Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
- Manage 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.
- To lead with change, monitor and improve clinical standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research, and education thus maximising OH outputs and optimising SP employability / deploy ability.
- Develop and teach OH staff, encouraging teamwork, and create an environment in which clinical practice is fostered, evaluated, and disseminated.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based protocols, standards, policies, and clinical guidelines through interpreting and synthesising information from a variety of sources and promoting their use in practice.
- Monitor the effectiveness of all clinical practices through the quality assurance strategies, such as the use of audit and peer review.
- Actively support and where required, lead with achieving quality targets within the Healthcare Assurance Framework (HAF) and all other assurance activities.
- Deliver complex, specialist OH interventions (such as, implement and monitor Return to Work (RTW) plans), collaboratively with the service personnel, wider clinical team and the CoC.
- Monitor staffing levels proactively to ensure sufficiently skilled, experienced, and qualified members of the team are available during operating hours. Escalate shortfalls and enact business resilience planning as required.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties.
Selection Process:
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV.
- Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
- To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
At interview, you will be tested against the following Framework:
- NHS Core - NHSC1 - Communication
- NHS Core - NHSC2 - Personal & People Development
- NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB2 - Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB7 - Interventions & Treatment
- NHS General - NHS G6 - People Management
- You will also be required to provide a short presentation no longer than 5 minutes, with the title of 'The value of work on health and recovery'
When choosing your Technical Skills examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences.
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 sift will be completed within 10 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.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
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.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts. this is needed because the benefits list that professional registration fees are currently reimbursed, which classifies as an allowance.
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 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. 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.
This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative,service-agreat-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-SGDMSResourcing@mod.gov.uk
For details on our complaints procedure, please refer to the attached Important Information.
