Job summary
We would like you to join us and apply your psychological knowledge and skills to an unique military environment. Did you know that you can support serving members of the Armed Forces as a civilian clinician but maintain your NHS pension, AfC pay and leave benefits?
You will be based at DCMH Stanford Hall, offering clinical advice
and consultation on clients psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues
and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional
guidelines and the overall
framework of the teams policies and procedures.
In your core clinical role you will work with multi-disciplinary teams of military and civilian mental healthcare colleagues. Leading in the development of the Pain Psychology Service and undertake
service development within the Pain Service.
We'll encourage you to pursue your own areas of clinical interest, deliver supervision, audit, research, service development & training activities. Discover how rewarding it is to apply your skills with a new client group!
The post is Part Time offering 30 hours per week, 7.5 hours a day over 4 days, Mon-Thurs.
Main duties of the job
DMRC Stanford
Hall is a part of Strategic Command. The
Unit provides a rehabilitation service for the Defence Medical Services
(DMS). Within DMRC rehabilitation teams
include Complex Trauma, Neurological Services, Force Generation (Spines and
Upper Quadrant, Specialist Rehabilitation (rehab), Lower Limbs). The pain service is a key element to that
service provision and patients rehabilitation.
Patients seen at DMRC have a variety of conditions and are rehabilitated
by a consultant led interdisciplinary team (IDT).
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
- To act as a specialist resource to the DMRC.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the Pain Service, PWS and DMRC.
- To provide clinical and professional supervision to trainees undertaking Doctoral training.
- Providing training to staff within the service involved in the delivery of psychologically based interventions.
- Providing specialist psychological research expertise to the service.
- Such assessments are crucial in informing the determination of individuals medical employment standards (MES) and, therefore, for assessing their fitness for duty and/or continuing employment within the Armed Services
- To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence, and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors
For further information please see the attached Terms of Reference
Selection Process
At application stage you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours:
Leadership
Experience:
- Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history and previous skills and experience.
- Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it, making sure that any reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting your application.
- Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.
At interview you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours and Technical Skills:
- Leadership
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHS General NHS G6 People Management
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
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.
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/watch?v=YEpdNWKQSRI
The sift will be completed within 10 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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-sgdmsresourcing@mod.gov.uk.
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 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
- To act as a specialist resource to the DMRC.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the Pain Service, PWS and DMRC.
- To provide clinical and professional supervision to trainees undertaking Doctoral training.
- Providing training to staff within the service involved in the delivery of psychologically based interventions.
- Providing specialist psychological research expertise to the service.
- Such assessments are crucial in informing the determination of individuals medical employment standards (MES) and, therefore, for assessing their fitness for duty and/or continuing employment within the Armed Services
- To develop psychological formulations of presenting problems or situations that integrate information from assessments within a coherent framework that draws upon psychological theory and evidence, and which incorporates interpersonal, societal, cultural and biological factors
For further information please see the attached Terms of Reference
Selection Process
At application stage you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours:
Leadership
Experience:
- Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history and previous skills and experience.
- Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in your CV and that you have saved it, making sure that any reference to your personal details have been removed from your CV prior to submitting your application.
- Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.
At interview you will be assessed against the following:
Behaviours and Technical Skills:
- Leadership
- NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
- NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
- NHS General NHS G6 People Management
- NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
- NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
- NHS Health & Wellbeing HWB6 Assessment & Treatment Planning
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.
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/watch?v=YEpdNWKQSRI
The sift will be completed within 10 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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-sgdmsresourcing@mod.gov.uk.
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 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
Experience
Essential
- Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 8a) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologists.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising responsibility for clients psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Relevant prior experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in adult mental health or an associated client group where the experience gained is relevant and transferable.
- Experience of clinical research (either implementation or supervision)
- Experience of teaching and training
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts (including military).
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 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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Other related academic qualifications to masters or Doctorate level.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Information Technology Competent.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist (Band 8a) and able to evidence appropriate knowledge and experience in practice to enable the post holder to clinically supervise trainee clinical psychologists.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising responsibility for clients psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Relevant prior experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist in adult mental health or an associated client group where the experience gained is relevant and transferable.
- Experience of clinical research (either implementation or supervision)
- Experience of teaching and training
Desirable
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts (including military).
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 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.
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Other related academic qualifications to masters or Doctorate level.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Information Technology Competent.
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).
