Job summary
Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an
inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our
entitled personnel.
Are you a motivated individual who strives to
deliver excellent healthcare?
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join
a large organisation working as part of a professional encouraging team?
Do you want to be part of a great organisation
which has great additional benefits? Look no further!
Defence
Primary Health Care (DPHC) Central and Wessex region are looking for a dynamic,
organised, and efficient Band 3 Healthcare Assistant who will be working
within our Primary Health Care team at Larkhill Medical Centre, Salisbury.
Larkhill is a mixed Practice that meets the needs of
both Serving personnel and their families. The patient population is in the
region of 4600.
This is a part time role consisting of 15 hours per
week.
Benefits
- An NHS Pension
- Free parking
- Access to a gym
- Inclusive working environment
Main duties of the job
As the successful candidate, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary primary healthcare team, supporting the delivery of primary healthcare nursing including elements of occupational health.
Due to the nature of the business, it would be beneficial if you have prior experience of primary care.
We are searching for someone who is able to work unsupervised, providing high-quality nursing care to the medical facility population at risk holding an individual case load, and through consultation identify, assess, and manage the care of patients with complex health needs, minor injuries, minor illnesses, and specific diseases within their level of competence.
Many of our practices are networked and linked to provide support to each other. On occasion within your planned working schedule, you may be requested to work at the linked practice site. In these situations, travel time and cost will be allowed for.
Training and preceptorship will be provided to enable you to develop in your role.
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 high-quality person-centred primary care which always considers peoples safety, privacy and dignity using high quality clinical knowledge that is evidence based, with use of core healthcare guidelines as delegated by a registered practitioner.
- Being responsible for the delivery of appropriate treatment, screening, and advice to patients within their professional competence and in accordance with (DPHC) clinical guidelines and protocols
- Undertaking and assisting with preventative health programmes such as travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry, 24hr Blood Pressure monitoring and weight management.
- Undertaking technical nursing treatments and procedures for patients complex/specialist healthcare needs (e.g., wound care, sutures removal, Electrocardiograms (ECGs), Audiometry,)
- Providing assistance to the Senior Medical Officer performing minor surgery
- Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care as delegated, prioritising own workload, and ensuring effective time management strategies are embedded in own practice.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for additional job duties and responsibilities.
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 interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework:
- NHS Core NHSC1 - Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 - Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC5 - Quality
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 - Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 - Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB5 - Provision of Care
Further information relating to the KSF Competencies
and levels can be found here: NHS KSF Development review process. If viewing this on NHS Jobs, you may need to copy and paste the following in to your browser: www.
scot.nhs.uk
The Interview will consist of a mix
of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios.
There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
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
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 note that if you are viewing this on NHS Jobs, you may need to copy and paste the following in to your browser: 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.
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.
This post does not offer any assistance
with relocation allowances.
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 high-quality person-centred primary care which always considers peoples safety, privacy and dignity using high quality clinical knowledge that is evidence based, with use of core healthcare guidelines as delegated by a registered practitioner.
- Being responsible for the delivery of appropriate treatment, screening, and advice to patients within their professional competence and in accordance with (DPHC) clinical guidelines and protocols
- Undertaking and assisting with preventative health programmes such as travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry, 24hr Blood Pressure monitoring and weight management.
- Undertaking technical nursing treatments and procedures for patients complex/specialist healthcare needs (e.g., wound care, sutures removal, Electrocardiograms (ECGs), Audiometry,)
- Providing assistance to the Senior Medical Officer performing minor surgery
- Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care as delegated, prioritising own workload, and ensuring effective time management strategies are embedded in own practice.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for additional job duties and responsibilities.
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 interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework:
- NHS Core NHSC1 - Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 - Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC5 - Quality
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 - Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 - Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB5 - Provision of Care
Further information relating to the KSF Competencies
and levels can be found here: NHS KSF Development review process. If viewing this on NHS Jobs, you may need to copy and paste the following in to your browser: www.
scot.nhs.uk
The Interview will consist of a mix
of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios.
There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
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
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 note that if you are viewing this on NHS Jobs, you may need to copy and paste the following in to your browser: 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.
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.
This post does not offer any assistance
with relocation allowances.
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
- Professional/clinical knowledge acquired through training to National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) level 3 Health and Social Care (or equivalent Diploma)
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.
- Please use double spacing where possible.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional/clinical knowledge acquired through training to National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) level 3 Health and Social Care (or equivalent Diploma)
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.
- Please use double spacing where possible.
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.
