Job summary
Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), we are inclusive and
dedicated, working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel!
We are looking for an Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our welcoming
team of dedicated military and civilian healthcare professionals and
administrative staff located at the Benson Group Practice. This full
time 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 (which can be during the working day if it fits
working hours)
- Fortnightly In-Service Training and CPD time, AND quarterly Regional In Service Training
- Support by the 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
- Access to NHS Pension
- A large friendly, motivated and experienced team
- A culture encouraging Inclusion and Diversity
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be giving 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 musculoskeletal/sports and training injury area including group therapy.
The Benson Group Practice services 2 sites, Benson and Abingdon
and there may be requirement for the successful candidate to
provide a service to both locations.
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
The main duties 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.
- Performing highly skilled physiotherapeutic assessment of patients
referred by the Medical Officer (MO) or regional physiotherapy teams.
Presentations may be diverse including complex and acute/chronic
physical and psychological conditions plus sports injuries. To use clinical
reasoning skills to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis.
- Managing and prioritising own clinical caseload efficiently
and effectively.
- Communicating effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for
treatment, good understanding of their conditions and maximise their
rehabilitation potential. Patients may have barriers to communication
e.g. English as their second language.
- Formulating, developing and delivering a specialised individualised
treatment programme based upon evidence based practice, manual
assessment and appropriate clinical reasoning.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person
Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
Selection Process 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.
At interview, you will be tested against the following behaviours and NHS Technical Skills:
- Leadership
- Working together
- Communicating and influencing
- Managing a quality service
- Delivering at pace
- Changing and improving
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
- NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHSC6 Equality and Diversity
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB5 Provision of Care
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
- NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK1 Information Processing
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. Failure to provide evidence of
your immunity 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.
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
The main duties 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.
- Performing highly skilled physiotherapeutic assessment of patients
referred by the Medical Officer (MO) or regional physiotherapy teams.
Presentations may be diverse including complex and acute/chronic
physical and psychological conditions plus sports injuries. To use clinical
reasoning skills to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis.
- Managing and prioritising own clinical caseload efficiently
and effectively.
- Communicating effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for
treatment, good understanding of their conditions and maximise their
rehabilitation potential. Patients may have barriers to communication
e.g. English as their second language.
- Formulating, developing and delivering a specialised individualised
treatment programme based upon evidence based practice, manual
assessment and appropriate clinical reasoning.
Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person
Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.
Selection Process 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.
At interview, you will be tested against the following behaviours and NHS Technical Skills:
- Leadership
- Working together
- Communicating and influencing
- Managing a quality service
- Delivering at pace
- Changing and improving
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
- NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHSC6 Equality and Diversity
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB5 Provision of Care
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
- NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK1 Information Processing
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. Failure to provide evidence of
your immunity 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.
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
Please 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.
Memberships and registrations
Essential
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (MCSP).
- State Registered Physiotherapist Healthcare Professionals Council (HCPC)
Registration details
Essential
- Please provide your membership registration. 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.
Person Specification
Please 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.
Memberships and registrations
Essential
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (MCSP).
- State Registered Physiotherapist Healthcare Professionals Council (HCPC)
Registration details
Essential
- Please provide your membership registration. 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.
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).
