Job summary
Are you looking for a better quality of life, no nights and no weekends. Then Defence
Primary Health Care is the place for you. We can offer full time employment with all
benefits of NHS continuing service without the unsociable element offering a better
work life balance.
We are looking to recruit a Band 7 Senior Practice Nurse who actively demonstrates
effective decision making and projects personality and character to motivate, guide
and support members of the multi-disciplinary team to achieve desired end results.
This is a permanent full time role offering 37.5 hours per week. Does this sound like
the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Benefits:
- NHS Pension
- Free parking
- Access to gym
- Access to Pay-As-You-Dine facilities
- Inclusive working environment
- Learning and development opportunities
Main duties of the job
The primary function of the Band 7 Senior Practice Nurse within DPHC is to ensure
the safe and effective delivery of nursing care. To provide effective clinical care
through history taking, examination, diagnosing and prescribing to patients. Band 7
Senior Practice Nurse is responsible for all nursing services within the facilities.
Our
facilities are currently networked and you will manage all nursing staff in
collaboration with serving Military nurses and work closely with practice managers
and General Practitioners to ensure that nurses are providing evidence based
practice and ensure preventative measures to chronic disease are identified and that
active health promotion is delivered.
You will mentor junior nurses, medics and
Healthcare Assistants within the network from all disciplines and assist with setting
objectives and achieving good health outcomes to support the delivery of care to
ensure maximum deployability across the region.
You provide visible leadership of the nursing team and ensure that there is a vision
and direction for the team to work towards achieving.
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:
- Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to design a service that satisfies legal and operational requirements and ensure efficient supply of all healthcare elements to an exemplary level.
- Working collaboratively to ensure that Service Personnel (SP) remain at optimum fitness and are fully ready to deploy.
- Participating in all aspects of recruitment and personnel management including appraisal and objective settings.
- Monitoring and review standards of care within their facilities and identify any training needs or gaps in service and develop and implement training to meet the population needs.
- Adhering to military, local and national safeguarding procedures and ensure that any risks are acted upon and reported promptly.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further
information.
The selection at sift stage will be based on your application.
We
also require a 10 minute presentation - What does effective leadership mean when you are
responsible for a change management programme? at interview.
At interview, you will be tested against the following Technical Skill:
- NHS Core - NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core - NHSC2 - Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC3 - Health, Safety and Security
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core NHSC5 - Quality
- NHS Core NHSC6 - Equality and Diversity
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge,
experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV.
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 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.
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.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
- Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to design a service that satisfies legal and operational requirements and ensure efficient supply of all healthcare elements to an exemplary level.
- Working collaboratively to ensure that Service Personnel (SP) remain at optimum fitness and are fully ready to deploy.
- Participating in all aspects of recruitment and personnel management including appraisal and objective settings.
- Monitoring and review standards of care within their facilities and identify any training needs or gaps in service and develop and implement training to meet the population needs.
- Adhering to military, local and national safeguarding procedures and ensure that any risks are acted upon and reported promptly.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further
information.
The selection at sift stage will be based on your application.
We
also require a 10 minute presentation - What does effective leadership mean when you are
responsible for a change management programme? at interview.
At interview, you will be tested against the following Technical Skill:
- NHS Core - NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core - NHSC2 - Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC3 - Health, Safety and Security
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core NHSC5 - Quality
- NHS Core NHSC6 - Equality and Diversity
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge,
experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV.
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 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.
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 with active registration with the NMC.
- Advanced Practice Nurse Qualification / post graduate diploma in Advance Practice or successful accreditation with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) or actively working towards this.
- Experience at Agenda for Change (AfC) 6 or equivalent working within Primary Healthcare.
- Driving Licence
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse with active registration with the NMC.
- Advanced Practice Nurse Qualification / post graduate diploma in Advance Practice or successful accreditation with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) or actively working towards this.
- Experience at Agenda for Change (AfC) 6 or equivalent working within Primary Healthcare.
- Driving Licence
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).
