Job summary
Here at The Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), we are inclusive and dedicated, working to provide excellent support to our entitled personnel!
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor (ERI) to join the team here at Primary Care Rehabilitation Facility (PCRF) Royal Navy Health Centre (RNHC) HMS Drake, His Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Devonport, Plymouth.
The PCRF incorporates a multidisciplinary team made up of 9 Physiotherapists, 2 ERI, 1 Occupational Therapist and an Administration Officer. Rehabilitation care is delivered to the population at risk (PAR) of HMS Drake, utilising the rehabilitation facility within Endeavour Building. This purpose built facility incorporates a large rehabilitation gymnasium, with a wide range of physical training equipment and floor space for class based rehabilitation. Consulting rooms are utilised for 1-1 based assessment, with 25m swimming pool and dedicate hydrotherapy pool for aquatic therapy.
This is an opportunity for employment in a unique and sought after environment, with the opportunity for work with highly motivated colleagues and patients. The work undertaken at within PCRF forms part of the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Plan, that links to regional rehabilitation services and those provided at the Defence National Rehabilitation Centre, Stanford Hall.
We offer the following employee benefits:
- Inclusive working environment
- Learning and development opportunities
- Free parking
- Access to the gym
Main duties of the job
This is a permanent, full time position offering 37.5 hours per week.
The successful candidate will sustain and improve the training and
operational effectiveness of injured Service personnel by provision of
high-quality targeted rehabilitation, accelerating their return to optimal
physical capacity, whilst influencing their psychological and social health.
You will work within the Primary Care Rehabilitation Facility
(PCRF) to provide a high standard of exercise-based rehabilitation including
highly specialist work in the Musculoskeletal/sports and training injury area
for the Population At Risk (PAR), meeting Standards for Better Health by using
a multidisciplinary approach.
Does this sound of interest to you? If so, we would love to hear from you!
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 will included, but are not limited to:
- Performing appropriate clinical assessments and to design and implement safe and progressive exercise treatment schedules for all patients after the Medical Officer /Physiotherapist/Clinical Team Manager has made a diagnosis.
- Communicating effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for treatment, good understanding of their conditions and maximize their rehabilitation potential.
- Facilitating effective communication and co-operation with all other departmental/Unit and external medical personnel from other agencies/units.
- Ensuring that high standards of confidentiality, recording, filing and storage of patient notes and statistical information are achieved and maintained In accordance with (iaw) local policy.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
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 expenses for the interview.
Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
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 note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form. Please make sure no personal details are included.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed
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.
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 selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Technical Skills:
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core- NHSC5- Health and Well Being
- HWB6 - Assessment & Treatment Planning NHS Health & Wellbeing
- HWB7 - Interventions & Treatment
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 contactdbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties will included, but are not limited to:
- Performing appropriate clinical assessments and to design and implement safe and progressive exercise treatment schedules for all patients after the Medical Officer /Physiotherapist/Clinical Team Manager has made a diagnosis.
- Communicating effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for treatment, good understanding of their conditions and maximize their rehabilitation potential.
- Facilitating effective communication and co-operation with all other departmental/Unit and external medical personnel from other agencies/units.
- Ensuring that high standards of confidentiality, recording, filing and storage of patient notes and statistical information are achieved and maintained In accordance with (iaw) local policy.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
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 expenses for the interview.
Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.
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 note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form. Please make sure no personal details are included.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed
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.
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 selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Technical Skills:
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core- NHSC5- Health and Well Being
- HWB6 - Assessment & Treatment Planning NHS Health & Wellbeing
- HWB7 - Interventions & Treatment
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 contactdbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Graduate in Sports Rehabilitation and have full Graduate Membership of the British Association of Sports Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT).
- Or
- BSc Graduate in Sports Therapy and maintain Full Graduate Membership of the Society of Sports Therapy (SST).
- Or
- Ex-military ERIs who have completed the MOD JSSERI Course. Where an ex-military ERI is employed within the Civil Service, they must have completed a return to clinical practice, prior to employment or within the first three months of employment
Experience
Essential
- Able to work autonomously guided by codes of practice and guidelines.
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.
Registration details
Essential
- Please provide your membership registration number.
- You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
- Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Graduate in Sports Rehabilitation and have full Graduate Membership of the British Association of Sports Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT).
- Or
- BSc Graduate in Sports Therapy and maintain Full Graduate Membership of the Society of Sports Therapy (SST).
- Or
- Ex-military ERIs who have completed the MOD JSSERI Course. Where an ex-military ERI is employed within the Civil Service, they must have completed a return to clinical practice, prior to employment or within the first three months of employment
Experience
Essential
- Able to work autonomously guided by codes of practice and guidelines.
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.
Registration details
Essential
- Please provide your membership registration number.
- You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
- Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
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.
