Chief of Service - Medical Care Group

Job summary

This post includes a welcome incentive and relocation package for the successful candidate. Terms and conditions apply.

Interviews for this post are scheduled for Thursday 22nd October 2026, with a pre-interview engagement day on Wednesday 21st October 2026. Attendance in person is required on both days. Please take these dates into consideration when applying.

Health and Care Jersey (HCJ) are pleased to invite applications for the role of Chief of Service, Medical Care Group. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of healthcare in a unique, independent health system on the island of Jersey. We are looking for a senior medically qualified clinician with experience of providing divisional/care group level leadership, ideally with experience of medical specialities. This post is accountable to the Chief Operating Officer Acute Services and professionally responsible to the Medical Director.

Main duties of the job

The Chief of Service will supervise and lead medical staff and manage the day-to-day operations of the Care Group. They will seek to ensure that the Care Group provides effective and efficient patient services of the highest quality. Strong clinical engagement is central to the management of the Care Group. They will contribute to the day-to-day corporate management and the strategic direction of Health and Care Jersey (HCJ).

About us

We aim to enable Islanders to live longer, healthier and productive lives. We provide safe, sustainable, affordable and integrated services in partnership with others.

These include the provision of a wide array of hospital services, social care and support in the community, such as:

• providing hospital care including emergency care, intensive care and maternity services and in the UK when needed
• providing social care services, and services in the community
• monitoring and improvement of the quality of all services
• the education and development of medical professionals
• the provision of a coordinated approach to mental health care
• offering free, private and confidential counselling services
• influencing and creating conditions that allow people to improve their health

Details

• Date posted: 26 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
• Salary: £119,025 to £177,443 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: K0011-26-0081
• Job locations: Government Of Jersey, 19-21 Broad Street, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, JE2 3RR, Jersey

Job responsibilities

The Chief of Service leads the multi-professional care group senior leadership team to provide strategic, operational and professional leadership and management to a broad range of medical specialties. The Medical Care Group is responsible for a significant element of service delivery for Health and Care Jersey, with both emergency and elective activity over multiple sites that includes the accident and emergency department, the acute inpatient bed base and outpatient medical clinics.

The primary duties of the role are to provide medical leadership but there will in addition be opportunities for the appointee to engage in clinical practice in their area of specialist interest if desired.

The new Chief of Service will join the organisation at a time of significant transformation, with recent investment in new medical consultant posts and with planning underway for a major new hospital development on the island. The service is also renewing and expanding links with UK tertiary services to create new clinical pathways and to ensure that all aspects of modern medical care are available to the island. The appointee will thus have the opportunity of leading on a programme of extensive change and service redevelopment, shaping the future of medical care delivery in Jersey.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).