Job summary
Are you an experienced musculoskeletal physiotherapist looking for an exciting and rewarding role in the East of England? This is a phenomenal new opportunity to become a full-time Band 7 Advanced Physiotherapist, working with a multi-disciplinary Sports and Exercise Medicine (SEM) team. You will work alongside an SEM Consultant and a Band 7 Podiatrist, leading with clinical and healthcare governance, providing outstanding care pathway management for military personnel. The working environment is welcoming, inclusive and supportive, and you will be valued for the skills you bring!
Although this role is based in RAF Honington, you will be an integral and integrated member of Colchester RRU. You will occasionally travel to Colchester for training, HR and to support the services there. You will have opportunities to visit the 13 primary care rehabilitation facilities (PCRFs) that refer into the RRU specialist services, and you will work closely with the lead physiotherapists at these PCRFs, ensuring patients are on optimal care pathways.
This full-time position offers the successful candidate 37.5 working hours per week. Requests to work flexibly and or part time may be considered, taking into account business needs.
We offer the following employee benefits:
- NHS pension
- Inclusive work environment
- Access to gym, swimming pool & squash courts
- Car park with disability access
- Shop and canteen
Main duties of the job
Our patients are from diverse military populations and present with an
interesting mix of sports and training injuries, trauma, as well as
occupational and medical aches and pains. The team uses evidence-informed
practice, with clinical reasoning to provide efficient care for service
personnel. Returning personnel to full fitness, and improving their well-being
is our ultimate aim. You will be a key part of this effort, referring into our
course team of Band 6 physiotherapists and Exercise Rehabilitation Instructors.
You will be managed by the military OC at Colchester RRU, and be
supported to develop your clinical, managerial and professional leadership
skills, as well as gain wider insight and understanding of military healthcare.
You will access regular CPD, as well as experiences and insights into Defence
that are captivating, unique and informative. You will have opportunities to be
involved in national innovative quality improvement projects, striving to
continually provide the very best rehabilitation service to our military
personnel.
You will triage, assess, diagnosis and plan onward care pathways for
injured service personnel referred to the RRU. Liaison with physiotherapists
and medical officers in our area of responsibility (AOR) and other stakeholders
outside the RRUs AOR.Assuring the provision of a comprehensive and professional
rehabilitation service for entitled personnel.
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 include but are not limited to:
- Acting as the
musculoskeletal clinical rehabilitation specialist within the RRU
Multi-Disciplinary Injury Assessment Clinic (MIAC).
- Diagnostic
assessments of patients referred to the RRU from across Defence Healthcare.
This will include diverse, complex, multiple, acute and chronic physical and
psychological conditions, sports and training injuries.
- Using clinical
reasoning skills to provide appropriate care pathway plans.
- Assisting the
MIAC consultant in appropriately referring patients for clinical imaging and
secondary care, in line with national and local guidelines.
- Providing
comprehensive progress and discharge reports to colleagues and referring
clinicians.
For further
information of duties and responsibilities please see full job description and
person specification attached.
The selection
at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested
against the following Technical Skills:
- NHS Core
NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core
NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core
NHSC5 Quality
- NHS Health
& Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Health
& Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
Please ensure
you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience,
qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
Further Information:
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.
Please note
the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
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 copy
and paste 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. 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.
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.
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.
This vacancy
is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative,
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans
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.
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 ofall tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Acting as the
musculoskeletal clinical rehabilitation specialist within the RRU
Multi-Disciplinary Injury Assessment Clinic (MIAC).
- Diagnostic
assessments of patients referred to the RRU from across Defence Healthcare.
This will include diverse, complex, multiple, acute and chronic physical and
psychological conditions, sports and training injuries.
- Using clinical
reasoning skills to provide appropriate care pathway plans.
- Assisting the
MIAC consultant in appropriately referring patients for clinical imaging and
secondary care, in line with national and local guidelines.
- Providing
comprehensive progress and discharge reports to colleagues and referring
clinicians.
For further
information of duties and responsibilities please see full job description and
person specification attached.
The selection
at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested
against the following Technical Skills:
- NHS Core
NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core
NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core
NHSC5 Quality
- NHS Health
& Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Health
& Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
Please ensure
you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience,
qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
Further Information:
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.
Please note
the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
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 copy
and paste 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. 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.
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.
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.
This vacancy
is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative,
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans
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.
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 ofall tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. 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.
Person Specification
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.
Experience
Essential
- Consistent background in musculoskeletal injury management and / or Sports and Exercise Medicine.
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.
Memberships and Registrations
Essential
- Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered Physiotherapist. Your application will not progress, if you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate Master of Science (MSc) / Level 7 equivalent postgraduate qualification or evidence of actively working towards one.
Person Specification
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.
Experience
Essential
- Consistent background in musculoskeletal injury management and / or Sports and Exercise Medicine.
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.
Memberships and Registrations
Essential
- Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registered Physiotherapist. Your application will not progress, if you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate Master of Science (MSc) / Level 7 equivalent postgraduate qualification or evidence of actively working towards one.
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).
