Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Band 7 Mental Health Nurse

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Job summary

Are you a Band 7 Mental Health Nurse, looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military, which offers numerous benefits and opportunities? If the answer is yes, then we are looking to appoint a professional and patient focused individual with a strong commitment to providing a high-quality service to work within our friendly and welcoming team at DMRC, Stanford-on-Soar, Loughborough.

The vacant post is full time working 37.5 hours per week. Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

Benefits:

Access to learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
Numerous opportunities for continuous professional development
NHS Pension
Free Parking
Swimming Pool and Gym Access
9 Hole Golf Course
Woodland Walk
Small Shop and Canteen on Site

Main duties of the job

The Mental Health Nurse will be required to ensure the systematic provision of high-quality mental health patient management. This will be through risk assessment, and mental health assessment and treatment. Facilitating liaison between the Departments of Community Mental Health (DCMHs), the Psychological Wellbeing Service (PWS), and all teams within DMRC to maintain the patient journey and patient safety. To provide specialist knowledge and implementation of care pathways and ensure their integration across the IDT.

This role will work within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct and adhere to all NMC standards, national, and Ministry of Defence (MOD) Policies and Guidelines.

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

08 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year Per Annum (pay rise pending)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

K0003-25-0163

Job locations

DMRC

Stanford Hall

Stanford on Soar

Loughborough

LE12 5QW

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Provide Mental Health assessment, routine and urgent, including risk assessment and formulation of the mental health and treatment needs for referred patients, acting as care coordinator. Provide recommendations for maintaining maximal employment, applying an occupational health matrix.
Make decisions to determine if patients require further intervention from the mental health teams (DCMH/PWS), including admissions to inpatient services.
Participate and advise in the pre-admission assessment pathway, facilitate patient pathway to DCMH to ensure continuity of care in the patient pathway.
Participate in the provision of mental health and wellbeing promotion activities in collaboration with the rehab teams in DMRC.
Direct line-management of junior staff within the PWS which may include both clinical and non-clinical roles. This includes responsibility for the annual appraisal process.
Provision of clinical supervision to other clinicians with the PWS and on a case-by-case basis to clinicians working elsewhere in DMRC and broader Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) services (e.g., DCMHs).

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

Selection Process:

The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Behaviours-

Making Effective Decisions
Working Together
Developing Self and Others
NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB2 Assessment & Care Planning
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB7 Interventions & Treatment
NHS General NHS G6 People Management
NHS General NHS G1 Learning & Development

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

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.

https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

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 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.

When choosing your Behaviour/Technical Skills examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.

For details on our complaints procedure, please refer to the attached Important Information.