Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
- Receiving, appraising, and advising on the direct referrals for mental health problems from relevant General Practitioners/Medical Officers (GP/MO).
- Providing initial assessment and formulation of the mental health and treatment needs for referred patients, planning, implementing, and evaluating care with a high level of autonomy.
- Delivering up to date, evidence-based interventions for mental health problems based on guidance from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Treatment Agency (NTA), which can include individual, group and tele-therapy.
- Ability to carry out comprehensive mental health assessments and make decisions about ways to positively manage risk.
- Ability to devise creative and effective care packages of support for adult mental health, communicating effectively with clients/patients and professionals, both orally and in writing.
- Effective time management skills with the ability to work under pressure, planning own workload.
- Ability to work flexibly in response to the developing needs of the service.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for role requirements in further detail.
To be eligible to be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
Selection Process
At application stage you will be assessed against the
following:
CV:
Please ensure you demonstrate
that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and
memberships in your CV and that you have saved it, making sure that any
reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting
your application.
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your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.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.
https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/artificial-intelligence-and-recruitment/
At interview you will be assessed against the
following:
Technical Skills:
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2
Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6
Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7
Interventions & Treatment
- NHS Information & Knowledge
NHS IK1 Information Processing
A short case study will be required, the case study
will be provided 10 minutes before the interview.
Please see 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/watch?v=YEpdNWKQSRI
NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework https://www.msg.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/KSF-Handbook.pdf
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.
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.
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.
