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 looking for an exciting opportunity to join a large organisation working as part of a professional encouraging team?
Do you want to be part of a great organisation which has great additional benefits? Look no further!
This full-time role offers 15 hours per week, days to be determined.
Benefits:
- Paid holiday entitlement (plus Bank and Public Holidays)
- Free Parking
- Access to gym
- Local Amenities
Allowances:
- National Health Service Fixed Rate Regional Retention Allowance (RRA)
- Access to the NHS pension scheme
Main duties of the job
Defence Primary Health Care (DPHC) are looking for a dynamic, organised, and efficient Band 6 Practice Nurse who will be working within our Primary Health Care team at Lyneham.
As the successful candidate, you will work as part
of a multidisciplinary primary healthcare team, leading the delivery of primary
healthcare nursing including elements of occupational health.
Due to the nature of the business, it is essential that you have prior experience of
primary care. Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
for more information.
We are searching for someone who is able to
work unsupervised, providing high-quality nursing care to the medical facility
population at risk holding an individual case load, and through consultation
identify, assess, diagnose, and manage the care of patients with complex health
needs, minor injuries, minor illnesses, and specific diseases within their
level of competence.
Many of our practices are networked and linked to provide support to
each other. On occasion within your planned working schedule, you may be
requested to work at the linked practice site. In these situations, travel time
and cost will be allowed for.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
- Providing specialist high-quality person-centred primary care which always considers peoples safety, privacy and dignity using high quality clinical knowledge that is evidence based, with use of core healthcare guidelines.
- Being responsible for the delivery of appropriate treatment, screening, and advice to patients within their professional competence and in accordance with (DPHC) clinical guidelines and protocols
- Providing expert clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis, and decision-making skills.
- Providing safe, evidence-based, efficient, and individualised patient care
- Undertaking preventative health programmes such as travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry.
- Undertaking technical nursing treatments and procedures for patients complex,specialist healthcare needs (e.g., wound care, sutures removal, Electrocardiograms (ECGs), Cytology, Audiometry, Ear Care)
- Providing assistance to the Senior Medical Officer performing minor surgery
- Providing specialist advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following assessment, diagnosis and through treatment
Please see the Job description and Person specification for full details.
Selection process:
At application stage you will be assessed again the following:
- The selection at sift stage will be based only on your CV
- Candidates will be required to provide details to include job history and previous skills and experience.
- 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.
At interview you will be assessed again the following:
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHS Core NHSC6 Equality and Diversity
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB3 Protection of Health & Wellbeing
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK1 Information Processing
- NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK2 Information Collection & Analysis
- NHS General NHS G6 People Management.
The Interview will consist of Pre-planned Presentation of 20 mins, based on the areas in the KSF question will be shared with sifted candidates; and a Mix of direct questions and Clinical Situation based Scenarios.
Due to the high interest of these posts only the top 8 candidates that score over the quality line will be offered interviews.
To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
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.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
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.
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 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
- Providing specialist high-quality person-centred primary care which always considers peoples safety, privacy and dignity using high quality clinical knowledge that is evidence based, with use of core healthcare guidelines.
- Being responsible for the delivery of appropriate treatment, screening, and advice to patients within their professional competence and in accordance with (DPHC) clinical guidelines and protocols
- Providing expert clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis, and decision-making skills.
- Providing safe, evidence-based, efficient, and individualised patient care
- Undertaking preventative health programmes such as travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry.
- Undertaking technical nursing treatments and procedures for patients complex,specialist healthcare needs (e.g., wound care, sutures removal, Electrocardiograms (ECGs), Cytology, Audiometry, Ear Care)
- Providing assistance to the Senior Medical Officer performing minor surgery
- Providing specialist advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following assessment, diagnosis and through treatment
Please see the Job description and Person specification for full details.
Selection process:
At application stage you will be assessed again the following:
- The selection at sift stage will be based only on your CV
- Candidates will be required to provide details to include job history and previous skills and experience.
- 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.
At interview you will be assessed again the following:
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHS Core NHSC6 Equality and Diversity
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB3 Protection of Health & Wellbeing
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK1 Information Processing
- NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK2 Information Collection & Analysis
- NHS General NHS G6 People Management.
The Interview will consist of Pre-planned Presentation of 20 mins, based on the areas in the KSF question will be shared with sifted candidates; and a Mix of direct questions and Clinical Situation based Scenarios.
Due to the high interest of these posts only the top 8 candidates that score over the quality line will be offered interviews.
To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
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.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
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.
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 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.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experienced and competent in history taking and physical assessment and the triage & treatment of minor injury/illness. immunisation, venepuncture, ear care, audiology, travel medicine, wound care, cervical screening
- Experience of leading and promoting health and well-being clinics i.e. smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol misuse, sexual health
- Experience of providing care to patients with chronic illnesses e.g. Asthma, Family Planning, Diabetes, CHD and hypertension ensuring continued maintenance of the Chronic Disease Register (dependant on population at risk)
- Experience of having provided mentorship and/or coaching to other staff
- Evidenced of continuous professional development and the practical application of new skills to the work place
Desirable
- Minimum of 3 years post registration experience working within Primary Healthcare
- Experience in occupational health and military occupational health and musculoskeletal medicine
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- To be proficient in relevant Information technology (IT) systems subject to appropriate training being provided
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Quality improvement methodology or willingness to undertake training
- Registered non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake training
Provide your 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.
- Please use double spacing where possible
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse on sub-Part 1 (RN1/RN(A)) of the Nursing and Midwifery Council register
- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
Desirable
- Minimum of 3 years post registration experience working within Primary Healthcare
Behaviour Statement
Essential
- Have you been dismissed for gross misconduct relating to bullying, harassment, discrimination or victimisation from any role in the past five years, or resigned or otherwise left a role but would have been dismissed for such gross misconduct because of an adverse decision, had you continued in that employment?
- Please respond with Yes or No as appropriate.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experienced and competent in history taking and physical assessment and the triage & treatment of minor injury/illness. immunisation, venepuncture, ear care, audiology, travel medicine, wound care, cervical screening
- Experience of leading and promoting health and well-being clinics i.e. smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol misuse, sexual health
- Experience of providing care to patients with chronic illnesses e.g. Asthma, Family Planning, Diabetes, CHD and hypertension ensuring continued maintenance of the Chronic Disease Register (dependant on population at risk)
- Experience of having provided mentorship and/or coaching to other staff
- Evidenced of continuous professional development and the practical application of new skills to the work place
Desirable
- Minimum of 3 years post registration experience working within Primary Healthcare
- Experience in occupational health and military occupational health and musculoskeletal medicine
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- To be proficient in relevant Information technology (IT) systems subject to appropriate training being provided
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Quality improvement methodology or willingness to undertake training
- Registered non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake training
Provide your 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.
- Please use double spacing where possible
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse on sub-Part 1 (RN1/RN(A)) of the Nursing and Midwifery Council register
- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
Desirable
- Minimum of 3 years post registration experience working within Primary Healthcare
Behaviour Statement
Essential
- Have you been dismissed for gross misconduct relating to bullying, harassment, discrimination or victimisation from any role in the past five years, or resigned or otherwise left a role but would have been dismissed for such gross misconduct because of an adverse decision, had you continued in that employment?
- Please respond with Yes or No as appropriate.
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).
