comprehensive acute, inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic and specialist medical services, encompassing emergency and ambulatory care, medical specialties, cancer and palliative care, pathology and a wide range of clinical investigation and endoscopy services. As Assistant General Manager, you will support the operational leadership of services in Medicine and work in partnership with clinical and nursing colleagues to achieve the Care Group's strategic and operational objectives. You will have responsibility for supporting performance, governance, workforce, financial management and service development across your portfolio, ensuring services are responsive, efficient and focused on delivering excellent patient outcomes. You will be expected to build strong working relationships across Health and Care Jersey and with external stakeholders, supporting a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement. Please see the attached documents for further information about the role.
What We're Looking For
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Significant operational management experience within healthcare.
- Strong understanding of performance, quality, governance and workforce management.
- Experience of leading service improvement and change initiatives.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to manage competing priorities within a complex operational environment.
- Strong communication, leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.
- A commitment to delivering outstanding patient care and service excellence.
Interviews for this role will take place in person in Jersey on 24 September 2026. If selected for interview, you will be required to attend face-to-face. Travel expenses from the UK to Jersey will be covered. For an informal discussion, please contact Gaurika Kapoor - General Manager - Medical Care Group - G.Kapoor@health.gov.je
Job Purpose
Please see full Job Description
Statutory Responsibilities
Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
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