Band 7 Senior Practice Nurse

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

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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 a multidisciplinary primary healthcare team (MDT) delivering primary healthcare nursing including elements of occupational health. We are looking to recruit a self-motivated Band 7 Senior Practice Nurse who is able to work independently and autonomously within our friendly Primary Health Care team at Station Medical Centre in RAF Honington. This position is also the lead for the Valiant Combined Practice Network consisting of RAF Honington and RAF Marham.

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!

We offer the following employee benefits:

NHS Pension
Free parking
Access to gym
Shop and Cafe
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.

Date posted

31 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year Pro Rata for Part Time

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

K0003-24-0275

Job locations

Station Medical Centre

RAF Honington

Bury St Edmunds

IP31 1EE

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

Accountable for the direction of clinical delivery including managing, motivating, supervising, and allocating resource and time to ensure optimum clinical delivery.
Line management of civilian and military healthcare staff (where applicable).
Ensures maximum optimisation of staff availability and clinical delivery.
Will be expected to travel to other sites as required.
Collaborates with the RNA to ensure that the appropriate professional and managerial structures exist to support delivery of service and are in line with DPHC vision and nursing agenda.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties before applying for this role.

Applicants that are invited to interview will be required to present a 10 min presentation on the following question: What does effective leadership mean when you are responsible for a change management programme?

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.

The selection at sift stage will be based on your application. At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Technical Skills:

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

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.

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 following link to our YouTube channel for on 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

Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

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.

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.

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

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.

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

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 however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. 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.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative,<a href=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans/>Making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans</a>

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 willnot sponsora visa. It is thereforeNOTopen 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.

The MoD 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 MoD should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number, of Defence Establishments.

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)

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.