Job summary
We are looking for a dynamic, organised and enthusiastic Civilian Medical Practitioner (CMP) to join our primary health care team at RAF Honington. There may be a requirement to support the PAR at RAF Marham and Woodbridge as part of the Valiant Combined Practice.
Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC) provide a unique blend of traditional team based primary care and occupational health support to military personnel. DPHC also has a strong emphasis on education with numerous opportunities to train military medics, nurses, and Doctors.
This position offers 37 hours per week. The salary will be pro rata where the part time hours are undertaken and applications for part time or job share to cover these hours are welcome.
Does this sound like the role for you?
Benefits Include:
- On-site Free Parking
- Access to Gym
- Access to Pay-As-You-Dine Facilities
- Access to Civil Service Pension
- A Culture Encouraging Inclusion and Diversity
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide primary and occupational Healthcare in line with General Medical Council
(GMC) Standards to ensure that the organisational and Principal/Senior Medical Officer's
objectives are achieved to optimise patient care. The post holder may be required to cover
other facilities within the network/combined practice group as required.
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 general healthcare to all registered patients during normal practice hours.
- Maximising the levels of health, wellbeing and employability of Service personnel to
ensure the needs of the single Services are met.
- Undertaking mandatory medical examinations and provide appropriate occupational
healthcare and advice, and all supporting administrative duties.
- Supervising the management of communicable diseases, including
monitoring and reporting through single Service chains.
- Representing the Primary Medical Officer (PMO)/ Senior Medical Officer (SMO) on
Medical Practice related issues where necessary, including participation in unit health
committees where appropriate.
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.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
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. You will need to copy and paste the link into a browser.
Defence Medical Services - YouTube
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.
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 general healthcare to all registered patients during normal practice hours.
- Maximising the levels of health, wellbeing and employability of Service personnel to
ensure the needs of the single Services are met.
- Undertaking mandatory medical examinations and provide appropriate occupational
healthcare and advice, and all supporting administrative duties.
- Supervising the management of communicable diseases, including
monitoring and reporting through single Service chains.
- Representing the Primary Medical Officer (PMO)/ Senior Medical Officer (SMO) on
Medical Practice related issues where necessary, including participation in unit health
committees where appropriate.
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.
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
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. You will need to copy and paste the link into a browser.
Defence Medical Services - YouTube
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.
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
- Registered General Practitioner.
- Certificate of Prescribed Equivalent Experience or Statement of Acquired Rights (now known as CCT) from the Joint Committee in Post Graduate Training in General Practice (JCPGT(GP)).
- Current GMC registration: with a license to practice on the GP register.
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.
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
- Registered General Practitioner.
- Certificate of Prescribed Equivalent Experience or Statement of Acquired Rights (now known as CCT) from the Joint Committee in Post Graduate Training in General Practice (JCPGT(GP)).
- Current GMC registration: with a license to practice on the GP register.
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.
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.
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).
