Associate Director – Community Health and Social Care: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

This is a key leadership role within HSC, operating as part of the senior leadership team and enabling the Director of Care Delivery to fulfil their role in leading high-quality services that deliver the best outcomes for those individuals within Community Health and Social Care across the Bailiwick of Guernsey.The Associate Director provides leadership, operational management, and strategic direction of the service area in line with HSC Care Values. They will lead services that deliver high quality outcomes against best practice and professional standards and demonstrate value for money. They will promote a culture of openness and transparency whilst enabling their teams to engage in person centred service developments through the annual service planning cycle. This postholder should have experience of transforming care and implementing long term strategy. They will have extensive experience within Community Health and Social Care settings with the ability to motivate and inspire staff to deliver the highest possible clinical and professional standards. The postholder will be a member of the Professional Alliance of Health and Social Care Practitioners.

Main duties of the job

The post holder provides leadership in respect of the key professional areas for practitioners
within service level teams and will focus on the following key areas:

Community Nursing

Extra Care Housing

Social Care Home Help

Palliative Care

Adult Physical Disability

Frailty Team

Adult Safeguarding

Rapid Response and
Reablement

Adult Social Work

Respite and Sitting Service

Social Care Community
Carers

Tissue Viability

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Minimum Qualification:
• Registered health or social care professional.
• Masters Degree in a related field.
• Leadership qualification or recognised programme.

Desirable

• Key Criteria:
• Excellent written skills with the ability to write reports and business cases for consideration by the Corporate Management Team/Committee.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to manage conflict.
• Proven leadership skills and experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Evidence of ongoing continuous professional development.
• Experience of managing complex services in a changing environment.
• Proven experience of quality, improvement, and governance.
• Experience of managing budgets and delivery of productivity and efficiency programmes.
• Good team member with a proven ability to lead, motivate, inspire, and support a multi-professional team.
• Ability to understand complex issues, problem solve and propose solutions.
• Personal and professional credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of others, including politicians, clinicians, managers, staff, service users and relatives.
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic to learn and develop further.
• The ability to evidence application of HSCs CARE Values in practice.
• To develop an in-depth understanding of customers whether they be internal, political or from the wider community and how they are affected by the service area and the wider public service.
• Create joined up strategies and plans that work together with other services across the organisation as appropriate to have the most positive impact and add value for service users.
• Seek and encourage ideas, improvements and measured risk taking within service area to improve outcomes.
• Create effective plans, systems, and governance to manage change and respond promptly to critical events.
• Build high performing teams aligned around common goals and devote dedicated time to supporting and empowering colleagues through coaching and mentoring and sharing expertise/knowledge.
• Understand the financial position of the service area, the organisation and the wider economy and recognise impacts of this when delivering services.
• Interpret a wide range of financial and management information and use financial data effectively in decisions.
• Develop robust business cases with fully costed options identifying clear policy advantages to assist decision making.
• Use service user insight to determine and drive outcomes and quality throughout the service area.
• Maintain a strong focus on priorities, holding others to account and respond appropriately to changing requirements.
• Promote resilience and responsiveness by being open and honest about challenges and the actions required to address unexpected developments.

Closing Date: 31 August 2026