Job summary
Here at Defence Medical Services (DMS) we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.
Are you a motivated individual who strives to deliver excellent healthcare?
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a large organisation working as part of a professional encouraging team?
Do you want to be part of a great organisation which has great additional benefits? Look no further!
DMS are looking for a Band 8A National Clinical Pathway Manager for Mental Healthbased at Whittington.
This position offers 37.5 hours per week.
Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Benefits Include:
- Free Parking
- Access to Gym
- Access to NHS Pension
- A culture encouraging Inclusion and Diversity
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be a highly experienced, motivated,
flexible and dynamic clinical leader who is able to lead on the development and delivery of a
specialised occupational mental health service. The post holder will be accountable for the design, implementation, monitoring, and quality assurance of Mental Health care pathways The role also involvesdesigning and providing specialist high-quality person-centred care which always considers peoples safety, privacy and dignity using extensive clinical knowledge that is evidence based.
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:
- Designing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective care pathways that focus on the individual needs of the patient in order to deliver optimal functional recovery, maximise employability and restore operational deployability.
- Monitoring clinical effectiveness and timeliness of care pathways in order to set the baseline for systematic service improvement.
- Ensuring patient safety and confidentiality is maintained In accordance with (IAW) Strategic Command (StratCom) and DPHC policy and guidance e.g. Caldicott, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Equipment Care, Health and Safety and Safeguarding.
- Being responsible for the generation and collation of reports on own practice and that of team on service delivery related to local and national targets. Provide monthly reports to Healthcare Governance and other relevant meetings.
- Being involved proactively in developing strategies and undertaking activities that monitor and improve the quality of healthcare and the effectiveness of their own and others practice.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further details.
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 for interview.
Requests to work part time will be considered, taking into account business needs. 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 your CV and that you have saved it.
At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Technical Skills:
- NHSC1 - Communication
- NHSC4 - Service improvement
- HWB3 - protection of
health and wellbeing
- NHS General NHS G6 - People Management
- NHS Information & Knowledge - NHS IK2 - Information Collection & Analysis
A short presentation will be required at interview stage, the subject is to be confirmed.
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. (You will need to copy and paste the link into your browser).
Defence Medical Services - YouTube
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, Making the Civil
Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans - GOV.UK (www.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.
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 ofall 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
- Designing safe, evidence-based, cost-effective care pathways that focus on the individual needs of the patient in order to deliver optimal functional recovery, maximise employability and restore operational deployability.
- Monitoring clinical effectiveness and timeliness of care pathways in order to set the baseline for systematic service improvement.
- Ensuring patient safety and confidentiality is maintained In accordance with (IAW) Strategic Command (StratCom) and DPHC policy and guidance e.g. Caldicott, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Equipment Care, Health and Safety and Safeguarding.
- Being responsible for the generation and collation of reports on own practice and that of team on service delivery related to local and national targets. Provide monthly reports to Healthcare Governance and other relevant meetings.
- Being involved proactively in developing strategies and undertaking activities that monitor and improve the quality of healthcare and the effectiveness of their own and others practice.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further details.
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 for interview.
Requests to work part time will be considered, taking into account business needs. 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 your CV and that you have saved it.
At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Technical Skills:
- NHSC1 - Communication
- NHSC4 - Service improvement
- HWB3 - protection of
health and wellbeing
- NHS General NHS G6 - People Management
- NHS Information & Knowledge - NHS IK2 - Information Collection & Analysis
A short presentation will be required at interview stage, the subject is to be confirmed.
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. (You will need to copy and paste the link into your browser).
Defence Medical Services - YouTube
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, Making the Civil
Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans - GOV.UK (www.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.
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 ofall 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
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist (OT) or Psychologist with significant post registration experience.
- Experience in an operational role within mental health.
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.
Registration details
Essential
- Please provide your membership registration details. You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting you application. Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist (OT) or Psychologist with significant post registration experience.
- Experience in an operational role within mental health.
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.
Registration details
Essential
- Please provide your membership registration details. You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting you application. Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
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).
