Employee headcount in Health and Care Jersey

​Request ​762673884

Can you please provide a breakdown of headcount split by front line service provider role e.g. Nurse / Doctor / Surgeon versus those who fulfil an administration or management role e.g. not public facing. To highlight the growth in headcount for this essential service provision from January 1st 2020 to end of October 2025.

Response

The table below details the headcount for Health and Care Jersey (formerly Health and Community Services) as recorded for January 2020 and October 2025. Workforce figures are reported at month end. These are substantively employed staff and figures do not include contingent workers, temporary / contract / interim staff, or those employed on nil hours or zero hours basis.

As noted in previous Freedom of Information responses published to www.gov.je, Health and Care Jersey does not have dedicated management departments. It is a predominantly clinically-led organisation, with many teams led or managed by doctors, nurses and Allied Health Professionals, as relevant to the service area. Many of these roles involve time spent providing both frontline care and clinical leadership.

Workforce data do not group staff in the format requested, nor can records be filtered to distinguish between roles that are public-facing versus those that are not. Non-clinical managers, administrative and support staff are encompassed within the Civil Servant and Manual Worker pay groups. It is important to recognise that the Civil Servant pay group provides the default contract for health and care workers not in other groups and so includes many frontline roles, such as Allied Health Professionals, Pharmacists, Biomedical Scientists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and Social Workers.

Health and Care Jersey (HCJ) has seen an increase in the substantive employee headcount of 619 people from January 2020 to October 2025, as roles have been introduced to meet safer staffing requirements and other healthcare standards, and with the recent transfer into HCJ of Public Health, Health Policy and the States of Jersey Ambulance Service in 2025.

* Nurses and Midwives pay group includes Healthcare Assistants.

** Civil Servants pay group includes Allied Health Professionals, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, etcetera.

*** The following pay groups were amalgamated into ‘Workforce Modernisation’ in 2017:

• Ambulance (Paramedics, etcetera)
• Family Support Workers
• Residential Childcare Officers (RCCO’s)
• Youth Workers

Workforce Modernisation posts in the States of Jersey Ambulance Service were within Justice and Home Affairs in 2020, moving to Health and Care Jersey in 2025.

Workforce data is routinely reported in the Health and Care Jersey Advisory Board papers, published on www.gov.je:

Health and Care Jersey Services Board​​​