Job summary
Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), we are inclusive and dedicated, working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel!
We are looking for an Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our welcoming team of dedicated military and civilian healthcare professionals and administrative staff located at the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Healthcare Centre, Tidworth.
This part time position offers 17.5 hours per week.
Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Benefits Include:
- Free Parking
- Access to gym (which can be during the working day if it fits working hours)
- Fortnightly In-Service Training and CPD time, AND quarterly Regional In-Service Training
- Support by the Team Lead in your personal and clinical development
- Opportunities to develop the Service
- Study leave allocation
- Excellent rehab setting and facilities to maximise your autonomous Evidence-Based Practice input with patients
- Local Amenities
- Access to NHS Pension
- A large friendly, motivated and experienced team
- A culture encouraging Inclusion and Diversity
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be giving full support to the Line Manager in ensuring the provision of a comprehensive and
professional physiotherapy/rehabilitation service for entitled personnel. This will include undertaking
highly skilled and specialist work in the musculo-skeletal/sports and training injury area including
group therapy.
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
Duties and
responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
- Providing a high standard of physiotherapy delivery to Service personnel including highly
specialist interventions in the muscular-skeletal/sports and training injury environment.
- Performing highly skilled physiotherapeutic assessment of patients referred by the Medical
Officer (MO) or regional physiotherapy teams. Presentations may be diverse including complex
and acute/chronic physical and psychological conditions plus sports injuries. To use clinical
reasoning skills to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis.
- Managing and prioritising own clinical caseload efficiently and effectively.
- Communicating effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for treatment, good
understanding of their conditions and maximise their rehabilitation potential. Patients may have
barriers to communication e.g. English as their second language.
- Formulating, developing and delivering a specialised individualised treatment programme based upon
evidence based practice, manual assessment and appropriate clinical reasoning.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and
Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
Selection Process Details
The sift will be
completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be
held on a date to be confirmed. There will be no reimbursement for any travel
for interview.
At interview, you
will be tested against the following NHS Technical Skills:
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB5 Provision of Care
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
- NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK1 Information Processing
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.
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.
Access to the NHS
pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It 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 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and
responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
- Providing a high standard of physiotherapy delivery to Service personnel including highly
specialist interventions in the muscular-skeletal/sports and training injury environment.
- Performing highly skilled physiotherapeutic assessment of patients referred by the Medical
Officer (MO) or regional physiotherapy teams. Presentations may be diverse including complex
and acute/chronic physical and psychological conditions plus sports injuries. To use clinical
reasoning skills to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis.
- Managing and prioritising own clinical caseload efficiently and effectively.
- Communicating effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for treatment, good
understanding of their conditions and maximise their rehabilitation potential. Patients may have
barriers to communication e.g. English as their second language.
- Formulating, developing and delivering a specialised individualised treatment programme based upon
evidence based practice, manual assessment and appropriate clinical reasoning.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and
Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
Selection Process Details
The sift will be
completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be
held on a date to be confirmed. There will be no reimbursement for any travel
for interview.
At interview, you
will be tested against the following NHS Technical Skills:
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB5 Provision of Care
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
- NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK1 Information Processing
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.
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.
Access to the NHS
pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It 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 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (MCSP).
- State registered Physiotherapist Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (MCSP).
- State registered Physiotherapist Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
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).
