NHS Band 6 Practice Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties for this role will include but are not limited to:

• Patient and client care such as providing expert clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met.
• Planning and organisational responsibilities.
• Providing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective and individualised patient care.
• Managing the care of patients with chronic illnesses e.g. Asthma, Diabetes, Heart disease and hypertension ensuring continued maintenance of the Chronic Disease Register.
• Undertaking preventative health programmes such as travel and vaccination clinics and new patients screening.
• Policy development and service/quality improvement.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for a full list of duties.

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.

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

NHS Core- NHSC1 - Communication

NHS Core - NHSC - Personal & people development

NHS Core - NHSC3 Health, safety & security

NHS Core - NHSC4 - Service improvement

NHS Core - NHSC5 - Quality

NHS Core - NHSC6 - Equality and diversity

NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB1 - Promotion of Health & Wellbeing

NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning

NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB3 Protection of Health & Wellbeing

NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning

NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK1 Information Processing

HS Information & Knowledge NHS IK2 Information Collection & Analysis

NHS General NHS G6 People Management

Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.

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 note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.

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your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.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.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

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. 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.

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.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme 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.

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.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience working within Primary Healthcare
• Experience of leading and promoting health and well-being clinics i.e. smoking cessation, weight management, alcohol misuse, sexual health
• Experience of providing care to patients with chronic illnesses e.g.
• Asthma, Family Planning, Diabetes, CHD and hypertension ensuring continued maintenance of the Chronic Disease Register (dependant on population at risk)

Desirable

• Experience in occupational health and military occupational health and musculoskeletal medicine

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse on part 1 of the NMC register
• Learning and assessing in practice qualification of equivalent practice assessors 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).

Employer details

Employer name

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Address

Invicta Park Barracks

Maidstone

Kent

ME14 2NA

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence (Opens in a new tab)