Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Band 7 Nurse Manager

The closing date is 29 July 2025

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 a Band 7 Nurse Manager looking for a captivating role, working alongside the military, that offers numerous benefits and opportunities for career-development in a phenomenal team? if so, then we would love to hear from you!

This is a full time role, offering 37.5 hours per week, working as part of the Cosford Medical Facility based at RAF Cosford DCAE, Albrighton .There may be requirements to support other DPHC sites where there is a business need for them to do so. This will be within a reasonable travelling distance defined in MoD policy.

We offer the following employee benefits:

Free Parking
Restaurant
Starbucks
convenience store
Access to Gym membership
Inclusive Working Environment
Learning and development opportunities

Main duties of the job

To provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care
To work autonomously using advanced levels of history taking and examination skills within multi-disciplinary team, guidelines, and protocols. Utilise advanced clinical skills in assessment and/or formulate a diagnosis and/or treatment plan
To triage urgent care requests if required, consulting with patients or directing them appropriately.

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 youve 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 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pro-rata, pay award pending

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Reference number

K0003-25-0343

Job locations

Cosford Medical Facility

RAF Cosford DCAE

Albrighton

Wolverhampton

WV7 3EX

Job description

Job responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Working as part of a multidisciplinary primary healthcare team delivering advance primary healthcare nursing including elements of occupational health.
Will be the leading nurse within the medical facility (MF) and will be expected to be the focal point for Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) nursing issues.
Be able to work unsupervised and provide nursing care to the MFs population at risk.
To lead and promote health and well-being clinics using health promotion, health education, screening, and therapeutic communication skills (i.e., smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol misuse, sexual health, and cervical screening).
To manage the development of plans to meet the health needs of patients including diagnostic tests, treatment plans, health promotion and prevention

It is important that you read the attached job description and person specification prior to applying to fully understand all the duties required.

Selection Process:

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

The Selection at sift stage will be based on your cv application, once copied, and pasted onto your application, Ensure you prove that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your cv.
Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

At interview stage you will be assessed against the following:

Technical Skills:

NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK2 Information Collection & Analysis
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
NHS Core NHS6 Equality and Diversity

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.

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

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.

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.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

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 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.

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 contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcing@mod.gov.uk.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

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.