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 Terms of Reference for the full list of duties.
Selection Process:
At application stage you will be assessed against only 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.
- Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Terms of Reference. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.
- 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'
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
