Job summary
At the Department of Community Mental Health Central & Wessex we are looking for a Band 6 Civilian Mental Health Practitioner with clinical commitment and excellent team focus, who can adapt to a new organisational culture whilst adhering to the highest standards of professional practice. If you are seeking a new challenge and would like to add military mental healthcare to your career portfolio, this could be the role for you!
This post is located at DCMH Bulford, Wiltshire and is a full-time position offering 37.5 hrs per week. We support a variety of working patterns and aim to help you achieve a good work-life balance.
Employee benefits include:
- NHS Pension
- Free parking
- Access to gym
- Inclusive working environment
Main duties of the job
You will be joining us at an exciting time of change for military mental health service delivery.
DCMH are multi-disciplinary teams comprising military and civilian professional staff. You'll work mainly with complex clinical presentations but also be able to apply and develop your own areas of clinical expertise and interest.
For further duties, please ensure you read the attached Job Description and Person
Specification.
About us
Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.
Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.
If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Mental Health Practitioner will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team MDT to provide a specialised/occupational mental health service for all Service and entitled personnel within the Department of Community Mental Health DCMH area of responsibility (AOR) and the Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) Region as required.
Providing flexible and individualised care packages to meet the mental health needs of military personnel with mental health problems.
Selection Process Details
The selection at sift stage will be based on your application. At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Skills:
- NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB2-Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB6-Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB7-Interventions & Treatment
- NHS General-NHS G6-People Management
- NHS Information & Knowledge-NHS IK1-Information Processing
Please ensure the required skills, qualifications and memberships are demonstrated in your application.
Additional information
To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date and interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment by 31st December 2022. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
If you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivperssgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. For more information copy and paste the following in to your browser or search gov.uk: Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Mental Health Practitioner will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team MDT to provide a specialised/occupational mental health service for all Service and entitled personnel within the Department of Community Mental Health DCMH area of responsibility (AOR) and the Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) Region as required.
Providing flexible and individualised care packages to meet the mental health needs of military personnel with mental health problems.
Selection Process Details
The selection at sift stage will be based on your application. At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Skills:
- NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB2-Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB6-Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing-HWB7-Interventions & Treatment
- NHS General-NHS G6-People Management
- NHS Information & Knowledge-NHS IK1-Information Processing
Please ensure the required skills, qualifications and memberships are demonstrated in your application.
Additional information
To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date and interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment by 31st December 2022. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
If you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivperssgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. For more information copy and paste the following in to your browser or search gov.uk: Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans
Person Specification
Registrations and Memberships
Essential
- Registered with one the following regulatory bodies: NMC, HCPC
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse or graduate level professional with background in mental health; substantial post-qualification training and experience in at least 2 evidence based psychological therapies and accredited or eligible for accreditation from a recognised body (BABCP,BACP, UKCP)
- OR:
- Registered Mental Health Nurse with a demonstrable experience working at Band 5 or above.
- - Experience of working in a Community Mental Health setting.
- - Demonstrable experience of using NICE recommended Psychological interventions.
- OR:
- - Must possess a Postgraduate/Graduate certificate in evidence based psychological treatments with demonstrable experience in a community mental health role.
Person Specification
Registrations and Memberships
Essential
- Registered with one the following regulatory bodies: NMC, HCPC
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse or graduate level professional with background in mental health; substantial post-qualification training and experience in at least 2 evidence based psychological therapies and accredited or eligible for accreditation from a recognised body (BABCP,BACP, UKCP)
- OR:
- Registered Mental Health Nurse with a demonstrable experience working at Band 5 or above.
- - Experience of working in a Community Mental Health setting.
- - Demonstrable experience of using NICE recommended Psychological interventions.
- OR:
- - Must possess a Postgraduate/Graduate certificate in evidence based psychological treatments with demonstrable experience in a community mental health role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
