Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Band 7 Occupational Health Clinician

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Job summary

Here at Defence Primary Health Care DPHC, we are inclusive and dedicated, working to provide excellent care to our entitled service personnel.

The Royal Navy Occupational Health Service (RNOHS) is looking to appoint a dynamic, organised and enthusiastic and experienced Band 7 Occupational Health Clinician who has the personality and character to motivate and support team members to achieve desired results. You will need to be committed to service delivery and improvement, have effective decision-making skills, and the ability to communicate at all levels.

This position offers 37.5 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:

Free Parking
Access to Gym and Swimming Pool
On site Costa Coffee, Greggs and Convenience Shop
Access to NHS Pension
A Culture Encouraging Inclusion and Diversity

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide delivery of a peripatetic Occupational Health (OH) service which requires travel between base location and assigned units. The majority clinical activity is delivered face to face in the Service Person (SP)s workplace / military environment or a clinic setting, therefore often requiring travel.

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.

Date posted

23 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year Per Annum (pro rata for part time) *Pay award pending

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Reference number

K0003-24-0154

Job locations

HMS Drake

Devonport

Plymouth

PL2 2BG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:

Managing own clinical caseload and proactively support the Service Person (SP) through their clinical pathway in accordance to best practice, current legislation, and Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) policy.
Establishing and maintaining positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members, characterised by trust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication.
Maintaining high ethical standards both personally and professionally, showing integrity, reliability, and trustworthiness.
Ensuring patient safety and confidentiality is maintained and meets Strategic Command (Strat Com) and Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) policy and guidance.
Undertaking clinical evaluation and audit and use evidence-based practice and published research, to evaluate and enhance OH intervention.

Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.

Selection

The selection at sift stage will be based on your application, please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications, and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

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 Technical Skills during the selection process:

NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
G6 People Management

At Interview, you will be required to do a short presentation.

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. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence 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.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments

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.