Job summary
Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.
Are you a Physiotherapist looking for a fantastic role, working alongside the military, that offers numerous benefits and opportunities for career development in a phenomenal team? We are looking for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our
welcoming team of dedicated Military and civilian health care professionals and
Administrative staff. This post is located at Larkhill which supports a
patient population in excess of 4500.
DPHC is a vibrant and fast paced organisation that seeks to sustain and improve the operational efficiency of injured service personnel by provision of high-quality targeted rehabilitation.
This post will be 17.5 hours a week, requests to work flexibly will be considered, taking into account business needs.
Does this sound like the role for you?
We offer the following employee benefits:
- An inclusive working environment
- Access to a gym
- Free parking
- An NHS pension
Support by Team lead in your personal and clinical
development
Opportunities to
develop the Service
Study leave Allocation
Excellent rehab setting and facilities to maximise your
autonomous Evidence-Based Practice input with patients
Local Amenities
- Friendly Motivated experienced
team
- A culture encouraging diversity and inclusion
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will give full support to the Line Manager in ensuring the provision of a comprehensive and
professional physiotherapy/rehabilitation service for entitled personnel.
This will include undertaking
highly skilled and specialist work in the musculo-skeletal/sports and training injury area including
group therapy.
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 a high standard of physiotherapy delivery to Service personnel including highly
specialist interventions in the muscular-skeletal/sports and training injury environment
- Providing a positive caring environment, in which patients can expect a high-quality
professional service
- working closely with other rehabilitation professionals including military Exercise Rehabilitation
Instructors to provide tailored physical rehabilitation programs, including group therapy sessions
- Ensureing high standards of administration of physiotherapy care within the department in both,
allocation of patients to therapists and other multidisciplinary team members and referrals to
review clinics
Please pay particular attention to the attached job description and person specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
Many of our practices are networked and linked to provide
support to each other . On Occasion within your planned working schedule you
may be required to work at the linked practice site . In these situations ,
travel time and cost will be allowed for . Therefore a Driving Licence is
required
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 tested against the following technical skills:
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
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.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form. Please make sure no personal details are included.
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 copy and paste the above link into your browser)
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.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
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.
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.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
- Providing a high standard of physiotherapy delivery to Service personnel including highly
specialist interventions in the muscular-skeletal/sports and training injury environment
- Providing a positive caring environment, in which patients can expect a high-quality
professional service
- working closely with other rehabilitation professionals including military Exercise Rehabilitation
Instructors to provide tailored physical rehabilitation programs, including group therapy sessions
- Ensureing high standards of administration of physiotherapy care within the department in both,
allocation of patients to therapists and other multidisciplinary team members and referrals to
review clinics
Please pay particular attention to the attached job description and person specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
Many of our practices are networked and linked to provide
support to each other . On Occasion within your planned working schedule you
may be required to work at the linked practice site . In these situations ,
travel time and cost will be allowed for . Therefore a Driving Licence is
required
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 tested against the following technical skills:
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
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.
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form. Please make sure no personal details are included.
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 copy and paste the above link into your browser)
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.
Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.
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.
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.
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
Qualifications
Essential
- Member of the Chartered society of Physiotherapists (MCSP)
- State registered Physiotherapist and care professionals council (HCPC)
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy plus additional specialist training or experience to post graduate diploma level or equivalent.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Member of the Chartered society of Physiotherapists (MCSP)
- State registered Physiotherapist and care professionals council (HCPC)
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy plus additional specialist training or experience to post graduate diploma level or equivalent.
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.
