Job Title: Assistant Manager
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
DBS Check Level: Enhanced Adult List
Salary Range: £49,070.86 to £55,626.26
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date: 19/08/2026
Job Overview
We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Assistant Manager to join our residential rehabilitation service for women with complex emotional needs. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced support worker or healthcare assistant looking to develop their leadership skills within a specialist mental health rehabilitation setting.
The successful candidate will work alongside the Registered Manager and multidisciplinary team, you will provide day-to-day leadership and support to staff while helping to create a safe, therapeutic, and recovery-focused environment and support the delivery of high-quality care, promote positive outcomes for residents, contribute to risk management and safeguarding processes, and act as a role model for best practice.
You will also be required to support the Registered Manager in the effective day-to-day operation of a residential rehabilitation service for women with complex emotional needs, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care and support.
The Assistant Manager will provide leadership, guidance, and supervision to support staff, promoting a safe, therapeutic, and recovery-focused environment that enables residents to achieve greater independence, emotional wellbeing, and personal goals.
Working closely with residents, families, external professionals, and the wider multidisciplinary team, the Assistant Manager will help maintain high standards of care, foster a positive culture, and support the ongoing development of the service.
Interviews for this role are scheduled to take place on the Tuesday 1st September 2026.
For an informal disussion, please contact Katie Taylor via email- K.Taylor@health.gov.je
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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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