Job summary
At Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel! We are looking for a hardworking, committed Band 6 Practice Nurse to come join our supportive and welcoming team at Dering Lines, Brecon, Powys.
The position offers 27.5 hours per week.
Could this be the role for you?
We offer the following employee benefits:
- NHS Pension
- Free parking
- Inclusive working environment
Main duties of the job
The Ministry of
Defence now advertises for a Band 6 Practice Nurse in England and Wales. The successful candidate will be working as part of a multidisciplinary primary
healthcare team delivering primary healthcare nursing including elements of
occupational health. The post holder 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.
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 of the role include but are not limited to:
- Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care.
- Undertaking preventative health programmes e.g., travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry.
- Managing 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.
- Undertaking technical nursing treatments and procedures for patients complex/specialist healthcare needs (e.g., wound care, sutures removal, electrocardiogram (ECGs), Cytology, Audiometry, Ear Care.
- Undertaking men and women health screening and education along with provision of family planning services and sexual health.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
The selection at sift stage will be based on your application.
The sift will be completed within 5 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.
- 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 Information & Knowledge - NHS IK2 -Information Collection & Analysis
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.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your application and that you have saved it.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
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.
We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.
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.
The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and 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 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-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
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.
Defence Medical
Services - YouTube - Please note if you are viewing this on NHS Jobs, you may
need to copy and paste the following in to your browser: https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed
Defence Medical Services - YouTube
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
- Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, and individualised patient care.
- Undertaking preventative health programmes e.g., travel and vaccination clinics, new patients screening, audiometry.
- Managing 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.
- Undertaking technical nursing treatments and procedures for patients complex/specialist healthcare needs (e.g., wound care, sutures removal, electrocardiogram (ECGs), Cytology, Audiometry, Ear Care.
- Undertaking men and women health screening and education along with provision of family planning services and sexual health.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
The selection at sift stage will be based on your application.
The sift will be completed within 5 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.
- 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 Information & Knowledge - NHS IK2 -Information Collection & Analysis
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.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your application and that you have saved it.
If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
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.
We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.
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.
The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and 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 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-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.
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.
Defence Medical
Services - YouTube - Please note if you are viewing this on NHS Jobs, you may
need to copy and paste the following in to your browser: https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed
Defence Medical Services - YouTube
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse on Part 1 of the NMC register.
- Professional and specialist knowledge in primary healthcare acquired through post graduate degree/diploma or actively working towards this OR can demonstrate equivalent level of competence and experience. Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training.
- Quality improvement methodology or willingness to undertake training
- 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.
- To be proficient in relevant IT systems subject to appropriate training being provided - Registered non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake training
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse on Part 1 of the NMC register.
- Professional and specialist knowledge in primary healthcare acquired through post graduate degree/diploma or actively working towards this OR can demonstrate equivalent level of competence and experience. Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training.
- Quality improvement methodology or willingness to undertake training
- 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.
- To be proficient in relevant IT systems subject to appropriate training being provided - Registered non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake training
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).
