Band 7 Occupational Health Clinician

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

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Job summary

Here at Defence Primary Health Care DPHC, we are inclusive and dedicated, working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel!

We are looking to recruit a dynamic, organised and hardworking Band 7 Occupational Health Clinician who will be working within our Regional Occupational Health team at Vimy Barracks, Catterick Garrison.

Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

Benefits

A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A NHS Service pension
Access coffee shop.
Access to the Vickery club run by the Salvation Army.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be supporting the delivery of a peripatetic occupational health service within an area of responsibility. The post holder will provide specialist, person-centred care which considers safety, privacy and dignity using advanced clinical knowledge.

This role is offered at 37.5 hours per week. Requests to work flexibly will be considered but must fit with the business needs.

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.

Date posted

11 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year (pro rata for part time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Reference number

K0003-23-0420

Job locations

Vimy Barracks

Catterick Garrison

North Yorkshire

DL9 3PS

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Supportingthe delivery of a peripatetic occupational health (OH) service within an area of responsibility.
Providing specialist, person-centred care which considers safety, privacy and dignity using advanced clinical knowledge.
The post holder will be accountable and responsible for providing a proactive, evidence based OH service
Delivering OH care for the Defence service population, liaising with the chain of command (CoC), single services (sS) and other specialist Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) pillars.
Supporting change, monitor and improve clinical standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research, and education thus maximising OH outputs and optimising Service Personnels (SP) employability / deployability.
The post holder will work in support of Commander (Comd) Defence Healthcare Recovery Group (DHRG) to manage OH services in support of the population at risk within DPHC.

For full information on the job roles please refer to the attached Terms of Reference.

Selection Process:

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV.

At the interview stage we'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
NHS General NHS G6 People Management

Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships ,making sure that any reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting your application.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview

Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this). If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

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.

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 startdate.

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.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application

We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into 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.

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 as of 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.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative,Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

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 to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.