About this role
Job summary
Welcome to Defence Healthcare Group (DHRG), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation providing excellent healthcare to our entitled personnel.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) provides an occupationally focused Health Care Service. Our Specialist Occupational Health (OH) services encompass the medical aspects of an individual's fitness for work, to include employment, deployment, rehabilitation, provision of advice to commanders, assessment of health on leaving the Armed Forces and (Army-only) ill health retirement.
It is a key contributor to force preparation, force multiplication and force sustainment, and is a common thread through all health and wellbeing interventions.
We are looking to recruit a dynamic, organised and enthusiastic Band 7 Occupational Health Clinician to join our vibrant and fast paced organisation that seeks to sustain and improve the operational efficiency of injured service personnel by supporting the delivery of a peripatetic occupational health service. This position is open to applicants from Nurses and Occupational Therapists as long as the qualifications and memberships detailed are held in full, prior to submitting your application.
The vacant post is full time, working 37.5 hours per week.
Benefits include:
An inclusive working environmentProfessional registration fees re-imbursedAn NHS pensionFree parking
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will support the delivery of a peripatetic Occupational Health (OH) service which requires travel between the base location and the assigned units.
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
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 Chain of Command (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 Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties.
Selection Process:
The selection at sift stage will be based on 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 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.
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.
At interview you will be tested against the following Framework:
NHS Core - NHSC1 - CommunicationNHS Core - NHSC2 - Personal & People DevelopmentNHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB2 - Assessment & Care PlanningNHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB7 - Interventions & TreatmentNHS General - NHS G6 - People ManagementYou will also be required to provide a short presentation of between 5 and 10 minutes, with the title of 'The value of work on health and recovery'.
When choosing your Technical Skills examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences.
The interview may consist of a mix of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios.
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.
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.
Current certificate of Rubella, measles, and Varicella immunity.
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 [email protected].
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.
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.
Qualifications Essential
Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate study relating to practice area.
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.
Registrations and Memberships Essential
Registered Nurse or Occupational Therapist with current registration with an appropriate governing and regulatory body (National Midwifery Council (NMC) / Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)). 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.
Licences Essential
Current driving licence. This role is peripatetic and cannot be delivered using public transport.
Experience Essential
Current and in-depth clinical and management experience within Occupational Health. Evidence of continuous professional development and the practical application of new skills to the workplace.
Desirable
Experience of Armed Forces healthcare, either in the single Service or tri-service environment.
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).
Employer details Employer name Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)
Address Aldershot Centre For Health
Hospital Hill
Aldershot
Hampshire
GU11 1AY
Employer's website https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence (Opens in a new tab)