Job summary
Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), we are an inclusive and dedicated organisation working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel!
We are looking to recruit a dynamic, organised, and enthusiastic Band 5 Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor to work within our team located at HMS Nelson Sickbay, Queen Street, Portsmouth, PO1 3HH.
DPHC is a vibrant and fast paced organisation which strives to provide the best primary healthcare to members of the Armed Forces and other entitled personnel. DPHC delivers a clinical service in accordance with NHS Standards and Ministry of Defence policies.
This is a full-time position at 37.5 hrs per week. Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs. Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.
Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you.
You will feel valued as an Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor within DPHC, receiving access to outstanding rewards and employee benefits including:
- On-site parking
- NHS Pension
- Inclusive working environment
- Learning and development opportunities
Main duties of the job
As the successful candidate, you will be responsible for giving full
support to the Line Manager in ensuring the provision of a comprehensive and
professional exercise based rehabilitation service for entitled personnel. This
will include undertaking highly skilled and specialist work in the
musculoskeletal/sports and training injury area.
You will work as part of a multidisciplinary primary healthcare team
delivering elements of occupational health within the Group Practice. The
Practice is formed of 6 sites and there is an expectation the ERI will be
required to work across the sites.
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 will include, but are not limited to:
- Performing clinical assessments, crafting, and implementing safe and progressive exercise treatment schedules for all patients after the MO/Physio has made a diagnosis.
- Communicating effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for treatment, good understanding of their conditions and maximise their rehabilitation potential.
- Assisting in identifying training needs, coordinating in-service training, and assisting with cleaning schedules.
- Managing groups of injured personnel and applying exercise based rehabilitation protocols accordingly.
- Supporting and attending weekly and monthly Special Interest Group and Clinical Governance Meetings where audit, research, service and policy development and presentations are conducted within the multidisciplinary team environment.
For further information of duties and responsibilities please see full job description and person specification attached.
Selection Process:
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Technical Skills:
- NHS Core - NHSC1 - Communication
- NHS Core - NHSC3 - Health, Safety & Security
- NHS Core - NHSC4 - Service Improvement
- NHS Core - NHSC5 - Quality
- NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB6 - Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB7 - Interventions & Treatment
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications, and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
Further Information:
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 copy and paste 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.
https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed
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.
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.
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.
This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans
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 contactdbscivpers-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 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties will include, but are not limited to:
- Performing clinical assessments, crafting, and implementing safe and progressive exercise treatment schedules for all patients after the MO/Physio has made a diagnosis.
- Communicating effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for treatment, good understanding of their conditions and maximise their rehabilitation potential.
- Assisting in identifying training needs, coordinating in-service training, and assisting with cleaning schedules.
- Managing groups of injured personnel and applying exercise based rehabilitation protocols accordingly.
- Supporting and attending weekly and monthly Special Interest Group and Clinical Governance Meetings where audit, research, service and policy development and presentations are conducted within the multidisciplinary team environment.
For further information of duties and responsibilities please see full job description and person specification attached.
Selection Process:
The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Technical Skills:
- NHS Core - NHSC1 - Communication
- NHS Core - NHSC3 - Health, Safety & Security
- NHS Core - NHSC4 - Service Improvement
- NHS Core - NHSC5 - Quality
- NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB6 - Assessment & Treatment Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing - HWB7 - Interventions & Treatment
Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications, and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
Further Information:
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 copy and paste 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.
https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed
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.
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.
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.
This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans
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 contactdbscivpers-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 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.
Person Specification
Registration Details
Essential
- Please provide your membership registration number.
- You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
- Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
Experience
Essential
- Must have relevant experience in the assessment and exercise based treatment of musculosketal disorders, sport injuries, and orthopaedic conditions
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Graduate in Sports Rehabilitation and maintain Full Graduate Membership of the British Association of Sports Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT).
- OR BSc Graduate in Sports Therapy and maintain Full Graduate Membership of the Society of Sports Therapy (SST).
- OR Ex-military ERIs who have completed the JSERI Course. Where an ex-military ERI is employed within the Civil Service, they must have completed a return to clinical practice (RCP), prior to employment or within the first three months of employment.
- OR BSc(Hons) in Physiotherapy and be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
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.
Person Specification
Registration Details
Essential
- Please provide your membership registration number.
- You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
- Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.
Experience
Essential
- Must have relevant experience in the assessment and exercise based treatment of musculosketal disorders, sport injuries, and orthopaedic conditions
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc Graduate in Sports Rehabilitation and maintain Full Graduate Membership of the British Association of Sports Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT).
- OR BSc Graduate in Sports Therapy and maintain Full Graduate Membership of the Society of Sports Therapy (SST).
- OR Ex-military ERIs who have completed the JSERI Course. Where an ex-military ERI is employed within the Civil Service, they must have completed a return to clinical practice (RCP), prior to employment or within the first three months of employment.
- OR BSc(Hons) in Physiotherapy and be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
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.
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).
