Job summary
At Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel.
Are you a Band 6 Practice Nurse looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military, with a better quality of life, no nights and no
weekends, which offers numerous benefits and opportunities? If the answer is yes, then we are looking to appoint a professional and patient focused individual with a strong commitment to providing a high quality service to work within our friendly and welcoming team at the Bassingbourn Barracks Medical Centre, Royston.There may be
occasions when you are required to provide cover at other facilities
within the Combined Practice, including Chicksands and RAF Wyton, to
meet business needs.
This is a full time role offering 37.5 hours per week. Part-time candidates will be considered but due to service delivery requirements it must be on a job share basis as full-time hours need to be covered. The salary will be pro-rata where part-time hours are undertaken.
Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Benefits
As a valued member of the team you will receive access to outstanding rewards and employee benefits, including:
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
- Free on-site parking
- Access to the gym
- Pay as you dine facilities
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary primary healthcare team delivering primary healthcare nursing including elements of occupational health.
You will work with the Senior Practice Nurse or Senior Medical Officer within the medical facility (MF) and will be a focal point for Primary Healthcare nursing issues within area of practice.
You will hold an individual case load, and through consultation identify, assess and diagnose patients with complex health needs, minor injuries, minor illnesses and specific diseases within their level of competence.
Be responsible for the delivery of appropriate treatment, screening and advice to patients within their professional competence and in accordance with Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) clinical guidelines and protocols.
Provide 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.
The post holder will work closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team and will play an integral role in the operational/strategic development of the service.
The post holder will have line management, training and clinical supervision responsibilities for, junior practice nurses, Healthcare Assistants (HCA) and other members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT).
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 you've 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
The main duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
- Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective and individualised patient care.
- Manage the care of patients with chronic illnesses e.g. Asthma, Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and hypertension ensuring continued maintenance of the Chronic Disease Register.
- Undertake health and well-being clinics (e.g. smoking cessation, weight management,alcohol misuse) using health promotion, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills.
- Have direct responsibility for patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan
of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporate the issues and
recommendations made.
- Coordinate the development of plans to meet the health needs of patients including
diagnostic tests; treatment plans, health promotion and prevention.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Selection Process
The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
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 the CV section of the application form.
- 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:
NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS General NHS G6 People Management
The interview may consist of a mix of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios.
There
will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
Further Information
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.
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.
For details on our complaints procedure, please see attached Important Information document.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
- Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective and individualised patient care.
- Manage the care of patients with chronic illnesses e.g. Asthma, Diabetes, Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and hypertension ensuring continued maintenance of the Chronic Disease Register.
- Undertake health and well-being clinics (e.g. smoking cessation, weight management,alcohol misuse) using health promotion, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills.
- Have direct responsibility for patient caseload, ensuring all patients have an accurate plan
of care, which reflects the assessment undertaken and incorporate the issues and
recommendations made.
- Coordinate the development of plans to meet the health needs of patients including
diagnostic tests; treatment plans, health promotion and prevention.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
Selection Process
The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.
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 the CV section of the application form.
- 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:
NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB1 Promotion of Health & Wellbeing
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS General NHS G6 People Management
The interview may consist of a mix of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios.
There
will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.
Further Information
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.
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.
For details on our complaints procedure, please see attached Important Information document.
Person Specification
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.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working within Primary Healthcare.
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional and specialist knowledge in Primary Healthcare acquired through post graduate degree/ diploma or actively working towards this and can demonstrate equivalent level of competence and experience in clinical assessment and diagnosis.
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training.
Desirable
- Must be in date for Basic Life Support (BLS) Anaphylaxis, Automated External Defibrillation (AED) Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Safeguarding Level 3 (Children and Adult depending on population at risk) or willingness to undertake training.
- Registered non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake training.
Registrations and Memberships
Essential
- Registered nurse on Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register.
- Please provide your membership registration number.
- You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application. Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
Provide a 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.
- To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
Person Specification
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.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working within Primary Healthcare.
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional and specialist knowledge in Primary Healthcare acquired through post graduate degree/ diploma or actively working towards this and can demonstrate equivalent level of competence and experience in clinical assessment and diagnosis.
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training.
Desirable
- Must be in date for Basic Life Support (BLS) Anaphylaxis, Automated External Defibrillation (AED) Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Safeguarding Level 3 (Children and Adult depending on population at risk) or willingness to undertake training.
- Registered non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake training.
Registrations and Memberships
Essential
- Registered nurse on Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register.
- Please provide your membership registration number.
- You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application. Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
Provide a 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.
- To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.
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).
