Job summary
Here at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation centre (DMRC), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care ti our entitled personnel.
Are you an Assistant Clinical Psychologist looking for a fascinating role working alongside the military that offers numerous benefits and opportunities for career-development in a phenomenal team?
The DMRC is a fast paced and vibrant organisation that seeks to sustain and improve efficiency of injured service personnel by providing high quality psychological care.
This post will be 34 hours over a 5 day week
Does this sound like the role for you?
We offer the following employee benefits:
- Free Parking
- Access to a gym
- Access to a swimming pool
- Wonderful grounds
- Onsite cash machine and shop
- An inclusive working environment
- An NHS pension
Main duties of the job
DMRC provides medical rehabilitation for patients with complex needs who may have sustained multiple
injuries; this includes neurological injury and complex trauma. In addition, the Centres of Spinal and Upper
Quadrant, Lower Limb and Specialist Rehabilitation provide the consultant led multidisciplinary management
at secondary care level.
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 of the role include but are not limited to:
- Providing a specialist psychology service for all clients of the service
- Providing specialist clinical supervision to staff delivering formal psychological therapies, such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Providing training to staff within the service involved in the delivery of psychologically based interventions.
- Participating in local management groups and being responsible for service development for aspects of psychological care.
Please pay particular attention to the attached job description and person specification which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
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 no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Technical Skill:
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
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.
Please see the link to our Youtube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit.
Defence Medical Services - YouTube (Please copy and paste the link into your browser)
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.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
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 post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.
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. 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 of the role include but are not limited to:
- Providing a specialist psychology service for all clients of the service
- Providing specialist clinical supervision to staff delivering formal psychological therapies, such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Providing training to staff within the service involved in the delivery of psychologically based interventions.
- Participating in local management groups and being responsible for service development for aspects of psychological care.
Please pay particular attention to the attached job description and person specification which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
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 no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Technical Skill:
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
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.
Please see the link to our Youtube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit.
Defence Medical Services - YouTube (Please copy and paste the link into your browser)
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.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
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 post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.
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. 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
- Upper second-class honours degree or higher in Psychology
- Eligibility for Graduate Membership of British Psychological Society (BPS)
Provide a CV
Essential
- Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question- you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
- Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of delivering structured therapy programmes (practical working knowledge of at least one relevant psychological approach e.g Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Practical experience working on audit or evaluation projects within a healthcare setting.
- Previous experience as an assistant psychologist or working under supervision of qualified psychologist
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Upper second-class honours degree or higher in Psychology
- Eligibility for Graduate Membership of British Psychological Society (BPS)
Provide a CV
Essential
- Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question- you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
- Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
Experience
Desirable
- Experience of delivering structured therapy programmes (practical working knowledge of at least one relevant psychological approach e.g Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Practical experience working on audit or evaluation projects within a healthcare setting.
- Previous experience as an assistant psychologist or working under supervision of qualified psychologist
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.
