Pat Le Masurier

Pat Le Masurier has been a Council Member since July 2018.

Pat was born and educated in Lancashire.

Before moving to Jersey, she was a fully-Home Office-trained Prison Officer, and served in every type of women's prison, with all the famous and infamous prisoners of the 1960s.
She moved to Jersey in 1973, specifically for a job as Deputy Matron at Elizabeth House in La Chasse, which at that time was a hostel for women and children who were temporarily homeless or destitute for any reason. The hostel welcomed an eclectic mix, from ten-days to 90 years-old, and the role was live-in, with long, unsocial hours, seven days a week. When she got married, Pat moved to St Helier House as Deputy Matron.

During her career, Pat’s other jobs included working in the Probate Department at Mourant du Feu and Jeune, and at La Moye Prison as the Farms and Gardens Officer's secretary, before retiring as secretary to two heads of departments at the General Hospital.

Since moving to the Island, Pat has been involved in many charitable, voluntary committees. Among those, she helped set up Jersey SANDS group with the then Chaplain of the General Hospital, and set up the Jersey LIFE group, having gained a Diploma in Counselling through the Jersey Youth Service while volunteering in youth clubs.

She said that her vast voluntary work has been to ‘help others and try and improve their quality of life, in one way or another’.